Constitutional Principles 24 honors

Which principle is described below?

The root of the government's power stems from the willingness of the citizens to give up certain individual rights for the common good. The citizens rule the government through their representatives.

• Popular Sovereignty (consent of the goverened)

• Federalism

• Rule of law

• Checks and Balances

Which principle addresses the concerns of Baron Charles de Montesquieu found below?

"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty." (Charles de Montesquieu)

• Representative Government (Republicanism)

• Individual Rights

• Separation of Powers (Checks and Balances)

• Federalsim

Which principle is described in the quote below?

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively." (U.S. Constitution)

• Rule of Law

• Independent Judiciary

• Separation of Powers

• Federalism

Which principle is referenced in the quote below?

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.” (James Madison, Federalist Papers #45)

• Rule of Law

• Separation of Powers

• Individual Rights

• Federalism

In the United States Constitution lies the Fourth Amendment. It stipulates that all searches by governmental authorities or law enforcement can only be done with a warrant. Which principle is this an example of?

• Rule of Law

• Federalism

• Checks and Balances

• Representative Government (Republicanism)

Under this principle, the duties of governing are divided among 3 branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. These are covered in the first 3 Articles in the Constitution.

• Separation of Powers

• Federalism

• Checks & Balances

• Individual Rights

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution introduces one of the basic principles of government in the United States. An excerpt from the preamble to the U.S. Constitution is shown.

"We the People of the United States . . . do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

​Which basic principle of government is introduced in the Preamble?

• federalism

• Rule of Law

• popular sovereignty

• checks and balances

The power of judicial review vested in the Supreme Court gives them the ability to --

• review laws passed by Congress or actions of the President & declare them unconstitutional.

• review the Constitution and make laws.

• veto laws passed by Congress.

• impeach a president or member of Congress for doing something unconstitutional.

McCulloch v. Maryland was about whether a state could _______ a U.S. bank.

• tax

• issue

• nullify

• ratify

This Constitution, and the Laws of the 

United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. 

• Federalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Rule of Law

• Judicial Review