A government that is limited or restrained by the provisions of a constitution.

A legal agreement between people in a country

Who did our Founders believe were the original major parties (participants) to our constitution?

Who were the original parties to the British constitution?

Is the idea of constitutional government the same for all countries?

What does it mean if your constitution is a higher form of law or fundamental law?

Why in the United States can we claim that no one is above the (rule of) law?

When is the rule of law truly threatened?

How does our concept of constitutional government differ from that followed by Britain?

In the United States, who can lawfully violate our constitution?

In the U.S., what institution, level of government or person can alone lawfully change our constitution?

In the U.S., what trumps all other forms of law, and cannot be easily changed?

What is considered the fundamental or higher law in the United States?

What is the value of a written constitution?

In countries without written constitutions, what usually makes up their constitutions?

Without written proof, what does the rule of law become?

If a branch or level of our government ignored the interests and/or rights of the people for long, who would eventually check (restrain) them?

Our constitution prohibits bills of attainder, but what are they?

Our constitution prohibits ex post facto laws, but what are they?

By factions, what were the Founders referring to?

What is likely to happen when all the power is given to the many?

What is likely to happen when all the power is given to the few?

What did Aristotle (Greek philosopher) call unlimited government?

Our founders believed that a tyranny was just as likely to exist in a ___________ as in an autocracy, dictatorship, or a monarchy.

What type of government can be a constitutional government?

Whenever constitutional gov't was short lived, what was its decline due to, and what hastened (sped up) its decline?

According to our Founders, because democracy enables momentary passions to inflame the people and lead to passionate rather than reasoned judgments, which form of government is more likely to ignore constitutional limits?

Why are primary decision makers in a democracy, less likely to deny themselves privileges (or restrain their own ambitions and desires) for the good of the community, and more likely to make others (minorities) bare the greatest burden?

What did our founders believe to be self defeating projects?

What did our founders believe democracy inevitably evolves into? Why?

Who are the primary decision makers in a democracy?

If the decision makers in a republic are just as self serving as those in a democracy, then why don't they abuse their power as much as the decision makers in a democracy do?

Our founders believed the development of factions and conflict between majority and minority factions was ________.

Our founders believed that removing the cause of factions was impractical and unwise, but that relief from the mischief of factions can be gained by controlling its

What are two methods for removing the causes of faction

Which of the two methods for removing the causes of faction is worse than the disease (faction itself)

In our republic, what principles does our constitution supply to provide relief from a situation where the elected gov't is beholden to (elected by) a majority who demands that their gov't abuse the rights of a minority?

When the faction is comprised of a minority, relief can be supplied by the __________ ___________.