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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

US CONSTITUTION

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LIMITED Government

FEDERALISM

  • POWERS GOVERNMENT ARE DIVIDED BETWEEN NATIONAL AND THE STATE GOVERNMENT
  • Describes the practice whereby of a group of members that are bound together by agreement or covenant

INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY

  • SYSTEM JUDGES AND COURTS THAT SEPARATE FROM THE OTHER BRANCHES
  • This branch can can pressure or bribe the Supreme court

POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

  • THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER, AND ELECT THEIR LEADERS
  • The profile sovereignty in the opening phrase of preamble "we the people"

RULE OF LAW

  • A RULE APPLIED TO ALL PEOPLE
  • They say the laws in the constitution are he most important the country

SEPARATION OF POWERS/CHECKS BLANCES

  • DIVIDING THREE BRANCHES LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE
  • Framers did not want one branch branch to become more powerful then the other.

INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

  • PEOPLE HAVE RIGHTS TO SPEAK THEIR MIND WITHOUT HAVING TO FEAR BEING PUNISHED
  • When the constitution was written some people didn't want to pass it because it did not include rights for individual people.