1. Our Constitution is considered a living document because it is adaptable or flexible, it is still in use, it still works, and it is purposefully not specific so it changes with the country and economy.
2. The seven principles of the Constitution are republicanism, separation of powers, limited government, popular sovereignty, federalism, checks and balances, and individual rights.
3. The people give the government its power. This concept is called popular sovereignty.
4. Republicanism is the system where people exercise their power by voting for their political representatives.
5. Federalism is splitting the power between the federal and state governments.
6. The framers of the Constitution separated the government into branches because they did not want one person or group to have too much power and become corrupt.
7. The three branches of government are the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch.
8. There are many checks and balances included in the Constitution. This means that each branch has certain powers or controls over the other branches so the branches need to work together to accomplish a common goal or to get anything done. The checks and balances also make sure that no one branch has too much power.
9. When the government tries to pass a law, each branch of government checks the power of the other branches. The Legislative Branch, or Congress, debates the bills, approves them, and then passes them over to the Executive Branch. The president, or the head of the Executive Branch, then signs or vetoes the law. If the president signs the law, then the Executive Branch begins to implement it. After this, the Judicial Branch interprets the law and rules whether or not the new law follows the principles and ideals of the Constitution. This is how each branch checks the power of the others when a law is created.
10. In the Constitution, our individual rights are protected in the Bill of Rights.
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2. The seven principles of the Constitution are republicanism, separation of powers, limited government, popular sovereignty, federalism, checks and balances, and individual rights.
3. The people give the government its power. This concept is called popular sovereignty.
4. Republicanism is the system where people exercise their power by voting for their political representatives.
5. Federalism is splitting the power between the federal and state governments.
6. The framers of the Constitution separated the government into branches because they did not want one person or group to have too much power and become corrupt.
7. The three branches of government are the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch.
8. There are many checks and balances included in the Constitution. This means that each branch has certain powers or controls over the other branches so the branches need to work together to accomplish a common goal or to get anything done. The checks and balances also make sure that no one branch has too much power.
9. When the government tries to pass a law, each branch of government checks the power of the other branches. The Legislative Branch, or Congress, debates the bills, approves them, and then passes them over to the Executive Branch. The president, or the head of the Executive Branch, then signs or vetoes the law. If the president signs the law, then the Executive Branch begins to implement it. After this, the Judicial Branch interprets the law and rules whether or not the new law follows the principles and ideals of the Constitution. This is how each branch checks the power of the others when a law is created.
10. In the Constitution, our individual rights are protected in the Bill of Rights.
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12. In my opinion, the branch with the most power is the Executive Branch because they have power over the military which takes up a lot of our budget now, they implement the laws, and they give jobs to many people.
13. If I had to eliminate one of the branches of government, I would eliminate the Executive Branch, but I would keep the president because I think that the rest of the Executive Branch besides the president is always behind the scenes and they have no part in making laws.
13. If I had to eliminate one of the branches of government, I would eliminate the Executive Branch, but I would keep the president because I think that the rest of the Executive Branch besides the president is always behind the scenes and they have no part in making laws.