Define limited government and its relation to liberty. Explain ways in which the Constitution limits government.
What will be an ideal response?
Limited government is a government that is subject to strict limits on its lawful uses of power, and hence its ability to deprive people of their liberty. The framers established a number of major ways the Constitution limits the government. One was confining the scope of government to grants of power-those powers granted to the national government by the Constitution. Powers not granted to it are denied to it unless they are necessary and proper to the carrying out of granted power. Another method was denials of power-powers expressly denied to the national and state governments by the Constitution. A further aspect of limited government was separated institutions sharing power: the division of the national government's power among three branches, each of which is to act as a check on the other two. The Bill of Rights further limited government by specifying individual rights that the national government must respect. Federalism divided political authority between the national government and the states, enabling the people to appeal to one authority if their rights and interests are not respected by the others. Elections of leadership provided the people with a method of removing leaders from office if they are not satisfied with their performance. Some analysts include judicial review in this list, even though it is not explicitly provided for in the Constitution.
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