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.