Module 4/5

Question 1

What is an amendment?

Answer 1

A change in the words or meaning of a law or document (such as a constitution)

Question 2

What does it mean to repeal?

Answer 2

To officially make (a law) no longer valid

Question 3

What is the Bill of Rights?

Answer 3

A summary of fundamental rights and privileges guaranteed to a people against violation by the state, used especially of the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution

Question 4

What does double jeopardy mean?

Answer 4

The act of causing a person to be put on trial two times for the same crime

Question 5

What is the Due Process?

Answer 5

The official and proper way of doing things in a legal case - the rule that a legal case must be done in a way that protects the rights of all the people involved

Question 6

What does the word Libel mean?

Answer 6

The act of publishing a false statement that causes people to have a bad opinion of someone

Question 7

What is naturalization?

Answer 7

To allow (someone who was born in a different country) to become a new citizen

Question 8

What amendment talks about the right to bear arms?

Answer 8

The second amendment

Question 9

What does slander mean

Answer 9

The act of making a false spoken statement that causes people to have a bad opinion of someone

Question 10

What does the first amendment go over?

Answer 10

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.

Question 11

What is a strict construction?

Answer 11

One who believes the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted narrowly and literally

Question 12

What is a Loose constructionist?

Answer 12

One who believes that the Constitution should be interpreted liberally in order to reflect changing times

Question 13

What was Washington’s role in the American revolution?

Answer 13

He lead the continental army.

Question 14

What is Tariff?

Answer 14

Taxes imposed on imported products

Question 15

Who was John Jay?

Answer 15

One of the authors of the Federalist Papers and in 1789 the first Chief Justice of the United States

Question 16

What is Capital?

Answer 16

Wealth – one of the three traditional factors of production, the others being land and labor

Question 17

What is Free market?

Answer 17

The idea that people can decide freely what business they wish to be in and what that business will produce

Question 18

What is Supply?

Answer 18

In economics, the quantity of a commodity that is in the market and available for purchase or that is available for purchase at a particular price

Question 19

What is Demand?

Answer 19

In economics, the desire to purchase, coupled with the power to do so OR the quantity of goods that buyers will take at a particular price

Question 20

What was teh Presidential Succession Act of 1947?

Answer 20

This law placed the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate behind the Vice President. The line of succession then extended to the executive department heads in the order in which their agencies were created.

Question 21

What did the 25th Amendment go over?

Answer 21

The 25th amendment allows for the Vice President to become president in the event of death, resignation, removal from office or impairment that prevents the current president from fulfilling his or her duties.

Question 22

Who was Alexander Hamilton?

Answer 22

Under George Washington, the first Secretary of the Treasury, who put the new nation on sound financial footing. He was also a strong advocate of a national bank and national currency. Also known as one of the major forces in the creation of the American political party system.

Question 23

Who was Thomas Jefferson?

Answer 23

The primary author of the Declaration of Independence, the first Secretary of State under George Washington, the second Vice president under John Adams, and the third President of the United States. Also known as one of the major forces in the creation of the American political party system.

Question 24

Who was Adam Smith?

Answer 24

The Scottish economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations and whose ideas are the basis for capitalism.