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VII. Scan the text to answer the following questions.
1. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
2. What other information besides the proclamation of independence is there in
the Declaration?
3. What are the self-evident truths dealt with in the Declaration?
4. What does the compact theory of government say about the purposes the
governments were established for?
5. What does the compact theory of Government say about the purpose the
governments were established for?
6. What do Governments derive their powers from?
VIII. Make a summary of the text.
The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights
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I. Read and translate the text. Consult the notes below.
The former colonies, now “the United States of America”, first operated
under an agreement called the Articles of Confederation (1781). It was soon
clear that this loose agreement among the states was not working well. The
central, federal government was too weak, with too few powers of defence,
trade, and taxation. In 1787, therefore, delegates from the states met in
Philadelphia. They wanted to revise the Articles, but they did much more than
that. They wrote a completely new document, the Constitution, which after
much argument, debate, and compromise was finished in the same year and
officially adopted by the thirteen states by 1790.
The Constitution of the USA has now been in force for more than 200
years. It is a fairly brief document. The Constitution consists of the Preamble,
seven articles and twenty six amendments, the first ten of them called
collectively the Bill of Rights.
The Constitution sets out the basic principles on which the government of
the United States was built and on which it is maintained. It lays out the basic
framework and procedures by which and the limits within which that
government must operate.
According to the US Constitution all political power belongs to the people.
The people are sovereign
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. They are the only source of any and all governmental
power. Government can govern only with the consent of the governed. This
principle, the principle of popular sovereignty is declared in the opening words
in the preamble.
The principle of limited government holds that government is not all-
powerful that is may do only, certain things – those things that the people have
empowered it to do. The concept of the limited power is also described as the
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