Section 1

Question 1

What are natural rights?

Answer 1

life, liberty, and property.

Question 2

What is state of nature?

Answer 2

A theory on how people lived before societies.

Question 3

what is due process?

Answer 3

The administration of justice.

Question 4

What is a chamber?

Answer 4

mutual effort to increase commerce with businesses.

Question 5

What is social contrast?

Answer 5

Consent to be governed by citizens, as long as government protect their natural rights.

Question 6

What is social contract theory?

Answer 6

the idea the society is not natural but created by people.

Question 7

What is direct democracy?

Answer 7

Where people contribute willingly decide and representative to do it for them.

Question 8

What is the Enlightenment?

Answer 8

people’s ideas of natural rights.

Question 9

What is political spectrum?

Answer 9

A way to classify political ideologies.

Question 10

What is the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 10

Birthed the US and started the Revolutionary War, list important natural rights by Thomas Jefferson.

Question 11

What is the Bill of Rights?

Answer 11

the first 10 amendments of the US, ratified in 1791, list citizens’ rights and liberties.

Question 12

What is sovereignty?

Answer 12

Principle government has authority to manage its political affairs.

Question 13

What is a bicameral legislature?

Answer 13

A group in the legislative branch that consist of two separate chambers or two separate elected officials.

Question 14

What is a Legislature?

Answer 14

the official lawmaking body of a government.

Question 15

What is habeas corpus?

Answer 15

means “show me the body” in Latin and prohibits imprisoning people without being seen by judge and right to due process.

Question 16

What is enumerated rights?

Answer 16

Rights given to the federal government by the Constitution to regulate interstate, foreign commerce, raise and support armies, declare war, coin money, and foreign affairs.

Question 17

What is ratification?

Answer 17

approval or confirmation.

Question 18

What are political ideologies?

Answer 18

set of ideas, beliefs, in a recurring pattern.

Question 19

What are the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 19

First attempt in organizing the government in the US and later failed as it formed an alliance of sovereignty states with too weak of a national government.

Question 20

What are delegates?

Answer 20

selected to represent a group of people in political assembly.

Question 21

What is a bicameral legislature?

Answer 21

A legislative branch that consists of two separate chambers.

Question 22

What is popular vote?

Answer 22

Where the winner receives the largest number of individual votes.

Question 23

What was the Virginia Plan?

Answer 23

A plan proposed at the Constitutional Convention, the number of states in each chamber would be based on population.

Question 24

What was the New Jersey Plan?

Answer 24

State would have one vote, that required a one-house national legislature.

Question 25

What was unicameral legislature?

Answer 25

Consists of only one-chamber.

Question 26

What was the lower chamber?

Answer 26

Larger of the two chambers in bicameral, this is the House of Representatives.

Question 27

What was the upper chamber?

Answer 27

the smaller of the two chambers in a bicameral legislature, this is known as Senate.

Question 28

What was the Great Compromise?

Answer 28

Connecticut Compromise, 1787. Equal representation in Senate and population in House of Representatives.

Question 29

What was the three-fifths compromise?

Answer 29

Agreement with North and South that required all of states free population and 60% enslaved population of federal taxation and representation in congress.

Question 30

What was the institution of slavery?

Answer 30

Depriving slaves of liberty, free labor, treating them as property, and inhumane circumstances.

Question 31

What is a Veto?

Answer 31

Power to reject a law passed by Congress, held by the President.

Question 32

What is check and balances?

Answer 32

Limit the use of power by the three branches of government and other two to approve the branches actions.

Question 33

What are separations of power?

Answer 33

Managed by different groups of people and division of three branches of government.

Question 34

What is the federal system?

Answer 34

Power divided between state and federal government.

Question 35

What are reserved powers?

Answer 35

Any power not prohibited by the Constitution, power reserved to the states and denied to federal government in 10th amendment.

Question 36

What is a republic?

Answer 36

Where political power is held by people to elect representatives who makes laws on their behalf.

Question 37

What does levy mean?

Answer 37

to demand payment of taxes.

Question 38

What was the Federalist Papers?

Answer 38

In favor of ratifying the newly written Constitution.

Question 39

What is faction?

Answer 39

Like-minded people competing for the same interest.

Question 40

What does interpretation mean?

Answer 40

to decide on.

Question 41

What is a bureaucracy?

Answer 41

Enforce the laws of national government.

Question 42

What is an impeachment?

Answer 42

Removing government officials of crime and requires a majority vote with the House of Representative and Senate on two-thirds vote.

Question 43

What is an executive order?

Answer 43

Issued by the President in absence of congressional action.

Question 44

what is a bill of attainder?

Answer 44

Act of legislature, declaring a person guilty of a crime without a trial. Constitution prohibits Congress from passing any bill of attainder.