Foundation of Politics
Basic Principles of Government
Feds v Anti-Feds
27 Amendments
3 Branches of Government/Ohio Constitution
100

What is persuasion?

The act of convincing someone that your idea/proposal is better than theirs

100

List all 5 basic principles of government.

Popular Sovereignty, Limited Government, Federalism, Separation of Powers, Checks & Balances.

100

What was the name of the document that described our first form of government?

Articles of Confederation

100

What is the name of the first 10 Amendments, AND what are their purpose?

The Bill of Rights - to protect individual freedoms.

100

Identify the 3 branches of government and the Articles they are established in.

Article I - Legislative

Article II - Executive

Article III - Judicial

200

What is it called when both sides have given up something that they specifically want, so both sides can get something out of it?

Compromise

200

Which constitutional principle is identified with the concept of the "consent of the governed"?

Popular Sovereignty

200

1. Which party fought for individual liberties and feared the idea of a strong, tyrannical, national government?

2. Which party fought for stability through a strong central authority with having a military and the right to tax people?

1. Anti-federalists

2. Federalists

200

There are 5 Suffrage Amendments in the Constitution. Choose 2 of them and correctly define them.

15th - Gave African American men the right to vote

19th - Gave women the right to vote

23rd - Gave people in Washington DC the right to vote

24th - No one had to pay a poll tax in order to vote

26th - Moved the voting age to 18

200

Since states are sovereign from the federal government, state governments can pass laws that can overpower federal laws in certain situations. True or false?

False - All federal laws hold more weight and state laws cannot go against them.

300

Source #1 - Results from a public poll from citizens on the topic of a public issue.

Source #2 - Information collected and held by the government that citizens can see.

Correctly identify both sources.

Source #1 - Surveys

Source #2 - Public Records

300

Explain how the Supremacy Clause reinforces the principle of Limited Government.

Limited Government states that the government is limited to only what their powers are, which are stated in the Constitution.

The Supremacy Clause states that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and everyone must follow it, including the government.

300

List 3 weaknesses the Articles of Confederation had that lead to the Constitutional Convention.

No power to tax, no power to raise an army, no executive branch, no judicial branch.

300

How did the 12th Amendment fix problems taking place in the Electoral College?

They created separate ballots for the President and Vice President so there could not be a tie.

300

Name the highest figures in each branch of government at the federal level.

Legislative - Congress

Executive - The President

Judicial - Supreme Court

400

Voting, putting a sign in your yard showing your support of a school board member, posting your political opinion on Facebook, wearing a Henry 2024 tee shirt, etc., are all examples of participating in the _______

Political Process

400

Which BPOG is used to specify which powers the federal government has and is allowed to execute, while also specifying which powers state governments have and are allowed to execute?

Federalism

400

In order to compromise with the Anti-Federalists, the Federalists promised to include a ______ to make sure the government did not overpower the people.

Bill of Rights

400

List the numbers of the Reconstruction Amendments AND list any 3 Jim Crow laws that resulted from those amendments.

13th, 14th, 15th

Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, Separate but Equal Doctrine, sharecropping, black codes

400

Give me 2 examples of 1 branch checking another branch, but both examples cannot be the same branch checking the same branch.

President can grant pardons (Executive against Judicial)

Supreme court can declare laws made by Congress unconstitutional (Judicial against Legislative)

Congress can impeach the President (Legislative against Executive)

500

Correctly define consensus building.

The act of showing respect towards someone else's interests and making an effort to meet the needs of all parties involved.

500

Differentiate between Separation of Powers and Checks & Balances.

Sep. of Powers - Splits the powers between the 3 branches and specifies which powers belong to which branch.

Checks & Balances - Even though each branch has their own powers that they can only exercise, other branches can limit a branch from executing those specific powers if they abuse them.

500

Why would the Federalists believe that a Bill of Rights was not needed?

The new Constitution was never intending on taking individual liberties away in the first place.

500

Explain the purpose of the 9th and 10th Amendments.

Not every right that a person has, and state governments have, are listed in the Constitution. Anything failed to be listed are reserved for the people under the 9th and for state governments  under the 10th Amendment.

500

List 2 changes that were made in the Ohio Constitution of 1851.

1. Debt limitations

2. Governor and all federal judges will be elected by the people

3. District courts were created

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