test #3

Question 1

what did the framers hope to accomplish with the new constitution?

Answer 1

they sought to create a balance between the national government and state governments, the three branches of the national government, and a stronger national government & liberties of the people

Question 2

(according to the founders) what was the best way to protect the unalienable rights promised by the declaration of independence?

Answer 2

a constitution founded on the separation of powers

Question 3

Separation of Powers

Answer 3

the constitution distributes power among three branches of government

Question 4

checks and balances

Answer 4

established by the constitution; grants each branch the power to check abuses of power by the other branches

Question 5

what does federalism describe

Answer 5

describes the constitution’s system of granting political power by dividing political power between the national government and the states

Question 6

“The Spirit of Laws”

Answer 6

written by Montesquieu; articulated the importance of the separation of powers

Question 7

(according to Montesquieu) what happens when the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person/body of magistrates?

Answer 7

there can be no liberty

Question 8

definition of republic (according to John Adams’s “Thoughts on Government”)

Answer 8

“an empire of laws and not of men”

Question 9

what did James Madison accomplish in Federalist no. 51?

Answer 9

outlined his explanation and defense of the Constitution’s separation of powers

Question 10

in a good government, “ambition must be made to __________ ________”

Answer 10

counteract ambition

Question 11

What article states the primary job of the legislative branch (to make laws)?

Answer 11

Article I

Question 12

What article states the primary job of the executive branch (to enforce laws)?

Answer 12

Article II

Question 13

What article states the primary job of the judicial branch (to interpret laws)?

Answer 13

Article III

Question 14

What is the Federalist papers?

Answer 14

a series of essays that defended the Constitution and the notion of separation of powers.

Question 15

Who said, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary” ?

Answer 15

James Madison

Question 16

Examples of checks and balances

Answer 16

vetoing a law, rejecting a judicial nominee, impeachment

Question 17

Head of Louisiana Executive Branch

Answer 17

Governor

Question 18

Head of Louisiana Legislative Branch

Answer 18

State Legislature

Question 19

Head of Louisiana Judicial Branch

Answer 19

State Supreme Court

Question 20

2 Indian Tribes of Louisiana:

Answer 20

Choctaw and Lafourche

Question 21

define federalism

Answer 21

A system of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central, or national government and several regional governments like states.

Question 22

Supremacy Clause

Answer 22

“The Constitution, and the Laws of the United States… shall be the supreme law of the land”

Question 23

10th amendment

Answer 23

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”