Constitutional Principles

Which principle is this?

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”

• federalism

• popular sovereignty

• individualism

• separation of powers

“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.”

• judicial review

• checks and balances

• separation of powers

• limited government

“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.”

• checks and balances

• limited government

• separation of powers

• republicanism

“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness (invalid).”

• individual rights

• equal rights

• popular sovereignty

• republicanism

If Congress were to go beyond the delegated powers . . . if they were to make a law not warranted by the powers given in the Constitution, it would be considered by the judges as an infringement of the Constitution . . . They would declare it void.

• separation of power

• checks and balances

• federalism

• republicanism

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

• limited government

• individual rights

• popular sovereignty

• rule of law

"One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail."

• federalism

• rule of law

• checks and balances

• republicanism

"__________ is the ideology of governing a nation with an emphasis on liberty and the civic virtue practiced by citizens by protecting liberty and incorporating rule of law."

• federalism

• popular sovereignty

• republicanism

• individual rights

"My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution."

• separation of power

• checks and balances

• federalism

• republicanism

Which branches of government are associated with Article 1, Article II, Article III?

• judicial, legislative, executive.

• legislative, executive, judicial.

• executive, legislative, judicial.

• executive, judicial, legislative.