Limited government: The government has only the powers that constitution gives it.
Rule of law: The Government and its officers are always subject to the law, never above it.
Federalism: The sharing of power between federal and state government.
Separation of powers: Refers to the division of government responsibilities into distinct branches to limit any one branch from exercising the core functions of another. The intent is to prevent the concentration of power.
Checks and balances: each branch of the national government can check the actions of the other two branches.
Popular sovereignty: The concept that political power sets with the people who can create, alter and abolish government. People express themselves through voting and free participation in government.
<u>Let's match each term or expression with its definition</u>
- Germany and Austria-Hungary: Dual Alliance. It was a defensive alliance founded in 1879, that became part of the system of alliances developed by Bismarck, in order to prevent that Germany got involved in a war.
- Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary - Triple Alliance. It was an agreement signed by Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary, in 1882. It was renewed periodically until they got involved together in WWI, and the agreeement finally expired when the alliance was defeated by the Allied powers.
- Iron Chancellor: Bismarck. Otto von Bismarck (1815 – 1898) governed German international and European affairs between the 1860s and 1890s. He subsquently became the first Chancellor of the German Empire. He was in office betwee 1871 and 1890.
- Divine right German emperor: Wilhelm. Wilhelm II (1859 – 1941) was the last Kaiser (Emperor) of the German Empire. He abdicated in 1918, right before Germany's defeat in WWI became official.
- Title for emperor in Germany: Kaiser. The term Kaiser means emperor in German. It was used to refer to the rightful rulers of the German Empire and the Austrian Empire, and it was an inherited title.
I think they are tired of being called Chinese and now want to be called the Han people.
If you feel that every citizen has the right to own a gun then you will
most likely refer to the second amendment in your argument, if you are
considering the constitution. The second constitution concerns the right
to bear arms.
