Democracy/Government
Which government can take over a local government if the local government is failing?
State government
The Preamble
Which section of the constitution explains the reasons that good government should be established?
Social problems in a society.
What does social policy deal with?
True or False: Mr. P knows every Article and their meaning
False
The group of people who create and enforce laws and decisions for a state in the United States.
What is the State government?
35 years old
Age requirement for presidency
True or false: Census taking occurs every 5 years
False (every 10 years!)
7
Number of Articles in the Constitution
What is democracy?
A way of governing which depends on the will of the people.
What is not a formal power of the president
Declare war
those actions of individuals, which the government is not permitted to restrict
In what ways did the Supreme Court add meaning to the Constitution in the case of Gibbons V Ogden?
They added meaning to the commerce clause and interpreted "interstate commerce"
True or false: American government is an example of a direct democracy.
False
What is the purpose of the first 10 amendments
Guarantees specific rights to American citizens
White, adult males who owned property
In the first years under the Constitution, who were the only people allowed to vote in most places?
Which case was overturned by the case of Brown V Board of Education to Topeka
Plessy V Ferguson
To where can the origins of democracy be traced?
Ancient Greece
If a president signs an executive order that a citizen feels has violated his or her constitutional rights what would best describe how that citizen would go about having that executive order removed?
The citizen files suit in a federal district court. If the district court does not rule in the citizen's favor, he or she may appeal to a higher court...If a majority of the justices agree, the executive order is declared unconstitutional and removed.
True or false: Cities have their own branches of government (i.e., Executive, Judicial, Legislative)
True.
Article IV states "full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. What would best illustrate this requirement of each state?
Beth and Tom are married in Virginia. They moved to Connecticut where they must be permitted to file their state income tax return as a married couple, if they choose.