Basic Principles of Government
"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) The Preamble states the broad purposes the constitution is intended to server-to establish a government that provides for greater cooperation among the States, ensures justice and peace, provides for defense against foreign enemies, promotes the general well-being of the people, and secures liberty now and in the future. One of the Constitutions' strengths is that it does not go into great detail about how the government should be run. Instead, the Constitution is built on six basic principles. These basic principles are: popular sovereignty, limited government, separation of powers, checks and balances, judicial review, and federalism.Popular sovereignty is a notion that political power or the power to govern is derived from the people. As such, the people retain the right to rescind any grant of power to the government. Popular sovereignty is woven throughout the Constitution. In the Preambl
Judicial Review is the power of the courts to determine the constitutionality of the actions of the legislative and executive branches of government. The constitution does not provide for judicial review in so many words. Yet the Framers clearly meant that the federals courts, especially the Supreme Court, should have the power. e, its opening words, the Constitution declares: "We the People of the United States...do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. In Article 1, Section 2, number 1, it declares: "...members chosen every second year by the people...". The sovereign people created the Constitution and the government, and this basic principle ensures that it stays that way. Federalism is a political system in which authority is divided between a national government and its political subdivisions. Checks and Balances are the powers held by one branch of government that allow it to limit another branch's exercise of its own powers, e.g. the President's ability to veto legislation. The National Government is organized around three separate branches. The Constitutions gives to each branch its own field of governmental authority: legislative, executive, and judicial. These three branches are not entirely separa
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