Government Test 3 Flashcards
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The characteristics and traditions that have been handed down to us by our ancestors.
Heritage
A love for one’s country and loyalty to that country.
Patriotism
The first foundational civil ordinance.
Capital punishment
According to Charles Shuman, the price of socialism.
Freedom
The upper house of Parliament.
House of Lords
The lower house of Parliament.
House of Commons
The upper house of Congress.
Senate
The lower house of Congress.
House of Representatives
A proposed new law.
Bill
A private meeting of political party members to decide on policy or to choose candidates.
Caucus
A group of people elected by the citizens of each state in order to elect a presidential candidate.
Electoral College
Commands by the President which have the force of law.
Executive Orders
A panel of advisers made up by the heads of the executive departments.
Cabinet
A large, complex organization made up of appointed officials.
Bureaucracy
The highest number of votes won, but less than a majority.
Plurality
What is represented above the head of the chief justice of the Supreme Court?
The Ten Commandments
What word that literally means “the people rule”?
Democracy
What was the greatest influence on the English nation?
The Bible
What became the model for the colonial legislatures and for the U.S. Congress?
Parliament
Which article in the Constitution established the executive branch?
Article II
From whom did the idea of separation of powers originate?
Charles de Montesquieu*
What term refers to a temporary committee composed of members of both houses for the purpose of working out a compromise on a bill?
Conference Committee
What special group of judges that presides over cases arising out of government agency decisions?
Administrative-law judges
Which amendment allows a President to be elected to only two terms and to serve for no more than 10 years?
22nd Amendment
What is it called when the government annually spends more than it receives in revenue?
Deficit Spending
Who wrote the “Star-Spangled Banner”?
Francis Scott Key
Who became the first black America to achieve the rank of four-star general?
Daniel “Chappie” James
In what form of government does the ruler exercise unlimited authority and usually inherit his position?
Absolute Monarchy
What word literally means “to rule by oneself”?
Autocracy
In what form of government does the ruler maintain absolute control of all aspects of society through coercion and subjection of the individual to the state?
Totalitarian Dictatorship
What event had an immeasurable effect upon the unity of the colonists and helped prepare them for future political, economic, and religious liberty?
The Great Awakening
Who was the member of Parliament that supported the American colonists?
Edmund Burke
Who was responsible for drafting the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What became America’s first national constitution?
Articles of Confederation
Who presided as chairman of the Constitutional Convention?
George Washington
In which article of the Constitution is the Constitution described as the “supreme law of the land”?
Article IV
How long is a presidential term?
Four Years
Who presides over the Senate when the Vice President is absent?
President Pro Tempore
This is not part of the process of how a bill becomes a law?
Vetoed by a Committee
What kind of representative votes according to his personal judgment rather than the views of his constituency?
Trustee
What powers are given explicitly to Congress by the Constitution?
Expressed Powers
What are the Constitutional qualifications for the office of President?
Natural-born citizen, U.S. resident for at least 14 years, at least 35 years old
Three of the primary roles of the President are:
Commander in chief, chief legislator, chief of state.
What kind of government agency has a single function and reports directly to the President?
Independent Executive Agency
_________________ promises success and prosperity to those who meditate on God’s laws and obey them.
Joshua 1:8
A form of government in which God Himself rules personally or through chosen representatives is called ______________
Theocracy
A ______________ is a non-codified form of law based on long-accepted customs and traditions.
Common Law
The ____________ was the first representative assembly in the colonies.
House of Bugessess
_______________________ wrote a famous work on the laws of England that explained the concepts of natural law and revealed law.
William Blackstone
______________________ wrote the final draft of the Constitution.
Gouverneur Morris
The ___________________ combined the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plans in establishing the national legislature.
The Great Compromise
__________________ refers to the division of power between the national and state governments.
Federalism
To ______________________ is to draw voting district boundaries so as to purposely favor the party in power.
Gerrymander
Only the ____________________ may introduce revenue and appropriations bills in Congress.
House of Representatives
The ________________________ for the Presidency is on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November every fourth year.
General Election Day
As __________________ the President has the power to appoint justices to the Supreme Court.
Chief Executive
_________________ have been created to regulate specific areas of American life.
Regulatory Agencies
By interfering with basic freedoms and discovering initiative, ______________________________ has generally hindered productivity and prosperity and has threatened the endurance of the American heritage.
Government Bureaucracy
__________________ was the first person to become Vice President by being nominated by the President and approved by Congress.
Gerald Ford
Placed the king under the law for the first time in English history.
Magna Carta
Strictly limited the power of the English monarch after 1689.
English Bill of Rights
Forerunner to the written constitution in America.
Mayflower Compact
Cut off all trade between the American colonies and England and removed the colonies from the “King’s Protection.”
Prohibitory Act
Formulated the basic ideas of Communism.
Karl Marx
He laid the foundation for the right to trial by jury.
Henry II
He convened the Model Parliament.
Edward I
The “Father of the Constitution.”
James Madison
The first to put Communism into practice on a large scale.
Vladimir Lenin
Established the legislative branch.
Article I
Describes the relationship between states and central government.
Article IV
Gives Congress the authority to put into operation both the expressed and implied powers.
“Necessary and Proper” Clause.
The proportional distribution of Congressional seats among the states.
Apportionment
The central government is subordinate to the states.
Confederacy
Rejection of a bill by the President.
Veto
Largest organization within the Executive Office of the President.
Office of Management and Budget.
