US CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Constitution rests on seven basic principles. They are popular sovereignty, limited government, separation of powers, federalism, checks and balances, republicanism, and individual rights. Popular Sovereignty The framers of the Constitution lived at a time when monarchs claimed that their power came from God.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Constitution limits the government by enumerating or listing its powers. The government may not apply powers that are not enumerated or implicitly granted to it. The Constitution separates the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.

Detailed explanation-3: -The principle of limited government holds that no government is all-powerful, that a government may do only those things that the people have given it the power to do. The government must obey the law.

Detailed explanation-4: -The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.