Constitution Test Prep Part 1

This principle is based on the idea that each branch of government can prevent the other branches of government from becoming tyrannical.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Checks and Balances

• Individual Rights

• Limited Government

The constitution has 3 branches of government with no one branch given all the power of government.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Limited Government

• Individual Rights

• Separation of Powers

A principle of the Constitution - A government in which the people (citizens) rule

• Popular Sovereignty

• Limited Government

• Separation of Powers

• Republicanism

The principle and belief that people exercise their power by voting for their political representatives

• Federalism

• Checks and Balances

• Republicanism

• Individual Rights

The principle in the constitution that power is divided and shared by a national (central) government and state governments (smaller political units)

• Individual Rights

• Federalism

• Republicanism

• Separation of Powers

This principle in the Constitution means that everyone in the U.S. government (even the most powerful) must obey the law

• Checks and Balances

• Popular Sovereignty

• Limited Government

• Individual Rights

The Constitution through the Amendments found in the Bill of Rights and additional Amendments guarantees these:

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federalism

• Individual Rights

• Checks and Balances

What is the goal of the preamble of the Constitution?

• To set specific rights and liberties that citizens must have

• To explain why the Constitution is better than the Articles of Confederation

• To blast King George and British Tyranny

• To explain what the main goals of the new Constitution are

In Section 8 of Article 1, Powers 11, 12, and 13 granted to congress involve declaring war, raising and army, and providing a navy.  All of these powers are intended to?

• Form a more perfect union

• Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity

• Promote the general welfare

• Provide for the common defense

In Section 9 of article 1, Power 6 denied to Congress declares that there shall be no preferential treatment to the commerce (trade) and revenue (money) of one state over another.  This is example of:

• Promoting the general welfare

•  Providing for the common defense

• Forming a more perfect union

•  Insure Domestic Tranquility