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Limited Government
Separation of Powers
Check and Balances
Judicial Review
Federalism
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Government must obey the law

What is Constitutionalism?

100
The three branches that the Constitution distributes the powers of the National Government

What is the legislative, executive, and judicial branch?

100
The legislative, judicial, and executive branch.

What are the three branches the National Government is organized into?

100

The power to decide whether what the government does is in accord with what the Constitution provides 

What is the power of judicial review?

100

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?

200

Government and its officers are always subject to-never above- the law.

What is the Rule of Law?

200

Powers that were granted to Congress by the Constitution

Who is the Legislative Branch?
200

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?

200

To declare illegal, null and void, of no force or effect a governmental action.

What does it mean to declare a governmental action unconstitutional?

200

The division of power among a central government and several regional governments.

What is the principle of Federalism?

300

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?

300
The power given to the President of the United States.
Who has the executive power in National Government?
300

The power that declares acts of Congress or the President are unconstitutional 

What is the Supreme Court and other Federal Courts?
300

The Supreme Court established the power of Judicial Review in this landmark case

What is Marbury v. Madison?

300
They fought for the right to manage their local affairs without the meddling and dictation of the king and his ministers in far-off London.

Why did the colonist rebel against the harsh rule of a powerful and distant central government?