What limitations does the US Constitution place on the federal government?

To place limitations on what the central Federal government could and could not do. The Bill of Rights specifically states things that the government CANNOT do. At the time the Constitution was created, people were afraid that the central government would be too powerful. P.S.- they were correct!

There are many. 1 is the government cannot veto state laws.

By no means- but it DID place specific limits on what the Federal government could NOT do.

There was no government in place until the Constitution was ratified.

No, it would be illegal for the federal government to place such a restriction but not for smaller units of government to do so. This is assuming that you are referring to the United States' constitution and not a particular state. Powers not specifically taken by the federal government in the Constitution are granted to the states. This power is typically allowed to roll downhill to counties, towns, and even subdivisions.

There is no fear of people in the constitution. The constitution is a framework for government and tells congress and the president how government is to be established. Fear is an emotion that in a society has no place nor does a government have emotions.

None of the branches of government as they now exist were in place at the time the Constitution was signed. When it was "signed", if that means approved by the Constitutional Convention and sent to the states for ratification. Until the Constitution was actually ratified by the requisite number of states, they continued to operate under the prior Articles of Confederation. Congress was a single house body. There was no President and no federal judiciary.

The federal government does not tax state and local governments and tax-exempt organizations such as churches and charities.

As a nation, our first government was established at the end of the revolution via a document called the Articles of Confederation; but it didn't work too well, so the US Constitution was adopted in its place.

The constitution does not give the federal govt. the power to set suffrage qualifications.

Political systems with federal and state governments are federalist. In other words, there is a vertical divison of powe. In the United States, the state government has all of the powers invested to it in the Constitution, specifically in Article IV. The state governments also have any powers that are not explicitly given to the federal government in the Constitution. By contrast, the federal government has those powers delegated to it in Article I. Questions…

No place in the constitution has evolutionary thinking. The constitution is a secular framework for government.

freedom of speech and religion.

The two major factions were the Federalists and the anti-federalists. The Federalists argued in favor of a strong central government, one that would not have the weaknesses of the old Articles of Confederation, while the anti-federalists were all the people who were afraid that a strong federal government would trample on the freedoms and liberties of the citizens. According to the Federalists, the Constitution granted only a few specific powers to the Federal government, and…

The primary purpose of constitutions are to place in writing the powers and limitations of a central government. In some undemocratic nations, they have a constitution that promises many rights of citizens, however, these are false, and the people usually have few freedoms.

To place limits on the power of the Federal government. If you read them carefully, they say what the government CANNOT do.

No. It is a federal district (Spanish: distrito federal) which belongs to the federation and is the place where the Mexican Federal Government is located. It is the equivalent to Washington DC in the United States.

I'm assuming you mean the American government. Washington, DC

The original US Constitution was finished on September 17, 1787. The Government began operating under the Constitution on March 4, 1789

The Framers of the US Constitution were divided concerning how much power it would give to the federal government. One group called the federalists pushed for a strong government. The anti-federalists feared for their basic civil liberties. The agreement was made to place the Bill of Rights in the new constitution. These were ten citizen rights ranging from the freedom of speech to a fair trial by a jury of one's peers.

A Democratic federal secular government system lists scheduled languages as those languages other than the official languages given a place in the constitution of a country.Often they are regional languages/languages of the minority community.

A major fear of the anti-Federalists was that individual liberties were being relegated to second place behind the powers given to the Federal government. This was due to there not being a bill of rights in the new constitution.

It is mandated by the US constitution which went into effect in 1788.

They wanted to protect individual rights

The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. However, it wasn't until September 17, 1787 that the Constitution was ratified. Before the Constitution there was another document in place called the Articles of Confederation, but they failed since they limited the power of the federal government so much that they could not properly function or get anything done.