Unit 1 Test Question

Question 1

What is the “social contract”?

Answer 1

In Hobbe’s view, people agreed to give up some rights and power in exchange for protection. Once people agreed to hand over power in exchange for protection, they lost right to overthrow,
replace, or even question the gov’n.

Question 2

What does “tabula rasa” mean?

Answer 2

A blank slate or page

Question 3

According to John Locke people have the rights to what?

Answer 3

Natural rights, rights to Life, Liberty, and Property

Question 4

What are the similarites between John Locke and Thomas Hobbes?

Answer 4

No Government = State of Nature

Idea of a Social Contract

Question 5

What is democracy?

Answer 5

Supreme political authority rests with the people, people have sovereign power, and government is conducted only by and with the consent of people.

Question 6

What is a major difference in the government between the UK and the US?

Answer 6

Uk- Constitutional Monarchy, Current Government - Parliament

US- Constitution- based federal republic, Democracy

Question 7

What is the “state of nature” according to Hobbes?

Answer 7

Everyone had a right to everything. In order to what you wanted, people would always be at war with everyone else. Nobody produced inventions, art, or even crops or tools

Question 8

What is a major difference between a unitary and federal Government?

Answer 8

Unitary- all power belongs to one central agency

Federal - power is divided between one central & several local governments

Question 9

Which theory best explains dictatorship?

Answer 9

Force theory - one person or small group claim an area and force all within to submit to their rules

Question 10

What are the four characteristics of a state?

Answer 10

Population, territory, sovereignty, government

Question 11

What does the word “ Bicameral” mean?

Answer 11

Having 2 house legislatures

Question 12

What were the weaknesses of the articles of Confederation?

Answer 12

Congress did not have the power to tax
Congress had no power to regulate trade between the States
Congress had lack of power to make State only the Articles of Confederation or the laws it made

Question 13

What is the introduction to the Constitution called?

Answer 13

Bill of Rights

Question 14

Which is the method by which an amendment to the constitution can be ratified?

Answer 14

Formal Amendment- Ratified by 3/4 of the State Legislatures

Ratified by conventions in 3/4 of the States

Question 15

In what way is the formal amendment process is an example of federalism?

Answer 15

Proposal takes place at the national level and ratification is a State-by-State matter.

Question 16

Why did the Framers leave out some sections of the Constitution without a detail?

Answer 16

They knew that even the wiser of constitution makers could not build for all time

Question 17

What is a pact made by the President directly with the head of a foreign state called?

Answer 17

Executive agreement

Question 18

Which has been a major agent of change even though not mentioned in the Constitution?

Answer 18

Implied powers

Question 19

Why did the Framers choose a Federalist system?

Answer 19

Governmental power inevitably poses a threat to individual liberty, exercise of governmental power must be restrained, and dividing governmental power will prevent it’s abuse

Question 20

The power to coin money is an example of what?

Answer 20

Expresses powers

Question 21

To be able to collect federal and state income tax is an example of what?

Answer 21

Concurrent powers

Question 22

Monetary obligations of the national government towards the state governments are called what?

Answer 22

Reserved powers

Question 23

Before it can become a state, a territory applying for statehood must do what?

Answer 23

Act of admission

Question 24

Assistance for a state’s disaster relief is an example of which grant?

Answer 24

Categorical grants

Question 25

Managing shared resources and concerns between states is called what?

Answer 25

Interstate compacts

Question 26

What is full faith and credit clause?

Answer 26

Recognize and respect the validity ( in court cases, the judgement made by the courts in different states)

Question 27

A teacher is searching license In Cali. Is an example of what power?

Answer 27

Reserved powers

Question 28

Hawaii becoming a state is an example of what power?

Answer 28

Expressed power

Question 29

A military draft during Vietnam war is an example of what?

Answer 29

Implied power

Question 30

Charter

Answer 30

A written grant or authority from the kind

Question 31

Due process

Answer 31

Protection against the arbitrary taking of life, liberty, and property

Question 32

Commerce and Slave trade compromise

Answer 32

Prevented Congress from restricting slave trade for 20 years

Question 33

Connecticut Compromise

Answer 33

An agreement that Congress should be composed of a Senate, with states represented equally, and a house, with representation based on the state population

Question 34

New Jersey plan

Answer 34

Called for a unicameral legislature in which each state would be equally represented

Question 35

Three- fifths compromise

Answer 35

an agreement about how to count slaves when determining the population of a a state