Gov. Test

Question 1

Three kinds of power?

Answer 1

1. Executive
2. Legislative
3. Judicial

Question 2

Democracy

Answer 2

a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives

Question 3

Dictatorship

Answer 3

government by a dictator

Question 4

Four characteristic of a state

Answer 4

settled population, a defined territory, government and the ability to enter into relations with other states.

Question 5

Autocracy

Answer 5

system of government where one person has absolute power

Question 6

Oligarchy

Answer 6

a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.

Question 7

Limited government

Answer 7

A government with limited power

Question 8

Name a duty of citizenship. Responsibility?

Answer 8

Pay taxes to fund the government

Question 9

Magna Carta

Answer 9

the one document that kicked off the government having less power, the great charter

Question 10

Albany Plan of Union

Answer 10

was a rejected plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York.

Question 11

Why did the First Continental Congress meet?

Answer 11

First meeting was held in Philadelphia to decide to take action against the king

Question 12

What were two results of the Second Continental Congress?

Answer 12

It ran the government of colonies and supported the colonies during the war. talk about whether they want to fight or to ask for a treaty

Question 13

Intolerable Acts

Answer 13

a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party

Question 14

What are three rights all people have according to the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 14

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Question 15

What were three weaknesses of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 15

Each state only had one vote in Congress, regardless of size. Congress did not have the power to tax. Congress did not have the power to regulate foreign and interstate commerce. There was no executive branch to enforce any acts passed by Congress.

Question 16

What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

Answer 16

Each slave is considered Three-fifths of a person towards population.

Question 17

Virginia Plan

Answer 17

The plan called for a legislature divided into two bodies (the Senate and the House of Representatives) with proportional representation.

Question 18

New Jersey Plan

Answer 18

designed to protect the security and power of the small states by limiting each state to one vote in Congress, as under the Articles of Confederation.

Question 19

Federalists

Answer 19

a person who supports the adoption of the U.S. Constitution

Question 20

Anti-Federalists

Answer 20

a person who opposed the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.

Question 21

Enumerated Powers

Answer 21

are the powers granted to the Federal government, and specifically Congress.

Question 22

Six Constitutional Principles

Answer 22

popular sovereignty, limited government, separation of powers, checks and balances, judicial review, and federalism.

Question 23

How are amendments proposed and ratified?

Answer 23

An amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if two-thirds of the States request one, by a convention called for that purpose. The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each State for ratification.

Question 24

Expressed Powers

Answer 24

are the powers of the national government explicitly listed in the Constitution. The purpose of expressed powers is to limit the national government by defining what it can do. These powers are also called delegated or enumerated powers.

Question 25

Implied Powers

Answer 25

Are powers of the national government that are reasonably assumed

Question 26

Elastic Clause

Answer 26

granting Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the enumerated list of powers.

Question 27

Inherent Powers

Answer 27

Those powers that belong to the National Government because it is the government of a sovereign state

Question 28

Reserved Powers

Answer 28

Those powers that the constitution does not grant to the national government, and does not, at the same time, deny to the states

Question 29

Exclusive Powers

Answer 29

These powers are delegated only to the national government and cannot be exercised by the states
1. Only given to the federal government
2.Making treaties
3. Collecting taxes on imports
4. Controlling interstate commerce

Question 30

Concurrent Powers

Answer 30

Those powers that both the national and state governments can possess and exercise

Question 31

Supremacy Clause

Answer 31

The constitution is above all other laws; it is the supreme law of the land

Question 32

Enabling Act

Answer 32

is a piece of legislation by which a legislative body grants an entity which depends on it (for authorization or legitimacy) the power to take certain actions

Question 33

Act of Admission

Answer 33

admitting a state

Question 34

Full Faith and Credit Clause

Answer 34

Public actions in one state are considered legal in all states

Question 35

Extradition

Answer 35

The legal process by which a fugitive from justice from one state is returned to the state

Question 36

Privileges and Immunities Clause

Answer 36

States may not draw unreasonable distinctions between their own residents and residents of other states