Government Questions and Answers

The Constitution is important because it protects individual freedom, and its fundamental principles govern the United States. The Constitution places the government's power in the hands of the citizens. It limits the power of the government and establishes a system of checks and balances.

A constitution is an aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity, and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed.

Communist is defined as a political and economic system in which the community through the common ownership, collectively controls all the means of production of goods and services, exchange and distribution. Rule of law means everyone is equal before the law and should be treated with no exceptions. A communist system is a system run on the basis of communism. Without going into details, communism means everyone gets everything they need and everyone has an equal say in everything.

Checks and balances, principle of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches and are induced to share power. Checks and balances are applied primarily in constitutional governments.

Serfdom is the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism. It was a condition of debt bondage.