Chapters 1 + 2

Question 1

A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War

Answer 1

Articles of Confederation

Question 2

A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution

Answer 2

Constitutional Convention

Question 3

Proposal to create a strong national government

Answer 3

Virginia Plan

Question 4

Proposal to create a weak national government

Answer 4

New Jersey Plan

Question 5

Plan to have a popularly elected House based on state population and a state-selected Senate, with two members for each state

Answer 5

Great Compromise

Question 6

A government in which elected representatives make the decisions

Answer 6

Republic

Question 7

The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional

Answer 7

Judicial Review

Question 8

Government authority shared by national and local governments

Answer 8

Federalism

Question 9

Powers given to the national government alone

Answer 9

Enumerated Powers

Question 10

Powers given to the state government alone

Answer 10

Reserved Powers

Question 11

Powers shared by the national and state governments

Answer 11

Concurrent Powers

Question 12

Authority shared by three branches of government

Answer 12

Checks and Balances

Question 13

Constitutional authority is shared by three different branches of government

Answer 13

Separation of Powers

Question 14

A group with distinct political interest

Answer 14

Faction

Question 15

Those who favor a stronger national government

Answer 15

Federalists

Question 16

Those who favor a weaker national government

Answer 16

Antifederalists

Question 17

A human right based on nature or God

Answer 17

Unalienable

Question 18

An alliance of groups

Answer 18

Coalition

Question 19

First ten amendments to the Constitution

Answer 19

Bill of Rights

Question 20

An order to produce an arrested person before a judge

Answer 20

Habeas Corpus

Question 21

A law that declares a person, without a trial, to be guilty of a crime

Answer 21

Bill of Attainder

Question 22

A law that makes an act criminal although the act was legal when it was committed

Answer 22

Ex Post Facto Law

Question 23

A new provision in the Constitution that has been ratified by the states

Answer 23

Amendments

Question 24

An executive’s ability to block a particular provision in a bill passed by the legislature

Answer 24

Line-item Veto

Question 25

A conflict, real or apparent, between the interests, ideas, or beliefs of different citizens

Answer 25

Issue

Question 26

The activity by which an issue is agitated or settled

Answer 26

Politics

Question 27

The ability of one person to get another person to get in accordance with the first person's intentions

Answer 27

Power

Question 28

The right to use power

Answer 28

Authority

Question 29

Political authority conferred by law or by a state or national constitution

Answer 29

Legitimacy

Question 30

The rule of the many

Answer 30

Democracy

Question 31

A government in which all or most citizens participate directly

Answer 31

Direct or Participatory Democracy

Question 32

A government in which leaders make decisions by winning a competitive struggle for the popular vote

Answer 32

Representative Democracy

Question 33

View that the government is dominated by appointed officials

Answer 33

Bureaucratic View

Question 34

View that the government is dominated by capitalists

Answer 34

Class View

Question 35

The rule of many

Answer 35

Democracy

Question 36

Person who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource, like money or power.

Answer 36

Elite

Question 37

The belief that competition among all affected interests shapes public policy

Answer 37

Pluralist View

Question 38

View that the government is dominated by a few top leaders, most of whom are outside government

Answer 38

Power Elite View

Question 39

A new provision in the Constitution that has been ratified by the states

Answer 39

Amendment

Question 40

A 1787 rebellion in which ex-Revolutionary War soldiers attempted to prevent foreclosures of farms as a result of high interest rates and taxes

Answer 40

Shay's Rebellion