Chp 2

Question 1

What is a nation’s basic law, that creates institutions and assigns and/or divides powers in government?

Answer 1

Constitution

Question 2

What is the document approved by representatives of the american colonies in 1776?

Answer 2

Declaration of Independence

Question 3

What are the rights inherent to human beings, which include life, liberty, and property?

Answer 3

Natural Rights

Question 4

What is the idea that gov. derives its authority by sanction of the people?

Answer 4

Consent of the governed

Question 5

What is the idea that certain restrictions should be placed on gov. to protect the natural rights of citizens?

Answer 5

Limited government

Question 6

What is the first constitution of the U.S.?

Answer 6

Articles of Confederation

Question 7

What were the series of attacks on courthouses by a small band of farmers called?

Answer 7

Shay’s Rebellion

Question 8

What is the document written in 1787 and ratified in 1788?

Answer 8

U.S. Constitution

Question 9

what were the interest groups that arose from the unequal distrbution of property or wealth that James Madison attacked in Federalist Paper No. 10?

Answer 9

Factions

Question 10

what was the proposal at the constitutional convention that called for equal representation of each state in congress, regardless of the state’s population?

Answer 10

New Jersey Plan

Question 11

What was the proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for representation of each state in congress to proportion to that state’s share of the U.S. population?

Answer 11

Virginia Plan

Question 12

What was the compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention that established two houses of Congress?

Answer 12

Connecticut Compromise

Question 13

what is a court order that requires jailers to explain to a judge why they are holding a prisoner in custody?

Answer 13

Writ of habeus corpus

Question 14

What is the feature of the constitution that requires each of the three branches of gov. to be relatively independent of the others so that one cannot control the others?

Answer 14

Separation of Powers

Question 15

What are features of the Constitution that limit the gov. power by requiring that power be balanced among the different gov. institutions?

Answer 15

Checks and Balances

Question 16

What is a form of gov. in which the people select representatives that govern them and make laws?

Answer 16

Republic

Question 17

Who are supporters of the U.S. constitution at the time the states were contemplating its adoption?

Answer 17

Federalists

Question 18

Who were the opponents of the American Constitution?

Answer 18

Anti-Federalists

Question 19

What were the collection of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison called?

Answer 19

Federalists Papers

Question 20

What are the fist 10 amendments to the U.S. constitution?

Answer 20

Bill of Rights

Question 21

what was the constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1972 that stated “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or by any state on account of sex.”?

Answer 21

Equal Rights Amendment

Question 22

What was the 1803 case in which chief justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. constitution?

Answer 22

Marbury v. Madison

Question 23

what is the power of the courts to determine whether acts of congress are in accord with the constitution?

Answer 23

Judicial Review