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100

What document is this? "The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them or any of them on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever."

Articles of Confederation

100

The right to bear arms

2nd Amendment 

100

 Whether police should inform suspects of their rights. He was tried twice for the same crime. 5th amendment

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

100

Which Article of the Constitution refers to the Judicial Branch?

Article 3

100

What economy is this? Country A's government allows farmers to set prices for their produce and to decide how much to pay for labor without regulation or control

Laissez-faire economy

200

What document is this? "When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them..."

Declaration of Independence 

200

Due process and protection of self-incrimination and double jeopardy (miranda rights)

5th amendment

200

Lynda ** was denied admission to an all white school because she was African american

Brown v Board of Education of Topeka

200

What outcome is most likely in an appellate court?

Decisions are mainly denied

200

In Country B, the government sets the prices for all produce that is sold in the country's shops and stores.

Command economy

300

What document is this? "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this (document)."

Constitution of the United States

300

Freedom of assembly, press, religion and speech

1st amendment

300

** sat on the back of a train as a half African american and got himself arrested pleading that it violated his 14th amendment

Plessy v. Ferguson

300

What is a veto?

President Rejects Bill (Congress can override with SUPERMAJORITY - ⅔ IN BOTH CHAMBERS)

300

Prices for produce in Country C are based on supply and demand. Privately owned companies sell produce at a high price when the demand for them is high. When demand is low, the prices fall in response.

Market economy

400

Which came fourth: Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Articles of Confederation, or Mayflower Compact

U.S. Constitution

400

Government cannot force soldiers to stay in people's homes during peacetime

3rd amendment

400

Weather a judge or a jury should decide the death penalty

Ring v. Arizona (2002)

400

What is an executive order?

  1. Similar to treaties with foreign countries without Senate approval

  2. Normally need ⅔ Senate approval for treaties

400

In Country D, the government sets some business regulations, such as minimum wage for workers. This country has both private and public companies that control growing and selling produce.





Mixed economy

500
  • Established in 1620 by the Pilgrims who were aboard the Mayflower headed to Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts

  • Blueprint for democratic government and American Government

  • They established popular sovereignty and agreed to be a unified community who abides to the laws  

Mayflower compact

500

Fair trial, access to lawyer, right to know accusation and accuser

6th amendment

500

It mandated prayer in school which went against the 1st amendment

Engel v. Vitale (1962)

500

What position are these qualifications for?

  • 35 years old

  • Natural Born Citizen 

  • Resident of the U.S. for at least 14 years 

Presidency 

500

Which type of economic system is President Reagan describing below?

"We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems. That way, instead of the unemployed, we'd see a resource of potential workers waiting to add their labors, their ingenuity (cleverness), their creativity to an expanding marketplace. And instead of ghettos, we'd see potential enterprise zones, where increases incentives to work and invest could produce a renaissance (revival) of business activity and community involvement." - President Ronald Reagan, 1985

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