What is limited government? A. A Constitution

B. A governing or controlling body whose power exists only within pre-defined limits.

C. a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

D. a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they liv

the first 10 amendments to the u.s. constitution are known as the bill of rights. those 10 amendments establish the most basic freedoms for americans including the rights to worship how they want, speak how they want, and assembly and peaceably protest their government how they want. the amendments have also been subject to much interpretation since their adoption, particularly the right to carry a gun under the second amendment.

"a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference," said thomas jefferson, the author of the declaration of independence and the third president of the united states.