Chapter 2
The U.S. Constitution contains about _________ words.
4,300
The ________ Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
4th
Before it could take effect, the Constitution had to be ratified by__________ states:
9
Including the Bill of Rights, __________ amendments have been added to the Constitution:
27
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson's statement that "all men are created equal" is similar to which theorist's belief that government is based on the "consent of the governed"?
John Locke
The Great Compromise was also known as the __________ Compromise because of the state delegation that initially proposed it.
Connecticut
By 2012, members of the European Union (EU) agreed to greater central authority over their respective economies, with the exception of
Great Britian
Under the Constitution, if no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote, then the president will be selected by the
House of Representatives
According to the New Jersey Plan, how was representation to be structured in Congress?
One house would exist, and all states would have equal representation in it.
Which of the following states was not present at the Second Continental Congress' vote for independence?
Rhode Island
The compact among the thirteen original colonies that established the United States in 1777 was known as the
The Articles of Confederation
The text of the Constitution deals with slavery by referring to slaves as
all other persons
When selecting the president, each state has a number of electors equal to
the number of senators and representatives
The power of the president to veto laws is an example of
checks and balances
The 2007 European Reform Treaty did all but
create a centralized debt-refinancing agency for indebted countries. *
Congress exercises a potential check on the judicial branch through its constitutional power to
create or eliminate lower federal courts.
One similarity between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan was that both plans
left unspecified how many people the executive might have.
The "unalienable rights" identified by the Declaration of Independence are
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
The primary contribution of the Federalist papers is
The primary contribution of the Federalist papers is
Republicanism is a form of government in which power
resides in the people and is exercised by their elected representatives
A republic is a government
resting on the consent of the governed through their representatives.
The assignment in the Constitution of lawmaking, law-enforcing, and law-interpreting functions to the legislative, executive, and judicial branches respectively is known as
separation of powers
After the Constitution was amended to permit the federal government to levy a progressive income tax, government could more effectively further the goal of
social equality
A result of the Second Continental Congress was
the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
A confederation can best be described as
a loose association of independent states
The primary goal of Federalist No. 51 was to argue for
the separation of powers and checks and balances
Shays's Rebellion consisted of
this conflict in Massachusetts caused many to criticize the Articles of Confederation and admit the weak central government was not working; uprising led by Daniel Shays in an effort to prevent courts from foreclosing on the farms of those who could not pay the taxes
The __________ Amendment prohibited slavery.
13th
American colonists in the eighteenth century under Great Britain
*
A key component of the Virginia Plan was
A strong national legislature
The Federalist papers were written by _____.
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison.
Under separation of powers, the U.S. system keeps power among branches balanced by enabling one branch to counter the actions of another by the use of
Checks and balances
A constitutional clause that allows for a broad interpretation of implied powers is known as a(n) __________ clause.
Elastic
Which document proclaimed, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"?
The Declaration of Independence
A group of delegates to the Constitutional Convention proposed a powerful national government to replace the weak confederation of states. This was known as the
The Virginia Plan
Which of the following is not a power granted to the president under the Constitution?
The power to declare war
According to the text, "it is hard to imagine a government framework better suited [than the Constitution] to __________."
The pluralist model
The Articles of Confederation failed because
there wasn't a strong central government *
To amend the Articles of Confederation required a
unanimous vote of all 13 states