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government test
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are three main ideas of the Magna Carta? | limited government, rule of law and due process |
| what are the two main ideas of the Mayflower Compact? | self government and rule of law |
| what are the two main ideas of the English Bill of Rights? | due process and rule of law |
| what are the three main ideas of Cato's Letters? | rights, rule of law, and freedom of expression |
| what are the two main ideas of Common Sense? | rights, and self government |
| what was one of the weakness in the Articles of Confederation? | the government could not force states to obey laws and tax states |
| What was the stamp act? | It forced colonists to put expensive tax stamps on all legal documents, newspapers, calendars, and almanacs |
| what was the Declaratory Act? | colonies were dependent on the king and declared that all laws passed in the colonies had no effect |
| what was the Townshend Revenue Act? | taxed things that colonists couldn't make themselves |
| what was the Quartering Act? | forced certain colonists to let British troops live in their houses. |
| what were the Intolerable Acts? | a series of laws that cracked down on rebellious activity in Massachusetts colony |
| what is the Declaration of Independence's parts? | preamble, the statement of human rights, charges against human laws, charges against the king and parliament, and the statement of separation and signatures |
| what if federalism? | a system of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government |
| what does the executive branch do? | it carries out laws |
| what does the judicial branch do? | it interprets laws |
| what does the legislative branch do? | it creates laws |
| what are checks and balances? | they make sure one part of the government doesn't get too much power |
| what is the bill of rights? | the first 10 amendments of the constitution |
| what is separation of powers? | the act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies |
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