Limited Government
Government must obey the law
What is Constitutionalism?
What is the legislative, executive, and judicial branch?
What are the three branches the National Government is organized into?
The power to decide whether what the government does is in accord with what the Constitution provides
What is the power of judicial review?
The powers held by government are distributed on a territorial basis. The National Government holds some of those powers, and the others belong to the 50 States.
How is the American Government set up in federal form?
Government and its officers are always subject to-never above- the law.
What is the Rule of Law?
Powers that were granted to Congress by the Constitution
The three branches are not entirely separate, nor completely independent from one another and are tied together. Subject to constitutional checks by the other branches
What is Check and Balances?
To declare illegal, null and void, of no force or effect a governmental action.
What does it mean to declare a governmental action unconstitutional?
The division of power among a central government and several regional governments.
What is the principle of Federalism?
The government is not all powerful and it may do only those things that the people have given it the power to do.
What is the principle of limited government?
The power that declares acts of Congress or the President are unconstitutional
The Supreme Court established the power of Judicial Review in this landmark case
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Why did the colonist rebel against the harsh rule of a powerful and distant central government?