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What is the process by which a society decides how government is run and how the leaders are chosen?
What is politics
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Which important document was signed by King John in the 1200s granting certain rights to the English people and limiting the king's power?
What is Magna Carta
100
What information is provided in the first three articles of the Constitution?
an outline of the three branches of the federal government
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Why did the Framers divide government powers between the national governments and the states?
Dividing government power would prevent an abuse of power
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What is one of the basic ideas of democracy
All people are equal under the law
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Who holds the governmental power in a dictatorship?
One person or a small group of people
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In 1765, which group of American colonists protested "taxation without representation" by sending a protest to the British King?
What is Stamp Act Congress
200
Describe the government system of federalism?
Power is divided between the federal government and the states
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Which government powers are not written in the Constitution but exist because the United States is a sovereign state?
What is implied or inherent powers
200
Describe the Connecticut Compromise, or Great Compromise, that took place at the Constitutional Convention?
Two-part legislature, members of one part of the legislature would be chosen by the population; the other part would have two representatives from each state.
300
What is the main political unit in the world?
What is the state
300
Which group suggested that all American trade with Britain be stopped as a way of protesting the Intolerable Acts?
What is the First Continental Congress
300
Which part of the amendment process reflects the principles of popular sovereignty?
when state legislatures or ratifying conventions vote on the amendment
300
Which part of the Constitution allows the Supreme Court to declare a state law unconstitutional when it conflicts with the powers of the national government?
What is Supremacy Clause
300
What compromise was made at the Constitutional Convention so that Congress could get the power to control foreign trade?
Congress could not tax exports
400
In which government system does the central government lack the power to make laws?
What is confederate government
400
The meeting o delegates in Philadelphia in 1781, which later became known as the Constitutional Convention, was for the purpose of revising which document?
What is the Article of Confederation
400
What do we call powers that are shared with both federal and state governments?
What is concurrent powers
400
What argument did Anti-Federalists such as Patrick Henry make against the new Constitution?
The national government would be too powerful
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Describe the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of a presidential government
The branches are separate but equal
500
What was one of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
Congress could not raise money from the states
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What was the goal of your law firm in the game Do I Have The Right?
To protect the rights of citizens using amendments to the U.S. Constitution
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What clause in the Constitution give Congress its implied powers
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause
500
What was missing from the Constitution that almost kept it from being approved?
Bill of Rights Individual Rights