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Popular sovereignty basically states that the government is subject to the will of the people. They are technically in charge of the government and how it is run. The elected representative(s) represent the people in their area and their opinion.

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Limited government defines how much power the government has, which is decided by the people. The people vote on how much taxes are, decided by a majority of the population.

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Federalism is the ida of splitting political power between a large group and smaller groups. In the case of the US, there is state, national, and local governments. Each state or local government controls the state or city it represents.

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The separation of powers allows for the government to be split into different groups, or branches, allowing them to focus on one job only, and to prevent one branch to have all the power.

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The system of checks and balances is made to keep one branch of government from getting too powerful. If one branch has too much power, the other two either help decrease the powers of the group, or build themselves to the same level.