AP GOV D: Chapter Two True or False
Amendments to the Constitution over the nationʹs history have expanded the American electorate by extending the right to vote to women, non-whites, and 18 year-olds, thus further democratizing our system of government.
TRUE
Burning the flag is a legally protected form of political expression.
TRUE
Most delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 held a cynical view of human nature.
TRUE
Technology has had the effect of diminishing the separation of the people from those who exercise power.
TRUE
The Constitution created a Republic.
TRUE
The Constitution obligated the new government to repay all the public debt incurred under the Continental Congress and the Articles of Confederation.
TRUE
The founders believed that state governments, where most of the governmental activity was expected to take place, would act as checks on the power of the national government.
TRUE
The philosophy of the writers of the Constitution was based in part on the belief that the principal object of government was the preservation of property.
TRUE
The president has no formal role in amending the Constitution.
TRUE
The system of checks and balances and the separation of powers in the Constitution have a conservative bias because they favor the status quo.
TRUE
A Constitution is never neutral.
TRUE
The Constitution usually means what the Supreme Court says it means
TRUE
According to James Madison, factions arise from the unequal distribution of wealth.
TRUE
Informal changes to the Constitution have been rare and ineffective.
FALSE
Nearly every successful amendment to the Constitution has been proposed by a national convention.
FALSE
The Annapolis meeting of 1787 produced the first real reform of the Articles of Confederation.
FALSE
The Bill of Rights had to be added to the Constitution before any states would ratify it.
FALSE
The Connecticut Compromise at the Constitutional Convention led to an agreement that slaves would be counted as three-fifths persons in the census for purposes of determining representation in Congress.
FALSE
The Connecticut Compromise gives more power to the House of Representatives.
FALSE
The Constitution requires a member of the electoral college to vote for the candidate preferred
FALSE
The Constitution was intended to be static
FALSE
The Constitution was unanimously approved and signed by every delegate attending the Constitutional Convention.
FALSE
The Declaration of Independence was written primarily by James Madison.
FALSE
The three-fifths compromise at the Constitutional Convention resolved delegatesʹ differences over the issue of state representation.
FALSE
Those who opposed the ratification of the Constitution were known as Federalists.
FALSE
Women were given the right to vote in the Nineteenth Amendment, passed in 1820.
FALSE
