Constitution 201

Question 1

What are the three phases in American history?

Answer 1

The American Founding, the crisis of slavery and the Civil War, and the Progressive Era

Question 2

The Declaration of Independence refers to the “Laws of Nature and of _____.”

Answer 2

Nature’s God

Question 3

According to the Declaration of Independence, the primary purpose of government is _____.

Answer 3

To secure natural rights

Question 4

The three fundamental natural rights listed by the Declaration of Independence are _____.

Answer 4

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Question 5

During the Civil War, the self-evident truth of _____ was at stake.

Answer 5

Equality

Question 6

What are the three key structures in the Constitution listed as grievances against the King in the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 6

Limited government, representation, and separation of powers

Question 7

True or False: The Progressives rejected the idea of a government limited in purpose to the security of individual rights.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Which president also served as a university president?

Answer 8

Woodrow Wilson

Question 9

True or False: Many of the critiques of the King listed in the Declaration of Independence have become features of the modern bureaucratic state.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Administrative government contradicts the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution because _____.

Answer 10

• It takes sovereignty away from the people
• It rejects the idea of limited government
• It ignores the doctrine of separation of powers

Question 11

True or False: Progressivism has some roots in the pro-slavery arguments of the pre-Civil War South, insofar as both believe that modern science renders the principles of the American Founding invalid.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Woodrow Wilson rejected the Constitution’s separation of powers because it did not take into account the _____ growth of society.

Answer 12

Darwinian

Question 13

True or False: Progressives believe that the scientific guidance of government can improve, and even perfect, human nature.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

The president most successful in institutionalizing a Progressive administrative state was _____.

Answer 14

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 15

Progressives understand the word “equality” to mean that _____.

Answer 15

All human beings have the right to possess economic and material equality

Question 16

True or False: The American Founders and the Progressives would agree that their definitions of equality are mutually compatible.

Answer 16

False