Basic Info...
- Popular Sovereignty: The people are the source of any and all government.
- Limited Government: States that the government is restricted in what it can do, and each individual has rights that government can't take away.
- Separation of Powers: The executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government are independent and co-equal branches of govermnet.
- Checks & Balances: The system that allows the legislative, executive, and judicial, branches to check, or restrain, the actions of one another.
- Judicial Review: Consists of the power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a governmental action.
- Federalism: Is the system of government in which the power of governments are divided between a central government and several local governments.