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Freedom of speech and religon

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right to bear arms

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Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self Incrimination, Due Process, Takings

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Excessive Fines, Cruel and Unusual Punishment

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Non-Enumerated Rights Retained by People

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Right to Speedy Trial by Jury, Witnesses, Counsel

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Election of President and Vice President

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Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt

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Presidential Term and Succession, Assembly of Congress

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Popular sovereignty is the principle that the leaders of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political legitimacy.

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In political philosophy, limited government is the concept of a government limited in power.

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Federalism is a mode of government that combines a general government with regional governments in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two

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Group rights, also known as collective rights, are rights held by a group as a whole rather than individually by its members

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In political philosophy, Republicanism is a western political ideology that encompasses a range of ideas from civic virtue, political participation, harms of corruption, positives of mixed constitution, rule of law, and others

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Our is "a government of laws and not of men," and the rule of law is our foundation.

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The Constitution is sometimes silent or vague, making it flexible and adaptable to new circumstances

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Ancient Greece

Athens=Democracy

Democracy- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

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Ancient Rome

-Roman Republic & Senate

Republic- A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives

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The Enlightenment

-New Ideas about Government Reason over faith

-John Locke-Government should protect human natural rights

- Baron de Montesquieu

-Three Branches of Government- Legislative→ Executive→ Judicial→

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The Preamble: Introduction of the Constitution; the introductory part of a constitution or statute that usually states the reasons for and intent of the law

Purpose : It clearly communicates the intentions of the framers and the purpose of the document