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Civics Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The characteristics of the state are: | Population, government, sovereignty, and territory |
| Lock, Hobbes, Rousseau would likely agree that a state: | Exists to serve the people |
| A state with supreme and absolute power within: | It's own territory is sovereign |
| Hammurabi reordered the first systematic code of law: | Used to govern a society |
| A government that is not responsible to the people and: | Cannot be limited by them is dictatorial |
| A mixed economy best characterizes the: | American economic system |
| Competition is the element that controls and maintains: | A capitalistic economic system |
| Communism is the theory that claims that the value of any commodity is determined: | By the amount of labor needed to produce it |
| Parliamentary government is used by countries: | Such as Great Brittan and France |
| Confederation describes: | An alliance of independent states |
| Nationalization is the governmental acsquition: | Of private industry for public use |
| Insistence upon equality of opportunity: | Is a basic feature of the American concept of democracy |
| In a presidential form of government the law making and the law executing functions: | Are lodged in separate branches of the government |
| In the charter colonies much of the power over colonial affairs: | Was held by the colonists |
| Before the mid 1700's the American Colonies enjoyed: | A large measure of self-government |
| The Albany plan of union, the Stamp Act, Congress, and the New England Confederation: | Were early attempt at colonial union |
| The Declaration of Independence contains the following ideas: | 1. People have certain natural rights 2. Governments that do not safeguard their citizens can be overthrown 3. Governments can exist only with the consent of the governed |
| The following are weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation: | 1. Congress was not given the power to tax 2. There was no central mechanism to regulate interstate trade 3. Congress had no power to make the States obey the Articles |
| Because James Madison contributed most of the writing to the Constitution: | He is called the "Father of the Constitution" |
| George Washington was the first president of the United States: | |
| He was elected unanimously by the Philadelphia convention | |
| The major point of difference between the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan was: | The basis for state representation in Congress |
| Delegates to the Philadelphia convention agreed that they should draft a: | New constitution to replace the articles of confederation |
| According to the Connecticut Compromise, Congress was to be composed of two houses: | With equal representation in one and proportional representation in the other |
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