The Constitution of the United States
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The Constitution of
the
United States
Preamble
States the purpose of the Constitution
We the people of the United State, in
order to form a more perfect Union,
establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare,
secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and our posterity, do ordain
and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America.
Seven Principles of the
Constitution
1.Popular Sovereignty
2.Republicanism
3. Federalism
4. Separation of Powers
5. Checks and Balances
6. Limited Government
7. Individual Rights
1.Popular Sovereignty
a government in which the people
rule
The Preamble clearly spells out the
source of governments powers
“We the people…”
Republicanism
is the belief: The people exercise their
power by voting for their political
representative
The Preamble
Copy the following paragraph.
Please underline all the words as they are
shown.
The Preamble
• We the people of the United States, in
order to form a more perfect union,
establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare
and secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and our posterity, do ordain
and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America.
Preamble vocabulary
Copy the vocabulary word and the
synonyms. You do not need to copy the
definitions.
union
Blending, coming together, combination
The act of joining together people or
things
establish
Create, start, begin, set up
To start or set up something that is
intended to continue
justice
Fairness, fair play, morality
insure
Make certain, make sure
To make sure something will happen
domestic
home, household, family, national, internal
Happening within one country
tranquility
Peaceful, calm, quiet
common
General, universal, shared, everyone’s
Belonging to, or shared by two or more
people or things
promote
Endorse, encourage, support, sponsor
To encourage the growth and
development of something
general
universal, common, wide-ranging
Including all or nearly all the members of
a group
welfare
well-being, health, security, success
posterity
future generations
ordain
order, proclaim, command, establish
To order or establish something formally,
especially by law
Assignment
Rewrite the Preamble changing the
underlined words. It must make sense.
Read it out loud to yourself to make
sure. You can rearrange the words to
allow your paragraph to make sense.
Federalism
Division of power between states &
national government
Separation of Powers
Means division of basic government roles into
branches
each branch has its own set of powers
So that no one branch can has all the power
Separation of Powers
The divisions of power for each branch
can be found in:
Article 1, Article 2, & Article 3 of the
Constitution
Separation of Powers
United States
Constitution
Article 1
3
Legislative Branch
Branch
Congress makes
Court
laws
Article 2
Executive Branch
President enforces
laws
Article
Judicial
Supreme
interprets
Checks & Balances
Checks & Balances
How the Power are Evenly Distributive
Each branch of the government can exercise , checks, or control,
over the other branches
This helps to make sure the branch work together fairly
ONLY Congress can passes laws
President can check Congress by not
signing the Bill into law
Supreme Court can declare that law, passed
by Congress & signed by the President,
violates the Constitution
Limited Government
Power
Article 1 Section 9
The Constitution lists powers denied
Congress
Article 1 Section 10
Forbids the states to take certain actions
Limited Government
Power
“Rule of Law”
Everyone, citizen & powerful leaders
alike must obey the law
Individual Rights
How peoples person Freedoms are
protected
The Bill of Rights
1st ten amendments
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