core tenets of the constitution
- The Principles of the. United States Constitution. I. Popular Sovereignty The people hold the ultimate authority A representative democracy lets the people elect leaders to make decisions for them. Orrin Hatch, Bob Bennett, and Chris Cannon are our elected officials in Congress II. - Core Principles of the Traditional British Constitutions1. Cristina E. Parau. Department of Politics and International Relations. University of Oxford. (forthcoming) One of the distinguishing characteristics of the British constitutions is its indeterminacy. No. clear boundary divides what is constitutional from what is not.