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federalism: giving powers to both the state and central governments

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a system where residents vote to decide an issue, existed in the government.

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gives all the branches equal power and they can check the power of the other branches (group 2) 

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gives all the branches equal power and they can check the power of the other branches (group 2) 

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Checks and Balances is the balance of power between the 3 different government branches in our country. It allows different branches of the government to have a shared responsibility in the decisions they make.

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The idea of limited government came from the English citizens wanting to limit the power of the king.

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The government couldn't function properly so they wanted to expand the idea of Fedarlism

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The US government limits the power of the federal government.

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Popular Sovereignty Became an important issue during the civil war period.

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Expressed within the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

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A power of the people where they voted on an issue in the country. For example, newly added states would allow popular sovereignty to determine if the new states would enter the Union as free or slave states.

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To help with constitution and the declaration of independence, they use limited government.

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elastic clause was first practiced in the court case McCulloch v. Maryland. This concept allows for informal changes, changes that do not impact the literal working of the Constitution itself to be made to the Constitution.

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check and balances is an example of flexibility because controls the power of the branches 

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check and balances is an example of flexibility because controls the power of the branches 

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group 2

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since the central government was unable to govern effectively farmers tried to attempt to remedy this idea by expanding federalism

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separation of power gives each of the branches of the federal government in its own special area of responsibility, it also gives them authority to monitor the power of the other branches (group4)

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separation of power gives each of the branches of the federal government in its own special area of responsibility, it also gives them authority to monitor the power of the other branches (group4)

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Checks and balances is a system of partially shared responsibility.Powers are divided in a balanced way in a effort to prevent any other branch demanding the others

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separation of powers means the Judicial, legislative, executive all have the same amount of power.

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it gives each of the branches of the federal goverment its own special area of responsibility

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farmers gave each branch some power to participate in the decision of other branches, this forced the branches to try to gave the approval for it policies and decisions.

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An amendment is a formal written change to Constitution.  There are 27 amendments currently to the Constitution, the first 10 being the Bill of Rights.