AP GOV D: Chapter Two True or False

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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


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