AMERICAN GOVERNMENT A: Principles of American Democracy 1. What is the supreme law of the land? 국가의 최고 법 ▪ the Constitution 헌법 2. What does the Constitution do? ▪ sets up the government ▪ defines the government ▪ protects basic rights of Americans 3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words? ▪ We the People 4. What is an amendment? ▪ a cha..