The U.S. Constitution provides for separated political institutions in the legislature, executive, and judicial branches. Explain how each of these branches can check the powers of the others while at the same time having to share some powers with the other branches.

Identify and discuss three of the key ideas found in Madison's Federalist No. 10.

Explain how the system of government of the United States is more democratic in some ways than those of other democracies, yet in other ways is less directly responsive to numerical majorities.

Name the four goals of the writers of the Constitution, mentioning some ways that their goals relate to applying the Constitution to current issues.