Category: American Government and Civics Series

The KTB Prep American Government and Civics Series is a comprehensive review of the Constitutional Influences, Constituional Influencers, the Constitution itself, the 5 Limits on Government, and Landmark Supreme Court Cases.

Constitutional Influencers explores Machiavelli, Descartes, Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu and Rousseau to determine how these philosophers had such a profound impact on our system of government.

Constitutional Influences looks at five documents that preceded the Constitution and highlights what was kept by our founders. These documents are Magna Carta, The Mayflower Compact, the English Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation.

The Constitution explains the preamble, the seven articles, and the 27 amendments to the Constitution including the first ten which are collectively known as the Bill of Rights.

The Five Limits on Government actually act as a test of the limited government stance on the Constitution. These limits are the rule of law, separation of powers, consent of the governed, majority rule with minority rights, and constitutionalism,

Landmark Supreme Court cases chronicle roughly 130 cases starting from Marbury v. Madison (1803) through Fisher v. Texas (2016). These cases are also distributed across the categories of killingthebreeze.com, where they fit, to give each category a legal basis.

The American Government and Civics Series can be used as the foundational basis for defining good citizenship in the United States.