5 basic principles

We the People of the United States . . .do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Limited Government

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Powers

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes... [and] To borrow money

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Limited Government

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Powers

This Constitution...shall be the supreme law of the land

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Limited Government

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Powers

The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Limited Government

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Powers

Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Limited Government

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Powers

No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Limited Government

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Powers

He [the President] shall...nominate and with the consent and advise of the Senate appoint members of the Supreme Court .

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Limited Government

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Powers

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Limited Government

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Powers

"The Congress shall have power to. . . declare war"

"The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states"

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Limited Government

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Powers

The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court.

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Limited Government

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Powers