Gov test #1

Question 1

What are the eligibility requirements for President

Answer 1

Must be a U.S citizen, at least 35 years old, have been a resident of the U.S for at least 14 years.

Question 2

Which Article of the Constitution is longer and more detailed

Answer 2

Article 1

Question 3

Who has the Power to declare war

Answer 3

Congress

Question 4

What is the standard for presidential impeachment

Answer 4

Must be convicted of treason major crime Or bribery

Question 5

What is the ex post facto clause

Answer 5

An ex post facto law is a law passed after the occurrence of an event or action which retrospectively changes the legal consequences of the event or actio

Question 6

What is required for confirming a presidential appointee

Answer 6

The Senate Judiciary Committee conducts hearings, questioning nominees to determine their suitability. At the close of confirmation hearings, the Committee votes on whether the nomination should go to the full Senate with a positive, negative or neutral report.

Question 7

What is required for ratifying an amendment and proposing an amendment

Answer 7

For ratifying it has to be approved by three fourths of state legislators and citizens elect delegates to convention is three fourths of state delegates/

For repealing you have to cancel or revoked by a legislative act.you cannot take away in a amendment you can only add one

Question 8

What is in the first amendment

Answer 8

People have the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, Freedom of assembly, freedom of press, And the right to protection from the government

Question 9

What is the second amendment

Answer 9

People have the right to have a weapon to protect themselves

Question 10

What is the fourth amendment

Answer 10

The government cannot arrest the person or sent to their property unless there’s a probable cause

Question 11

What is the 10th amendment

Answer 11

Any power that the Constitution does not get the federal government belongs to the states

Question 12

What were the post-Civil War amendments

Answer 12

13 through 15 amendments

Question 13

What did the 16th amendment do

Answer 13

Congress had tax income

Question 14

What did the 17th amendment do

Answer 14

People can elect US senators

Question 15

What does the 19th amendment do

Answer 15

Gives all the female citizens the right to vote

Question 16

What does the 24th amendment do

Answer 16

It’s illegal to make a citizen pay to vote or take a reading test to vote

Question 17

How many amendments in the Constitution

Answer 17

27

Question 18

But clause has expanded federal power

Answer 18

The commerce clause

gives the federal government the ability to regulate commerce between the US Gov and foreign states, as well as between the states. It also allows Congress to regulate commerce with American Indians. Because of this, the power of the federal government was greatly expanded due to the power it has in dealing with all different sorts of trade, and the things associated with trade, such as tariffs etc

Question 19

What is the ex post facto law

Answer 19

A law that makes illegal an active that was legal when committed, increases the penalties for an infraction after it has been committed, or changes the rules of evidence to make conviction easier. The Constitution prohibits the making of ex post facto law.

Question 20

What are reserved powers for Congress

Answer 20

Declare war, negotiate treaties, issue money, Regulate interstate/foreign trade, maintain a military

Question 21

What does the eighth amendment do

Answer 21

The government cannot demand excessive bail or fines or any unusual punishment

Question 22

What does the 27th amendment do

Answer 22

Congress must limit when and how much members are getting paid

Question 23

Who has the power to impeach, Who tries impeachments

Answer 23

The House of Representatives has the power to impeach. The Senate has the power to try all impeachments

Question 24

What is the formula for the presidential elections

Answer 24

The electoral college

Question 25

What are the unalienable rights in the declaration of independence

Answer 25

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Question 26

What was the new England Confederation

Answer 26

Defend against Indians

Question 27

What event called for the first Continental Congress

Answer 27

The intolerable acts

Question 28

Why did founders fear democracy

Answer 28

He feared a destructiveness that a majority my make by trying to make everyone equal

Question 29

What is Confederacy

Answer 29

a group of people, countries, organizations, etc., that are joined together in some activity or effort.

Question 30

Document that provided English man the rule of spate from the Monarch

Answer 30

Magna Carta

Question 31

What was the English Bill of Rights

Answer 31

William the third and Mary the second swearing to govern people

Question 32

What caused the founders to revise the articles of Confederation

Answer 32

The desire for a stronger federal government

Question 33

What was the Connecticut compromise

Answer 33

Combined elements of the New Jersey and Virginia plan

Bicameral legislature

Senate-State equality

House of representatives – representation based on State population

Question 34

What did Federalist papers 10 and 51 argue

Answer 34

Argue that the Constitution would balance the balance The influence of actions

Question 35

Why were the Federalist papers written

Answer 35

To sway the people into thinking that the Constitution is a good thing

Question 36

Why was the Bill of Rights added

Answer 36

Since the Constitution weakened the state gov people needed their rights to be protected from the federal government

Question 37

What was the Northwest ordinance of 1787

Answer 37

created a system for admitting new states, bill of rights that guaranteed representative government, religious freedom, trail by juries

Question 38

What strong government state anti-Federalist favor

Answer 38

State governments

Question 39

What was the social contract theory

Answer 39

Formed as a result of people agreeing among themselves to submit to the authority of a state

Question 40

What are the three p’s of the government

Answer 40

People, powers, policies

Question 41

Why did framers fear majority rule

Answer 41

The framers did not want one person or group of people having too much power.

Question 42

Why did framers fear mob rule

Answer 42

Same reason why they feared direct democracy

Question 43

What principle of democracy holds the government accountable to laws

Answer 43

The rule of law

Question 44

What form of government has elected representatives

Answer 44

Representative democracy

Question 45

What is a limited government

Answer 45

restricted with reference to governing powers by limitations prescribed in laws and in a constitution

Limited government is defined as a governing or controlling body whose power exists only within pre-defined limits that are established by a constitution or other source of authority.

Question 46

What’s are public goods

Answer 46

A benefit or well-being of the public

Question 47

What is the government

Answer 47

is made of up of the formal institutions and processes through which decisions are made for a group of people