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The Constitution of
the
United States
Preamble
States the purpose of the Constitution
 We the people of the United State, in
order to form a more perfect Union,
establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare,
secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and our posterity, do ordain
and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America.
Seven Principles of the
Constitution
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1.Popular Sovereignty
2.Republicanism
3. Federalism
4. Separation of Powers
5. Checks and Balances
6. Limited Government
7. Individual Rights
 1.Popular Sovereignty
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a government in which the people
rule
 The Preamble clearly spells out the
source of governments powers
 “We the people…”
 Republicanism
 is the belief: The people exercise their
power by voting for their political
representative
The Preamble
 Copy the following paragraph.
 Please underline all the words as they are
shown.
The Preamble
• 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 vocabulary
 Copy the vocabulary word and the
synonyms. You do not need to copy the
definitions.
union
 Blending, coming together, combination
 The act of joining together people or
things
establish
 Create, start, begin, set up
 To start or set up something that is
intended to continue
justice
 Fairness, fair play, morality
insure
 Make certain, make sure
 To make sure something will happen
domestic
 home, household, family, national, internal
 Happening within one country
tranquility
 Peaceful, calm, quiet
common
 General, universal, shared, everyone’s
 Belonging to, or shared by two or more
people or things
promote
 Endorse, encourage, support, sponsor
 To encourage the growth and
development of something
general
 universal, common, wide-ranging
 Including all or nearly all the members of
a group
welfare
 well-being, health, security, success
posterity
 future generations
ordain
 order, proclaim, command, establish
 To order or establish something formally,
especially by law
Assignment
 Rewrite the Preamble changing the
underlined words. It must make sense.
Read it out loud to yourself to make
sure. You can rearrange the words to
allow your paragraph to make sense.
 Federalism
 Division of power between states &
national government
 Separation of Powers
 Means division of basic government roles into
branches
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each branch has its own set of powers
 So that no one branch can has all the power
 Separation of Powers
 The divisions of power for each branch
can be found in:
 Article 1, Article 2, & Article 3 of the
Constitution
Separation of Powers
 United States
Constitution
Article 1
3
Legislative Branch
Branch
Congress makes
Court
laws
Article 2
Executive Branch
President enforces
laws
Article
Judicial
Supreme
interprets
Checks & Balances
 Checks & Balances
 How the Power are Evenly Distributive
 Each branch of the government can exercise , checks, or control,
over the other branches
 This helps to make sure the branch work together fairly
ONLY Congress can passes laws
President can check Congress by not
signing the Bill into law
Supreme Court can declare that law, passed
by Congress & signed by the President,
violates the Constitution
Limited Government
Power
 Article 1 Section 9
 The Constitution lists powers denied
Congress
 Article 1 Section 10
 Forbids the states to take certain actions
Limited Government
Power
 “Rule of Law”
 Everyone, citizen & powerful leaders
alike must obey the law
Individual Rights
 How peoples person Freedoms are
protected
 The Bill of Rights
 1st ten amendments
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