Rule Of law
What does The rule of law Mean
No one is above the law
What is the main idea behind the separation of powers?
To stop one group getting more power.
How many types of powers are there.
Three
Which branch nominates justices for the Supreme Court
Executive
What does sovereignty
The right to rule
Name One Foundations Of Rights3
Manga Carta, English bill of rights, Virgina Declaration of rights 1776, Bill Of rights.
Name two out of three Branches of government.
Judicial, Executive, and Legislative
In setting up a federal system system, the writers of the Constitution divided the powers of what?
Government
How many branches are there.
3
This phrase used in the preamble of the constitution highlights the power of the government comes from the people. What is the saying
We the people.
Farmer Belive What.
The Government should be strong but not to strong.
What is another way to say the separation of powers as used in the article?
The division of authority.
What power Can they all Powers do. Name 2
Collecct taxes borrow Money. Set up courts. Set up prisons.
What did the farmers fear.
One branch would be too powerful.
Who choose the president and vice president.
Electoral College,
Who was the first person to have the idea of the rule of law.
John Locke
What are the three branches of government made to prevent each other from becoming too powerful?
Judicial, Executive, and Legislative
Name all Three types of power
Expressed, Reserved, Concurrent
People must obey what laws
Federal and state Laws.
Who is in the Picture in this section.
Scott Stantis
What was the first written constitution written in 1215 that began on the foundation of rights for the rule of law?
Magna Carta
What French Philosopher mainly influenced the framers' ideas to put the separation of powers principle into the Constitution?
Baron De Montesquieu
Chapter 6
This president challenged the idea of checks and balances in 1937 by planning to expand the Supreme Court. but ultimately was shut down.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
This political issue in the 1850s let popular sovereignty show, allowing the people of newfound territories to decide whether they would like to add slavery or not.
Kansas Nebraska Act