1. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
Identify the 6 principles that form our Constitution
Meaning and purpose of each principle
Examples
How do you see these principles in your everyday life? 

2. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
US Constitution Quick Facts
Signed into being on September 17, 1787
3 Parts
Preamble: Introduction, establishes the purpose of government 
Articles: 7 articles which provides guidelines for how the government will operate
Amendments: 27changes to the original document
What are the main principles of the US Constitution?

3. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
What is a Principle?
1. Brainstorm a what a principle means.
2. Give an example of how you may use a principle in your life.
What are the main principles of the US Constitution?

4. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
What is a Principle?
A principle is a basic rule that guides and influences thought or action...
Principles guide our decision making, thus help to keep us in order. 
What are the main principles of the US Constitution?

5. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
1. Popular Sovereignty 2. Limited Government 3. Separation of Powers 4. Checks and Balances 5. Judicial Review 6. Federalism 
The government follows these principles when making laws and decisions.
Tell students that the Founders of the Constitution had to solve two problems: how to give the government enough power to preserve the nation, and how to provide safeguards to prevent the government from taking away freedoms and rights of the people. The main principles of the Constitution serve these two functions.
What are the main principles of the US Constitution?

6. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
1. Popular Sovereignty
The people are the source of power.
Popular = People
The writers wanted to emphasize that the ability to set up and start a new government came from the people.  
Placing power in the hands of the people.
-People do not rule directly, but exercise power through elected representatives
Sovereignty = Power
What are the main principles of the US Constitution?

7. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
1. Popular Sovereignty
The writers wanted to emphasize that the ability to set up and start a new government came from the people.  
Placing power in the hands of the people.
-People do not rule directly, but exercise power through elected representatives
What are the main principles of the US Constitution?

8. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
1. Popular Sovereingty
The writers wanted to emphasize that the ability to set up and start a new government came from the people.  
Placing power in the hands of the people.
-People do not rule directly, but exercise power through elected representatives
What are the main principles of the US Constitution?

9. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
2. Limited Government
Magna Carta
Government powers are limited to what is written in the constitution.
Example: The police cannot search or seize your property without demonstrating cause and getting a warrant.
(we have seen this before, magna carta and english bill of rights)
A government whose powers are define and limited by a constitution. 
Government must be conducted according to the Constitution and obey the law.
Government and its officers always subject -not above- the law
Government is to be limited if liberty is to be safeguarded 
English Bill of Rights
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10. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
3. Separation of Powers
Where have we heard this idea before?
Make the Laws
Enforce the Laws
Interpret the Laws
The framer's did not want one part of government to become too powerful.
What are the main principles of the US Constitution?

11. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
4. Checks and Balances
Definition: Each branch of government has some power over the other two branches. 
 Makes government less efficient but also less likely to trample on the rights of citizens
Purpose: Preventing any one branch from having too much power.
Example: If Congress makes a law , what can the President do if the president does not agree with it?
What are the main principles of the US Constitution?

13. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
5. Judicial Review
Courts decide if government acts violate the constitution.
Final authority on what the constitution says.
Marbury v. Madison established judicial review
1803 Case 
 he declared that Madison should have delivered the commission to Marbury, but then held that the section of the Judiciary Act of 1789 that gave the Supreme Court the power to issue writs of mandamus exceeded the authority allotted the Court under Article III of the Constitution, and was therefore null and void.
1896 the courst rules "seperate but equal" 
1954
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14. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
6. Federalism
Power is divided between national, state, and local governments.
Each level has its own responsibilities.
1. Delegated Powers
2. Concurrent Powers
3. Reserved Powers, "everything else reserved to the states" 10th Amendment
What are the main principles of the US Constitution?

15. What are the main principles of the US Constitution?
Task
Each group will be assigned a principle
Locate where in the constitution your principle is found.
Provide an example of your principle.
Expert groups will teach the rest of the class.
What are the main principles of the US Constitution?