3. Theidea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution.
What are these words?
Answer:
We the People
Explanation:
The idea behind the words “We the people”
is one of the most important ones in a democracy.
A democracy is a government
where the citizens (the people who are part of a country) vote for and elect (or choose) the people
who will govern (or lead and make decisions for) them.
The United States has a representative democracy,
which means that citizens vote for people who then represent them in the government,
making laws and decisions that reflect (or are the same as) what the citizens want.
These first three words of the Constitution,
“We the people,”
also tell us about the main difference between the United States and the European countries
that most of the United States’ first citizens came from.
Back in the 1700s,
countries like England and France, where many of the first Americans came from,
were ruled by a monarch (or a king).