Created by Colton Chambers
That project about how our founding fathers created our government and shows how our government works today. I wrote this project mainly because it was in assignment but also to show the each individual branches that makes our country so great. This project also shows the checks and balances in government and shows how one branch can got become more powerful than the others and make our government balanced.
" 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." - The Preamble
Vocabulary
Popular Sovereignty - popular sovereignty expresses a concept and does'nt necessarily reflect or describe a political reality
Federalism - A political concept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant with a governing representative head.
Separation of powers - The separation of powers, is model for the governance of both democratic & federative state.
Checks and Balances - Counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups
Judicial Review - Review by Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act.
Limited Government - a government where anymore than minimal government intervention in personal liberties and the economy is not usually allowed by law, usually in a written Constitution
Bill of Attainder - A law passed against a person, pronouncing him guilty, without trail, of an alleged crime (epecially reason) and punishing him by death and depriving him of his civil rights and his property
Elastic Clause - A statement in the U.S. Constitution granting the power to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the enumerated list of powers
Supremacy Clause - Establishes the U.S. Constitution Statutes, and U.S. treaties as "the Supreme law of the land
Writ of Habeas Corpus - A writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge
Ex Post Facto - An ex post facto law or retroactive law, is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences of actions committed or relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the law.
Due process - Fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen's entitlement
Expressed Powers - The enumerated powers are a list of items found in Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution which set the authoritative capacity of the United States Congres
Implied Powers - implied powers, in the United States, are those powers authorized by a legal document (from the Constitution) which, while not stated, are seemed to be implied by powers expressly stated
Full Faith and Credit - Full Faith and Credit Clause, the familiar name used to refer to Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, addresses the duties that states within the United States have to respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings" of other states.
Privileges and Immunities - The Privileges and Immunities Clause prevents a state from treating citizens of other states in a discriminatory manner, with regard to basic civil rights.
Extradition -The action of extraditing a person accused or convicted of a crime.
Republic -A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch
Popular Sovereignty - popular sovereignty expresses a concept and does'nt necessarily reflect or describe a political reality
Federalism - A political concept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant with a governing representative head.
Separation of powers - The separation of powers, is model for the governance of both democratic & federative state.
Checks and Balances - Counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups
Judicial Review - Review by Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act.
Limited Government - a government where anymore than minimal government intervention in personal liberties and the economy is not usually allowed by law, usually in a written Constitution
Bill of Attainder - A law passed against a person, pronouncing him guilty, without trail, of an alleged crime (epecially reason) and punishing him by death and depriving him of his civil rights and his property
Elastic Clause - A statement in the U.S. Constitution granting the power to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the enumerated list of powers
Supremacy Clause - Establishes the U.S. Constitution Statutes, and U.S. treaties as "the Supreme law of the land
Writ of Habeas Corpus - A writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge
Ex Post Facto - An ex post facto law or retroactive law, is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences of actions committed or relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the law.
Due process - Fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen's entitlement
Expressed Powers - The enumerated powers are a list of items found in Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution which set the authoritative capacity of the United States Congres
Implied Powers - implied powers, in the United States, are those powers authorized by a legal document (from the Constitution) which, while not stated, are seemed to be implied by powers expressly stated
Full Faith and Credit - Full Faith and Credit Clause, the familiar name used to refer to Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, addresses the duties that states within the United States have to respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings" of other states.
Privileges and Immunities - The Privileges and Immunities Clause prevents a state from treating citizens of other states in a discriminatory manner, with regard to basic civil rights.
Extradition -The action of extraditing a person accused or convicted of a crime.
Republic -A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch