THE

CONSTITUTION
DIEGO SEGURA DOSAL
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Basic
Basic rights Basic powers and Bill of rights
structure of their distribution
protected by
the (State and
the
government federal
Constitution governments)
BASIC STRUCTURE OF
THE GOVERNMENT

The Federal Government is

composed of three distinct branches:
legislative, executive, and judicial,
whose powers are vested by the U.S.
Constitution in the Congress, the
President, and the Federal courts,
respectively.
 BASIC RIGHTS PROTECTED BY
THE CONSTITUTION
Freedom of speech Freedom of religion Freedom to petition Freedom of assembly

Principle that It encompasses the One of the five Everyone has the
supports the right of all freedoms it rights to freedom of
freedom of an Americans to guarantees is the peaceful assembly
individual or a exercise their right of the people and association,
community to religion freely, to petition the which are essential
articulate their without being government for components of
opinions and ideas coerced to join an change. The right democracy. The right
without fear of established church to petition protects of peaceful assembly
retaliation, or to satisfy a our right to ask the includes the right to
censorship, or legal religious test as a government to fix a hold meetings, sit-ins,
sanction. qualification for wrong or change a strikes, rallies, events
public office. policy. or protests, both
offline and online.
BASIC POWERS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION (STATE
AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS)

The Legislative Branch: Congress passed the Stolen Valor Act

of 2005, punishing those who misrepresent that they have
received high military honors.
The Judicial Branch: The Supreme Court of the United States
ruled in 2012 that the act was unconstitutional because it
infringed on the right to free speech protected by the First
Amendment.
The Executive Branch: The Pentagon and the President –
took action within a month of the Supreme Court's decision
establishing a government-funded national database of medal
citations phased in over time to enable verification of military
honors.
The Legislative Branch: Less than a year after Alvarez was
decided, Congress responded with legislation that sought to
remedy the constitutional problems in the 2005 legislation,
which the Supreme Court decided in U.S. v. Alvarez were in
violation of the First Amendment.
BILL OF RIGHTS