Activity: Constitution Bank Builder (Example)
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30th August 2015
Unit 4C: Governing the USA – Constitution Example Bank Builder
| Political Concept | Definition | Explanation | Example |
| Separation of powers | “Separation of powers is the principle in which the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government are three independent and coequal branches of government.”
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A theory of government whereby political power is distributed among these branches of government – the legislature, the executive and the judiciary – acting both independently and interdependently.
As applied to the US government, the theory is better understood as one of ‘shared powers’. It is the institutions of government that are separate, while the powers are shared through an elaborate series of checks and balances.
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a) Separation of powers 3 branches have 3 different roles – legislating, executing and enforcing b) Shared powers |
| Codified Constitution | |||
| Federalism | |||
| Popular Sovereignty | |||
| Limited Government | |||
| Checks and Balances by Legislative branch | |||
| Checks and Balances by Executive branch | |||
| Checks and Balances by Judicial branch | |||
| Checks and Balances on Legislative branch | |||
| Checks and Balances on Executive branch | |||
| Checks and Balances on Judicial branch | |||
| Judicial Review | |||
| Constitutional Amendment | |||
| Amendment process | |||
| Bill of Rights | |||
| Direct democracy | |||
| Representative Democracy |
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