Government Chapters 1-5
What important event occurred three weeks before the Second Continental Congress met?(Ch.2Test)
"The shot heard 'round the world"
How many senators per state?(Ch.5WKST)
2
Term amount for a member of the House of representatives?(Ch.5WKST)
2
Term amount for a senator?(Ch.5WKST)
6
To serve in the House of Rep. you must have been a US citizen for how many years?(Ch.5WKST)
7
For the Confederation Congress to pass any major legislation, how many states had to agree?(Ch.2Test)
9
Writ of habeas corpus(Ch.5WKST)
A court order that forces the police to present a person in court to face charges
Impeachment(Ch.5WKST)
A formal accusation of wrongdoing against a public official. According to the United States Constitution, the House of Representatives can vote to impeach an official, but the Senate actually tries the case.
Republican ideas can be traced back to when?(Ch.2Test)
Ancient Greece and Rome
What is a legislative power that is part of the systems of checks and balances?(Ch.3Test)
Appointing federal judges
What ancient greek scholar was one of the first students of government(Ch.1Test)
Aristotle
Commerce clause(Ch.5WKST)
Article 1 Section 8 Clause 3, if the constitution states that commerce powers are granted to the government
The New Jersey plan was designed to stay closer to which document?(Ch.2Test)
Articles of Confederation
How much time does Senate get to debate?(Ch.5WKST)
As much time as they want(unlimited)
The right to a speedy trial is guaranteed by the...?(Ch.3Test)
Bill of Rights
supreme court case which stipulated that schools must be open to all races and peoples (Ch.1Test)
Brown V. Board of Education Topeaka
Thomas Jefferson argued in The Declaration of Independence that, if a government disregard the will of the people, the people are free to...?(Ch.2Test)
Change their government
What is a reason the Constitution has endured for more than 200 years?(Ch.3Test)
Changing ideas of liberty can be incorporated by amendments
The Petition of Right resulted from a conflict between which two groups?(Ch.2Test)
Charles 1 and the Parliament
Who would be judge for the impeachment of Vice President or President?(Ch.5WKST)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Constitutional Law (Ch.1Test)
Concerned with the limits of government and the rights of the citizens
Example of legislative action(Ch.3Test)
Congress passes laws to create a new government agency
Oversight (Ch.5WKST)
Congress's power to review the Executive branch and make sure they are following the laws Congress passed
What two groups do members of Congress represent (Ch.5WKST)
Constituents and the nation
Which document was passed by Parliament in the Glorious Revolution?(Ch.2Test)
English Bill of Rights
The power of the president to enter into agreements with foreign leaders or governments is an example of which of the following?(Ch.3Test)
Executive implementation
What factor led to the passage of the Twent-second Amendment limiting presidents to two terms?(Ch.3Test)
Franklin Roosevelt's stay in office
Which colony did not send delegates to the First Conventional Congress in Philadelphia? (Ch.2Test)
Georgia
Preamble to the Constitution (Ch.1Test)
Goals and purposes of the government expressed in one passage
Necessary and Proper Clause(Ch.5WKST)
Grants congress its implied powers
What ideal did the Antifederalists find the Constitution lacked?(Ch.2Test)
Individual Rights
Who wrote that all people have a right to "life, liberty, and property"(Ch.1Test)
John Locke
Sometimes the house and senate form a...?(Ch.5WKST)
Joint committee
Bill of Attainder (Ch.5WKST)
Law that punishes a person without a trial
Ex Post Facto Laws(Ch.5WKST)
Laws that criminalizes an action that took place in the past and was legal at the time it was occurred
Subpoenas (Ch.5WKST)
Legal document that requires a person to testify in court
The Framers took the idea of separation of powers from which philosopher?(Ch.2Test)
Machiavelli
What was the Confederation Congress's greatest success?(Ch.2Test)
Passage of the Northwest Ordinance
What was the most pressing challenge facing the confederation congress?(Ch.2Test)
Paying off war debt
What is one characteristic of a republic form of government?(Ch.3Test)
People elect others to represent them
Bills are (Ch.5WKST)
Proposed laws
Every 10 years the House of Reps. must undergo...?(Ch.5WKST)
Reapportionment (redistribution of seats)
Why did large states favor the Virginia Plan?(Ch.2Test)
Representation in the legislature would be based on population
Delegates gathered in Philadelphia in May 1787 to do what?(Ch.2Test)
Revise the Articles of Confederation
Washington's Cabinet(Ch.3Test)
Secretary of State- Thomas Jefferson Secretary of Treasury- Alexander Hamilton Secretary of War- Henry Knox Attorney General- Edmund Randolph
Who has the power to decide Vice President is there is a tie? (Ch.5WKST)
Senate
What event showed how feeble the Confederation Congress was and hastened moves to revise the Articles of Confederation?(Ch.2Test)
Shay's Rebellion
What authorized federal governments to collect an income tax?(Ch.3Test)
Sixteenth Amendment
Why did the Civil War Amendments have little effect in the South until 1965?(Ch.3Test)
Southern States passed the Jim Crowe Laws
Most powerful person in the house is...?(Ch.5WKST)
Speaker of the house
The house has 20...?(Ch.5WKST)
Standing committees
Who originally elected senators instead of the people?(Ch.5WKST)
State legislatures
Who has the final authority on deciding wether or not a law in constitutional?(Ch.3Test)
Supreme Court
Indirect tax(Ch.5WKST)
Tax levied on one person then passed to another for payment to the government
Direct tax(Ch.5WKST)
Tax that an individual pays directly to the government
The Stamp Act marked Parliments first attempt to what...?(Ch.2Test)
Tax the colony directly
Why did the colonists resent the taxes imposed by parliament beginning in 1764?(Ch.2Test)
The colonists had no representation in Parliament
Deficit (Ch.5WKST)
The government revenues are lower than the expenses (they don't make enough)
What is the power of the purse? Hoe does it act as a check on the power of the executive branch?(Ch.5WKST)
The power to approve spending by the federal government, congress can prevent the executive branch from carrying out policies they (congress) disagree with
When the original constitution was ratified in 1789, who had the power to establish qualifications for voting?(Ch.3Test)
The states
How did the Framers bypass Congress and State legislatures in the process of ratifying the new constitution?(Ch.2Test)
They called for state legislatures hold a state ratifying convention
How does congress balance the needs of the constituents and the nation?(Ch.5WKST)
They keep the two groups in mind when making decisions
Why did Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Maddison write the Federlist papers?(Ch.2Test)
They wrote the articles in defense of the new constitution
Who said, that in its natural state humankind would be "nasty, brutish, and short?"(Ch.1Test)
Thomas Hobbes
How many votes are needed to expel a Senate member?(Ch.5WKST)
Two thirds (majority vote)
Each party elects a...?(Ch.5WKST)
Whip, to encourage members to vote how the party wants
What is a criticism of the constitution?(Ch.3Test)
Winners of the popular vote may not take the presidency
Approbation (Ch.5WKST)
a bill that sets aside funds for a specific purpose
What is the main responsibility of executive branch agencies ?(Ch.3Test)
carrying out programs assigned by congress
The Senate's power to approve international treaties negotiated by the president is an example of...?(Ch.3Test)
checks and balances
When the president vetoes a law passed by congress he is using...?(Ch.3Test)
checks and balances
Communist countries generally have a...?(Ch.1Test)
command economy
A loose union of independent states (Ch.1Test)
confederacy or confederal system
What was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?(Ch.2Test)
congress lacked the power to tax
plan that provides rules for government is called...?(Ch.1Test)
constitution
these nations are in the early stages of industry and technology(Ch.1Test)
developing nations
Who holds the actual power to elect the president according to the Constitution?(Ch.3Test)
electoral college
This system divides the power between the state and national governments(Ch.1Test)
federal
divine right theory (Ch.1Test)
gods choose rulers
force theory(Ch.1Test)
government is created when people are ruled under one person or group
What power does the judicial branch of government hold?(Ch.3Test)
interpreting laws
The Supreme Court applies the Constitution to modern day cases in a process called...?(Ch.3Test)
judicial interpretation
The 1803 landmark Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison established the principle of...?(Ch.3Test)
judicial review
What was Thaddeus Stevens asking for when he was speaking to the Pennsylvania State legislature (Ch.1Test)
legislative funding for education
When the territory of both the nation and the state coincide, or are the same, the country is a...?(Ch.1Test)
nation-sate
Magna Carta was originally intended to protect the rights of which group?(Ch.2Test)
nobles
form of government that is ruled by few(Ch.1Test)
oligarchy
social contract theory(Ch.1Test)
people surrender in order to maintain power
The phrase of "We the People" relates to which of the following principles of the constitution?(Ch.3Test)
popular sovereignty
the form of democracy we have in this country is called (Ch.1Test)
representative democracy or a republic
the four essential features of a state, or nation, include government, population, territory and...?(Ch.1Test)
sovereignty
evolutionary theory (Ch.1Test)
state evolved from family
What is the purpose of the Preamble of the Constitution?(Ch.3Test)
states the goals for the new government
democracy (Ch.1Test)
system of government which is ruled by the people
Apportionment(Ch.5WKST)
the distribution of seats in the House of Representatives based on population
capitalism (Ch.1Test)
the economic system in which freedom of choice is emphasized
Constituents(Ch.5WKST)
the people that live within the geographic area represented by a member of congress
Why did the colonial assemblies reject the Albany Plan of Union?(Ch.2Test)
they feared the plan gave too much power to the crown
this system of government gives all the key powers the national government(Ch.1Test)
unitary
Political parties(Ch.1Test)
win elections conduct government nominate candidates for office determine public policy