Chapter #1
This is the right to use power.
What is authority?
The first 10 amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Government authority shared by national and local governments.
What is federalism?
This state's name is misspelled in the US Constitution.
What is Pennsylvania?
This form of democracy allows citizens to vote and run for office. (Aristotle's view)
What is participatory/direct democracy?
There are this many amendments to the United States Constitution.
What is 27?
This action allows states to invalidate certain laws made by the federal government.
What is nullification?
There are exactly this many words in the US Constitution.
What is 4,400?
The activity by which an issue is agitated or settled.
What are politics?
This Amendment gives women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
A form of federalism in which both the National and State governments reign supreme in their own spheres.
What is dual federalism?
This major founding father did not sign the Constitution, because he was in France during the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This is the type of politics in which a small group benefits at the cost of the majority.
What is client politics?
This Rebellion in Massachusetts proved the urgent need for a strong national government
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Federal grants for specific purposes, such as building an airport.
What are categorical grants?
This founding father, at the age of 83, cried as he signed the Constitution.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This scholar supported the bureaucratic view of politics, believing that the government is dominated by appointed officials.
Who is Max Weber?
The separation of powers is included in these articles of the US Constitution.
What is articles 1 and 2?
These 3 procedures allow citizens access to direct democracy such as adding legislation to the ballot, removing elected officials from office, and removing legislation from the ballot.
What are initiative, referendum, and recall?
Jacob Shallus, a Pennsylvania General Assembly Clerk and the person who 'penned' the Constitution, was paid this many dollars for his duty.
What is $30 ($830 in today's world)?