Lesson 2

Question 1

What document is the supreme law of the land?

Answer 1

The Constitution

Question 2

What is the first part of the Constitution called?

Answer 2

Articles of Confederation

Question 3

What is a check and balance?

Answer 3

Each branch of government checks the others

Question 4

Executive (the President of the United State) does checks and balances by ___

Answer 4

Nominates federal judges
Grants pardons

Question 5

Legislative (Congress) does checks and balances by _____

Answer 5

Can rewrite legislation
Confirms federal judges

Question 6

Judicial (Supreme court) does checks and balances by ___

Answer 6

Declare the president’s actions and congressional laws as unconstitutional

Question 7

What is the Necessary and Proper (Elastic) Clause?

Answer 7

provides Congress the power to fulfill its legal powers.

Question 8

What are Reserved Powers?

Answer 8

A political power that a constitution reserves exclusively to the jurisdiction of a particular political authority.

Question 9

What are Expressed Powers?

Answer 9

The powers given to congress in the constitution

Question 10

What are the Bill of Rights?

Answer 10

The first 10 amendments in the constitution. The rights of the people over the government.

Question 11

True or False – The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Who is considered the “Father” of the Constitution?

Answer 12

James Madison

Question 13

Who was the President of the
Constitutional Convention?

Answer 13

George Washington

Question 14

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 14

Thomas Jefferson

Question 15

Name the five rights found in the 1st Amendment.

Answer 15

Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion, Assembly, and Petition

Question 16

What was the compromise at the Convention between the big states and the small that
proposed a bicameral legislature?

Answer 16

Great compromise

Question 17

What was the main purpose of the Federalist Papers?

Answer 17

To explain the newly proposed constitution

Question 18

What philosopher came up with the three branches of government?

Answer 18

Baron De Montesquieu

Question 19

How many times has the Constitution been amended?

Answer 19

27

Question 20

What court case formally established judicial review?

Answer 20

Marbury v. Madison

Question 21

What rebellion would lead to the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 21

Shays’ Rebellion

Question 22

What document talked about inalienable rights including the right to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness?

Answer 22

Declaration of Independence

Question 23

What was the first form of government in the United States?

Answer 23

Articles of Confederation