GOVT 2305
Executive Branch
Enforces laws
13th
Freedom for all slaves- amendment?
Every 10 years
How often are congressional districts redrawn to reflect population changes?
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
If the president is being tried, who is to preside over the Senate?
Judicial Branch
Interprets the laws
to amend the Articles of Confederation
Why did the framers originally meet in Philadelphia in 1787?
Ten
How many amendments were ratified and adopted as the Bill of Rights?
Ted Cruz
American politician and attorney who has served as the junior United States Senator from Texas since 2013. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election
John Cornyn
American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States Senator from Texas since 2002. A member of the Republican Party, he is the current Senate Majority Whip for the 115th Congress.
14th
Citizenship- amendment
Civil Liberties
Constitutional freedoms guaranteed to all citizens
presidental candidate
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States, the selection of a vice presidential running mate was made by the
political equality
Each citizen having one vote demonstrates
Checks and Balances
Giving each branch some degree of oversight of the other branches is called
Two
How many U.S. senators represent each state?
Less possibility of one faction gaining a majority
In Federalist No. 10, James Madison speaks to the Constitution's ability to weaken the "mischiefs of faction." What issue was he addressing?
16th
Income tax- amendment
26th
Right to vote for 18 year olds- amendment
15th
Right to vote for black men- amendment
19th
Right to vote for women- amendment
common people
The Greek word demos, which is the root of the term democracy, means
The Lemon Test includes which of the following?
The government's action must not have the primary effect of either advancing or inhibiting religion
Tyranny
What did the framers of the Constitution hope to avoid by establishing three separate but overlapping branches of government?
2/3
What fraction of Congress does it take to override a veto of the president?
all levels of government
What level of government does the Bill of Rights apply?
Virginia Plan
What plan at the Philidelphia Convention favored the large states because it wanted representation based on population?
the particular state's governor
When a vacancy occurs in Congress, who does the Constitution authorize to appoint replacements?
Under the Articles of Confederation
When did the United States operate under a confederal system?
Declaration of Independence
Which document broke our ties with mother England?
Thomas Jefferson
Which early American leader championed Locke's philosophy?
Freedom of speech
Which of the following is an example of a civil liberty?
Richard Nixon
Which president was discredited when it was learned that the president's reelection campaign had conducted an illegal break-in of the opposition party's headquarters?
Thomas Jefferson
Who was the principle author of the Declaration of Independence?
Capitalism
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
National Sovereignty
each national government is given the right to govern its own people as it wishes and no other nation can interfere with that
Capitalism is best described as a
economic system in which production and property are privately owned, with a minimum of government interference
According to Thomas Hobbes, author of Leviathan, the proper objective of government is to
maintain order
Legislative Branch
makes the law
Straw Poll
random sampling, usually asking for preferences of candidates.
The Fourteenth Amendment ensured that the
states could not infringe on the rights of citizenship
meaning of freely-given confessions
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court defined the
has legitimate potential to do harm to others without redeeming value
The First Amendment does not protect speech that
A strict constructionist believes
that the government's powers outside the enumerated powers of Article I, Section 8, are extremely limited.