Government - Exam 1 - Part 1 - Chapter 3
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| show | the British monarchs
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| What was an important outcome of Shay's Rebellion? | show 🗑
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| show | the nature of representation
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| What power is exercised by the Supreme Court when it declares a federal law or presidential action as unconstitutional? | show 🗑
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| show | President
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| show | Republicanism
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| show | import tariffs
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| Who was given the power to declare war under the Constitution? | show 🗑
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| How many amendments have been made to the Constitution? | show 🗑
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| What topic was the most debated at the Philadelphia convention? | show 🗑
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| What is independent authority given to both states and the national government? | show 🗑
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| ________ is a government of laws, not people, operating on the principle that governmental power must be limited and government officials should be restrained in their exercise of power over individuals. | show 🗑
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| ______ is the legal structure of a political system, establishing governmental bodies, granting their powers, determining how their members are selected and prescribing rules by which they make their decisions. | show 🗑
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| show | Mayflower Compact
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| ______ are documents granted by the English Monarch to individuals, companies, and groups of settlers in the new American colonies. | show 🗑
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| ______ was the original framework for the government of the United States, adopted in 1781 and superseded by the U.S. Constitution in 1789 | show 🗑
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| show | natural law
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| show | inalienable rights
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| show | Aristotle
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| ______ said that natural law is part of the law of God, knowable by human beings by their power of reason. | show 🗑
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| show | Hugo Grotius
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| show | 435
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| How many electors in the electoral college are there? | show 🗑
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| Absolute rule claiming the right to govern came directly from God. | show 🗑
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| show | Martin Luther, Henry VIII, Pope Leo X
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| show | John Locke
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| ______ proposed separation of judiciary in addition to executive and legislative | show 🗑
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| show | Edmund Burke
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| ______ wrote “Leviathan” (1651), and believed that a government’s power must be absolute. | show 🗑
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| show | John Locke
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| ______ states that people are [politically] free and equal by the God-given right to consent to the government which has authority over them. | show 🗑
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| show | social contract
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| Puritans were also known as ______. | show 🗑
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| show | Lawes Divine, Moral and Martiall, Dale's Code
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| show | William Penn, Lord Baltimore
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| show | Connecticut and Rhode Island
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| ______ was an age of the development of commercial industry and favorable balance of trade. | show 🗑
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| The phrase "no taxation without representation" was a response to the ________. | show 🗑
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| The Boston Tea Party was a response to the ______. | show 🗑
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| The ______, also known as the Intolerable Acts, were a total blockade of Boston and the housing British troops. | show 🗑
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| The General Assembly of Virginia consisted of Governor Sir ______, his __ concillors (the upper house), and ___ elected burgesses (the lower house) | show 🗑
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| The ______ consisted of Governor Sir George Yeardly, his 6 concillors (the upper house), and 22 elected burgesses (the lower house). | show 🗑
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| ______ wrote Common Sense. | show 🗑
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| The Declaration of Independence was authored by ______. | show 🗑
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| The idea the government originates from an implied contract among people who agree to obey laws in exchange for the protection of their natural rights | show 🗑
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| show | Republicanism
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| show | Nationalism
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| The resulting nation-state should be independent and legally equal to all other nation-states | show 🗑
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| A government in which power is concentrated in the legislature, which chooses from among its members a prime minister and cabinet | show 🗑
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| show | Connecticut Compromise
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| show | Three-Fifths Compromise
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| show | Taxes
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| Tax imposed on imported products (also called a customs duty) | show 🗑
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| Unified trade area in which all goods and services can be sold or exchanged free from customs or tariffs | show 🗑
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| The clause in Article VI of the US Constitution declaring the Constitution and federal laws “the supreme Law of the Land” superior to state laws and constitutions and requiring state judges to be bound thereby. | show 🗑
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| proposed laws or constitutional amendments submitted to the voters for their direct approval or rejection, found in state constitutions, but not in the US Constitution | show 🗑
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| Constitutional division of powers among the three branches of the national government – legislative, executive and judicial | show 🗑
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| Constitutional provisions giving each branch of the national government certain checks over the actions of other branches | show 🗑
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| show | Judicial review
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| show | Ratification
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| ______ or ______ must have the power to ratify constitutional amendments submitted by Congress. | show 🗑
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| show | treaties
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| The ______ has the power to ratify treaties made by the president | show 🗑
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| show | Anti-Federalists
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| show | Bill of Rights
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| Powers specifically mentioned in the Constitution belonging to the national government | show 🗑
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| show | Amendments
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| show | Equal Rights Amendment
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| The ______ was passed by Congress in 1972, the amendment failed to win ratification by three of the necessary three-fourths of the states. | show 🗑
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| What is the article, section, clause of the Elastic or Necessary and Proper Clause? | show 🗑
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| show | Article 1, Section 10
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| show | Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1-3
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| What article, section, clause is the Supremacy Clause? | show 🗑
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| The first 10 amendments were written by ______. | show 🗑
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| show | District of Columbia v. Heller, Chicago v. McDonald
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| What amendment protects citizens from quartering troops? | show 🗑
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| What amendment protects against unreasonable searches? | show 🗑
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| What amendment provides for a grand jury; protects against double jeopardy; due process of law; compensation for confiscation of private property for public use? | show 🗑
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| show | 6th amendment
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| show | 7th amendment
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| show | 8th amendment
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| show | 9th amendment
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| What amendment? reserves to the states or the people those powers neither granted to the federal government nor prohibited to the states in the Constitution | show 🗑
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| The term ______ began in the administration of Richard Nixon (1969-1974) and the program of general revenue sharing continued into the Ronald Reagan administration. | show 🗑
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