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Question 1

what is fundamentalist law

Answer 1

includes the basic principles of a government, its structure, and the conditions under which it governs

Question 2

who writes statutory laws

Answer 2

legislature

Question 3

what is statutory law

Answer 3

written law passed by a body of legislature. This is as opposed to oral or customary law; or regulatory law promulgated by the executive or common law of the judiciary.

Question 4

What are the two most important features of The Constitution?

Answer 4

two most important features of The Constitution?
the concept of a written constitution
and popular ratification.

Question 5

What does The Constitution include?

Answer 5

the Magna Carta, The Bill of Rights (1689), The Great Reform Act, other acts by Parliament, court decisions, and traditions.

Question 6

Before the revolutionary war, what were the colonies referred as?

Answer 6

as a moneymaker for Great Britain.

Question 7

What was a tool of corrupt power according to a republican?

Answer 7

standing armies

Question 8

what were some of the powers colonial governors had?

Answer 8

judicial power, which enabled him to to replace judges and prerogative power, which enabled him to dismiss colonial assemblies.

Question 9

what are natural rights and where did they come from?

Answer 9

are fundamental rights all people have by virtue of their birth
came from the enlightenment

Question 10

what is self-evident truth

Answer 10

is a concept accepted as true and not needing proof because it is clearly accepted as such.

Question 11

what two people helped frame the question, “where do self-evident truths come from and how did they become part of the Constitutional expectation in the United States?”

Answer 11

thomas hobbes

john locke

Question 12

what is the state of nature

Answer 12

maximum liberty but little security for people and their property

Question 13

Locke argued that Hobbes’ concept of the state of nature was wrong and called this stage of existence __________.

Answer 13

State of Natural Law

Question 14

what is mercantilism

Answer 14

belief in the benefits of profitable trading

viewed wealth as finite, and its proponents argued that the road to prosperity for an empire was to prevent its wealth from leaking out of its borders.

Question 15

when and what were the navigation acts

Answer 15

(1651 and 1733)
it limited the types of goods that could be traded outside of the empire (especially with the Dutch), the types of ships that could be used, and the crew makeup that could conduct international trade.

Question 16

what was the proclamation line of 1763

Answer 16

was an imaginary line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, used for telling American colonists they were forbidden to move west of that line and settlers west of that line were required to move east of the line and all traders who did business with Indians had to secure licenses from the British.

Question 17

what was the quebec act

Answer 17

Former French officials were allowed to continue as administrators in the colony because they already knew their jobs; there was no need to change.

Question 18

what was the revenue act

Answer 18

It required all merchant ships to purchase permits to load and unload for both coastal and trans-Atlantic voyages.

Question 19

what was the quatering act

Answer 19

Americans would be required to provide some shelter for the troops while barracks were built.

Question 20

what was the stamp act

Answer 20

A fee levied tax on legal documents; almanacs; newspapers and playing cards. All duties were to be paid in pounds sterling not colonial currency.

Question 21

what where townshend duties

Answer 21

This act placed taxes on common items used every day.

Question 22

what was the currency act

Answer 22

The act forbade colonies to print paper money but some did anyway and this was a constant irritant through 1774.

Question 23

what was the boston massacre

Answer 23

On March 5th, 1770 a group of colonists were taunting soldiers, the soldiers opened fire into the crowd of people, killing 5 people. This caused a period of relative peace because people were scared of what had just happened.

Question 24

what was the government’s response to the boston massacre

Answer 24

effectively suspending the Massachusetts assembly and making the governor’s council appointed instead of elected.

(the coercive acts)

Question 25

what was the tea act

Answer 25

Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies - undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party

Question 26

What did a colonist call a direct tax?

Answer 26

duties on legal documents

Question 27

Why was Thomas Jefferson the person enlisted to write the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 27

He was the best writer of the group and He was from Virginia, not Massachusetts, and his authorship showed more universal support for independence.