6 Principles Of The Constitution
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
POPULAR SOVEREIGHTY
- All political power resides in the people
- The people are the only source for any and all governmental power
- Government can govern only with the consent of the governed.
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LIMITED GOVERNMENT
- No government is all powerful
- That government may do only those things that the people have given it five the power to do.
- The people are the only source of any and all of governments authority, and government has only that authority the people have given to it.
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SEPARATION OF POWERS
- In the government of this common wealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them.
- The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them
- The judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them.
- To the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
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CHECKS AND BALANCES
- Each branch is subject to a number of constitutional checks, or restraints, by the other branches.
- Each branch has certain powers with which it can check the operations of the other two.
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JUDICIAL REVIEW
- The power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a government action.
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FEDERALISM
- The division of power among a central government and several regional governments - came to the constitution out of both experience and necessarily
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