Founding Principles
Laws apply to everyone
What is rule of law
The principle that no person can be deprived of life, liberty, property without fair legal procedures
due process
Its the goal statement
What is preamble
Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote_________________. He promoted what ideas___________________
What is Social Contract or Individual Rights Pop Sov
First to limit government in England
What is magna carta
Plato's Preferred Gov't
What is a Republic (Representative Gov't)
system of gov't in which power is divided between central and regional gov'ts
Federalism
The parts?
What is preamble, articles, and amendments.
Thought people were too selfish to govern themselves and wrote Leviathan
What is T Hobbes
The Social Contract
What is JJR
We have life, liberty, speech....
What is Individual Rights
A literal approach to interpreting the Constitution
strict construction (narrow, textualism)
Article 1 and 1st duty
What is Legislative make laws
Best gov't= democracy Best democracy= power is divided (Spirit of Law)
What is B d Montesquieu
Three problems with the AoC
What is one branch, limited power (tax), all had veto power
The government should only do the things we can not do for ourselves.
What is limited gov't
a system of judges and courts separate from other branches
What is independent judiciary
The part that makes federal law "supreme" (name of clause and location)
"Supremacy Clause" Article VI
'The purpose of law is not to restrain freedoms but to preserve them' (gov'ts purpose is to preserve natural rights) (The Second Treatise of Gov't)
What is j locke
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.....
What is DoL
Name eight
What is Rol, RG, MR, IR, PS, SoP, C, LG
Powers granted to national gov't
Powers granted to States
Powers Shared
Delegated
Reserved
Concurrent
All articles, the provisions and what each does
What is I Legislative Laws II Exec Enforce III Judicial Interpret IV Federalism state-state-fed relations V Amendments Additions VI Supremacy Fed above state VII Ratify 9/13
Three documents by Thomas Paine
American Crisis, Common
Sense, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
recite the preamble
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