As a citizen in a democratic-republic how will you ensure the principles of the Constitution are upheld?

As a citizen in a democratic-republic how will you ensure the principles of the Constitution are upheld?

Document A – U.S. Constitution – Checks & Balances

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Article I, Section VIII – Congress shall have the power… to declare war.

Article II, Section II – The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States.

Document B–U.S. Constitution – Federalism

Amendment 10 – 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.

Document C – U.S. Constitution – Popular Sovereignty

The Preamble – “We the People of the United States… do ordain and establish this Constitution…”

Document D – U.S. Constitution – Limited Government

Article VI – The Supremacy Clause – “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States, which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land…”

Document E – U.S. Constitution – Separation of Powers

Article I, Section I – All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Article II, Section I – The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

Article III, Section I – The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts…

Document F–U.S. Constitution – Republicanism

Article I – Provides for a bicameral U.S. Congress. House of Representatives members are elected every two years. Senate members serve six-year terms.

Article II – Provides for a President and a Vice President to be elected every four years.

Document G –U.S. Constitution – Amendment I

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Document H – U.S. Constitution – Amendment XIV, Section I

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Document I – Madison

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one or a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny… ‘There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body of magistrates,’ or ‘if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive power’…”James Madison, The Federalist, No. 47 (1789)