7 Basic Principles of the Government
By Alyse, Ana, and Karla
Alyse- Individual Rights & Popular Sovereignty
Individual rights are the rights of citizens in the U.S . Examples of the right they are given are freedom of speech, religion, and press. Overall, I think all citizens could agree individual rights are the most important basic principal.
Popular sovereignty is the principal that states the government is given it's authority by the consent of its people. It states that basically the people have the final say of government decisions. Popular sovereignty and individual rights are very closely related, with both of them stating the peoples rights.
Ana- Separation of Powers & Limited Government
3 different branches. Judicial- power to change laws. Legislative- makes the laws, made up of Senate and the House of Representatives. Executive - president responsible for enforcing the laws and vice president is part of it.
Advantage- keeps politics out of justice.
Disadvantages- It is not working very well
Limited government gives the citizens more control of their environment.
Advantages- less expensive, it has economy freedom, citizens have more freedom, and personal privacy.
Karla- Checks & Balances
The power of the government is distributed into 3 branches. No branch gets too much power. Each branch watches out so that the other branches don't get too much power.
Karla- Republicanism & Federalism
Republicanism is the idea of having a society or state as a republic. It implies the absence of monarchy, but it may also mean, "role by many people and by law". It would be where the head of state is the people who hold popular sovereignty instead of people being subjects.
Federalism is the division of power between the national and state governments. The national government cant take care of every detail in each state. Therefore, the power is divided between the national and state government.
I like how it's color coded and has pictures with informational text, but what would happen when there is too many people in a city government and the city has a small population?
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That a way ladies!!!! I think tomorrow should be a very interesting class and workday!!!! Fine tune the blog and add some design or graphics, also can you find a recent news story regarding any of these principles???
ReplyDeleteThis was amazing the way u organzied it is they imformational and eye catching. The pictures workrd very well with the summarys the examples were great. It answerd all of my questions about The 7 Constitutional Principles. Thank you :)
ReplyDelete-Hannah Gray
Great job girls its well thought out thank you. I loved how you gave pictures to help support your statement and ideas. I also liked how you organized the blog and its easy to understand and read. ^.^ (Victoria Perrin)
ReplyDeleteGreat~ how do the branches know when they have too much power?
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That's why Checks and Balances exist .It keeps balance of power between the government and the three branches.
DeleteThe information is seriously superior. If individual rights were removed, would a limited government be affected?-(Gabi, Brent, Damon, Ben)
ReplyDeleteHow is limited government less expensive? I like the format of your blog. Fantastic Five (Harley Bolles)
ReplyDeleteGood job! Do u think one branch is more important than the other branches?(James McCoy)
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DeleteAnd No I do not think that, the power is distribuated into equal part,so they may have different jobs to accomplish but they turn out to have the same amount of work and power.(Karla)
checks and balances keep them from getting that power so they dont have to worry
ReplyDeletehow are individual rights and popular soverignty similar
(makayla hodges)
With checks and balances in the separation of powers, what would happen if one power gained more power than the other two?-(Damon)
ReplyDeleteHow would our government be different without Limited Government as a principle ? (Frank H.)
ReplyDeleteWhy do you say the seperation of powers is not working well?Mason
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