This is for a Test! We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America
Preamble, U. S. Constitution
What principle of government is articulated in this excerpt from the preamble to the US Constitution?
A. Power is equally shared amongst three branches of government.
B. The authority of the government originates with the people.
C. The federal and state government shares power.
D. The federal government’s power is restricted by the states.