Government Unit 1 Test

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Outlines the structure and major powers of the legislative branch

Article I

This amendment states six separate rights relating to religion, free expression and the right to complain about the government.

1st Amendment

This Amendment guarantees that a criminal defendant receives a speedy, public, local, jury trial

6th Amendment

The Connecticut Compromise saved the Convention with a proposal that included all of the following, except:

A list of rights guaranteed for all free people

What are the twenty-seven changes/additions to the Constitution referred to as?

Amendments

Outlines the structure and major powers of the executive branch

Article II

Outlines the structure and major powers of the judicial branch

Article III

The first ten additions of the Constitution, promised to the Anti-Federalists during the fight for ratification

Bill of Rights

Keep all the branches in check with each other

Checks and balances

Which of the following is NOT an example of how the Constitution can been informally amended?

Congress recently passed the Affordable Care Act

This document is considered the supreme law of the land in America

Constitution

Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea rules a country in which the central government holds all power. North Korea's structure of government is:

Dictatorship, autocracy, unitary

This concept requires the government to follow certain procedures, designed to protect individual rights, before it can deprive an individual of his or her life, liberty or property

Due Process

When a government enforces its laws, it uses its ____________________ power.

Executive

A __________________________________ government is one in which powers of government are divided between a central government and regional governments.

Federal

Divides power between state and national

Federalism

Which of the following groups favored ratification of the Constitution?

Federalists

A proposal by 2/3 vote in each house of congress with 3/4ths of state legislatures ratifying is one way to _____________ the constitution

Formally amend

Which idea is NOT included in the Declaration of Independence?

God has given people the right to govern

What is the institution through which society makes and enforces public policy?

Government

People act in their own self-interest, so without a government to establish rule of law life is "solitary, nasty, poor, brutish and short." He's was a "the glass is half empty" kind of guy.

Hobbes

The United States has a representative democracy, in which people choose leaders to carry out the popular will. What is another term for this?

Indirect Democracy

This government, while sharing a monarchy with Great Britain, is also known as a Common Wealth Government. This government elects a majority party into the House of Representatives. The Prime Minister is then drawn from this group and serves as the chief executive. Both the central government and the six state governments share governmental power.

Indirect democracy, federal, parliamentary

Which form of government does the United States have?

Indirect democracy, federal, presidential

Which power of government interprets laws to ensure they are constitutional?

Judicial

Which power of government allows for the creation of laws?

Legislative

The idea that government is restricted in what it may do

Limited Government

According to this philosophers idea of Social Contract theory, humans are born with certain inalienable & natural rights. Among these rights are life, liberty, and property.

Locke

In order to guarantee one person or group doesn't take too much power, the government should be divided into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.

Montesquieu

The concept that orderly regulation is necessary for peaceful relationships with others in a society

Ordered Government

Power to the people (majority rule with minority rights)

Popular sovereignty

Introduction and purpose of the Constitution

Preamble

In a ___________________ democracy, the legislative and executive branches are completely separated (independent and coequal), while in a __________________ democracy, the legislative and executive branches are intertwined as the legislature chooses the chief executive.

Presidential; parliamentary

What are all the things the government decides to do including making laws a part of?

Public Policy

The following were problems arising from the Articles of Confederation, except:

Representation in Congress was based on state population, which meant Virginia always had the most power in the legislature.

The idea that government should serve the will of the people

Representative Government

In this government type people vote for representative to represent them in government.

Republic

A government is given legitimacy by the will of the people, so people must be allowed to vote directly on a variety of issues (i.e. direct democracy)

Rousseau

All branches have even power

Separation of powers

The United States doesn't have to listen to what other countries tell it to do because of the concept of:

Sovereignty

This document established Americas first government separate from Great Britain. It lacked centralized power, resulting in the need for state delegates to meet and discuss revisions

The Articles of Confederate

This document was created because King George III proved non-responsive to repeated protests and written complaints from colonists who were fed up with unfair representation, among many other things.

The Declaration of Independence

For those opposed to ratification, which of the following was not a major argument?

Things are going well under the Articles of Confederation so there is no need for a change.

A ___________________________ government is one in which power is held by a single, central agency.

Unitary

Requiring "probable cause" to search was the Founding Fathers' attempt to:

limit the ability of the police to interfere at will in the lives of individual citizens

The first ten amendments to the Constitution were added in order to protect:

the rights of individuals from the power of the federal government


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