Test 1

Question 0

What is a government?

Answer 0

The organization of people under authority (we have thousands of governments in America

Question 1

What is power?

Answer 1

The ability to get someone to do as you want them to do.

Question 2

What is formal authority and why is it important?

Answer 2

Formal authority is based in a specific government office, it is important because it helps to prevent the abuse of power.

Question 3

What are the bourgeois & the working class?

Answer 3

The bourgeois are the wealthy elite, proletariats are the working class and they are the mass

Question 4

What is the pluralist theory?

Answer 4

Considered to be the most plausible and most adequate

Question 5

What are federalist papers?

Answer 5

A collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution.

Question 6

Define an elite and elitism.

Answer 6

An Elite is a small group of people who posses a disproportionate amount of some valued resource. Elitism is a leadership or rule by an elite.

Question 7

What is ratification?

Answer 7

Approval from the legislative branch required to validate government agreement

Question 8

What was the idea behind the New Jersey Plan?

Answer 8

Created by William Paterson, it stated that a “one house” legislature in which all states would have an equal # of votes

Question 9

What is federalism?

Answer 9

Division of power between the national & state government by the constitution

Question 10

What is the Unitary System?

Answer 10

The opposite of a Confederal System, it allows the central government more power

Question 11

What is the Confederal System?

Answer 11

A mode of government in which a # of smaller states choose to delegate some of their policy making rights to a central body

Question 12

Why did the Constitution fail to ban slavery?

Answer 12

It had no support from the Southern states

Question 13

What is “inherent power”?

Answer 13

Sovereignty

Question 14

What are reserved powers?

Answer 14

Found in Amendment X, the power to regulate intra state commerce

Question 15

What is the Supremacy Clause and where is it found?

Answer 15

In the event of a conflict between state and federal law, federal law prevails. It is found in Article VI.

Question 16

What is Horizontal Federalism and what is it’s goal?

Answer 16

Deals with the relationship between states. It’s goal is to prevent states from selling themselves apart from each other.

Question 17

What are examples of Concurrent powers?

Answer 17

The power to tax, levy taxes, conduct elections, establish bankruptcy laws, and create lower courts

Question 18

What are the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 18

The United States’ first constitution

Question 19

What guaranteed equal representation?

Answer 19

The Articles of Confederation

Question 20

What was a significant fact about the government?

Answer 20

It’s weakness

Question 21

What did the Virginia Plan propose?

Answer 21

Proposed a stronger national government & a congress based on numerical representation

Question 22

What is the majority of our country?

Answer 22

A Unitary System

Question 23

What does the Central Government have more power over?

Answer 23

The States

Question 24

What is a project grant?

Answer 24

Type of categorical grant, given by the federal government to state and local government on the basis of merit

Question 25

How many Articles of Confederation and Amendments are in the Constitution?

Answer 25

7 articles and 27 amendments

Question 26

What are the Bill of Rights?

Answer 26

The first 10 amendments, in them you will find our basic human rights

Question 27

Where is the right to bear arms?

Answer 27

II

Question 28

Right to Assemble? (Freedom of Speech)

Answer 28

I

Question 29

Public trial?

Answer 29

VI

Question 30

Double Jeopardy?

Answer 30

V

Question 31

Cruel and Unusual punishment?

Answer 31

VIII

Question 32

Search & Seizure?

Answer 32

IV

Question 33

Self incrimination?

Answer 33

V

Question 34

Right of trial by Jury?

Answer 34

VII

Question 35

Deny or disparage?

Answer 35

IX

Question 36

Concept of federalism?

Answer 36

X

Question 37

What was the goal of the American revolution?

Answer 37

To gain independence from Britain

Question 38

What had to split the country the most?

Answer 38

Federalism

Question 39

What is judicial review?

Answer 39

Interpreting the law

Question 40

What was the first state to ratify the Constitution?

Answer 40

Delaware