Foundational Concepts
Democracy and Civil
Rights
Rights
Establishing Federalism
Founding of America
Distributions of Power
100
Resolving conflicts over what society’s priorities should be is the essence of
What is politics
100
The United States is a(n)
What is presidential democracy
100
____ of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were women.
What is none
100
The ____ Compromise called for a bicameral legislature with a lower house in which the number of representatives from each state would be determined by the number of people in that state, and an upper house which would have two members from each state.
What is the Connecticut/Great Compromise
100
____ is a system of shared sovereignty between two levels of government—one national and one subnational—occupying the same geographic region.
What is federalism
200
the individuals and institutions that make society’s rules and that also possess the power and authority to enforce those rules.
What is government
200
The _____ authorized the federal government to sue to desegregate public schools and facilities.
Civil Rights Act
200
The ____ Plan that was proposed at the Constitutional Convention favored large states. It called for a legislature in which the number of representatives would be in proportion to each state’s population.
What is Virginia
200
In the _____ case, the Supreme Court held that the "right to privacy . . . is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy," subject to certain regulations.
What is Roe v. Wade (1973)
200
A centralized governmental system in which local or subdivisional governments exercise only those powers given to them by the central government.
What is a unitary system
300
The ability to influence or control the behavior of people
What is power
300
The _____ is a Supreme Court doctrine that allowed racial segregation as long as there were no differences between the facilities provided for blacks and for whites.
What is separate-but-equal doctrine
300
The _____ was adopted on July 4, 1776 and most of the document was written by Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Declaration of Independence
300
The _____ guarantees the right of the people "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
What is the first amendment
300
Powers held by both the federal and the state governments in a federal system.
What are concurrent powers
400
In Britain, the prime minister and the cabinet are members of the legislature that both enacts the laws and carries them out. Hence, Britain is an example of _____.
parliamentary democracy
400
Today, Britain is a(n)
What is parliamentary democracy
400
John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison wrote a series of essays in defense of the Constitution, collectively known as
What are the Federalist Papers
400
The concepts expressed in the Declaration of Independence reflected European political philosophy. In particular, the theories of ____ provided philosophical underpinnings by which the American Revolution could be justified.
Who is John Locke
400
Feminism is best defined as:
a doctrine advocating full political, economic, and social equality for women.
500
_____ is a voluntary agreement among individuals to create a government and to give that government adequate power to secure the mutual protection and welfare of all individuals.
Social contract
500
A republic is essentially a(n)
What is representative democracy
500
The _____, which was written more than two hundred years ago, continues to be the supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution
500
In the context of the rights of criminal defendants, the Fifth Amendment:
includes the constitutional protection against self-incrimination.
500
What are examples of public goods?
What is air, water, national defense, law enforcement