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Explain the main features of the US federal Constitution.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Origins of Modern Politics

Drafted at the Philadelphia Convention (1787) to remedy the failures of the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution established a distinctive framework combining a written, rigid, federal, and republican structure with an elaborate system of separated powers and checks and balances.

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  • A Written, Brief, and Rigid Constitution
  • Popular Sovereignty and Republicanism
  • Federalism
  • Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances
  • Dual Citizenship and an Independent Judiciary
  • The Bill of Rights
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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