Political Party that was in favor of ratifying the Constitution?
What is the Federalists.
100
What are the four theories on the origins of the state?
What is force, evolution, divine right, social contact theories.
100
The individual 50 States in the United States of America lack which basic characteristics of a state?
What is sovereignty.
100
What are the two forms of democracy and what are both names for them?
What is direct democracy - pure democracy, indirect democracy - representative democracy.
100
Political Party that was against ratifying the Constitution?
What is the Anti-Federalists.
200
popular sovereignty asserts that
What is the people are the source of any and all government power, and government can exist only with the consent of the governed.
200
Article V sets out how many methods of formally amending the Constitution?
What is two methods for the proposal and two methods for the ratification of constitutional amendments, creating four possible methods of formal amendment.
200
Checks and balances is the system that
What is allows the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to check, or restrain, the actions of one another.
200
Severed as the nation's first government for five years.
What is the Second Continental Congress.
200
The principle of limited government states that
What is government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has rights that government cannot take away.
300
Is voting a duty or responsibility of citizenship?
What is responsibility.
300
Article VII of the Constitution deals with?
What is Ratifying the Constitution.
300
Why had Congress called for a Convention in Philadelphia (The Second Continental Congress)?
What is "for the sole purpose" of recommending revisions to the Articles of Confederation.
300
Separation of powers is the principle
What is in which the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government are three independent and coequal branches of government.
300
What are the four characteristics of a state?
What is population, territory, sovereignty, and government.
400
Article 5 of the Constitution deals with ?
What is Amending the Constitution.
400
Federalism is a system of government in which
What is the powers of government are divided between a central government and several local governments.
400
The Constitution is organized into eight sections: Which are ?
What is the Preamble and seven articles.
400
The principle of judicial review consists of
the power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a governmental action.
400
What are the first three Articles of the Constitution in order?
What is Article I - Legislative Branch, Article II - Executive Branch, Article III - Judicial Branches
500
Article IV of the Constitution outlines?
What is Relations between the State and National Government.
500
In detail explain the different proposal and ratification processes for formal constitutional amendments.
What is proposed by congress and passed with a 2/3 vote, proposed by national conventions with a 2/3 vote - ratified by state legislatures with a 3/4 vote, ratified by state conventions with a 3/4 vote.
500
Informal amendment is the process by which ?
What is over time many changes have been made in the Constitution which have not involved any changes in its written word.
500
The informal amendment process can take place by:
(1) The passage of basic legislation by Congress.
(2) Actions taken by the President.
(3) Key decisions of the Supreme Court.
(4) The activities of political parties.
(5) Custom.
(You need 4/5 to receive full credit for this question)
500
Article VI of the Constitution outlines ________?
What is National Debts, supremacy of natural law, and oaths of office. (You must get all three to recieve credit for this question)