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