Review: Principles, Feds/anti, Responsibilities, Resolving Confl

The people are the source of all governmental authority.

• Limited Government 
• popular sovereignty
• federalism 
• separation of powers 

The President is responsible for executing, enforcing, and administering the law. 

• limited government 
• federalism 
• checks and balances 
• separation of powers 

Freedom of speech is protected in the First Amendment. The government may not take this right away from the people..

• Limited Government

• Separation of Powers

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federalism

Only Congress has the power to declare war. The President and the Supreme Court do not have that power.

• Limited Government

• Federalism

• Separation of Powers

• Judicial Review

"We the people of the United States..." 

• Judicial Review 
• Limited Government 
• Federalism 
• Popular Sovereignty

In Federalist 47, James Madison writes, “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”   Which principle of government do you think Madison proposed to stop this tyranny?

• Judicial Review
• Limited Government
• Separation of Powers
• Popular Sovereignty

The U.S. Government is divided into branches, each with independent powers and areas of responsibility so that the powers of one branch are not in conflict with the powers associated with the other branches.

• Separation of Powers

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federalism

• Judicial Review

Rule by the people.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federalism

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

Government power is restricted by the U.S. Constitution - it may only do what is written in the Constitution.

• Limited Government

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

The national government lets state and local governments supervise the public-school system.

This is an example of...

• limited government

• separation of powers

• federalism

• popular sovereignty