Test Strategies
This test strategy tells you to cross out answers you know are not correct in a multiple choice question.
What is process of elimination?
This amendment protects your right to not incriminate yourself.
What is the 5th amendment?
He believed the State of Nature was terrible because human nature was unkind.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This principle is demonstrated by people voting or attending a city council meeting.
What is popular sovereignty?
This type of power allows Congress to declare war.
What is expressed (or enumerated) power?
The place you should start with any stimulus you are asked to evaluate - map, chart, political cartoon, reading passage, etc.
What is the title / caption?
This amendment allows the people to elect their senators, rather than the state legislators.
What is the 17th?
He believed people were good and born with natural rights - life, liberty and property.
Who is John Locke?
This principle is demonstrated when a Supreme Court justice is ticketed for speeding.
What is Rule of Law?
The type of power that allows the federal, state, and local governments to all levy taxes.
What is concurrent power?
You should mark this many answers in a multi-select question that has 5 choices.
What are 2?
These are the 5 freedoms the 1st amendment protects.
What are:
P - press
R - religion (whichever one or none)
A - assembly
P- petition
S - speech ?
He thought the government's power should be spread out and that the government should be set up to check itself.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This principle is demonstrated by having a representative government that puts the people first.
What is republicanism?
This power allows the federal government to do things not explicitly described in the Constitution to carry out their other powers - like establish a federal bank.
What is an implied power?
In a multi-select ("mark all that apply") question, the maximum you should typically mark.
What are 3?
This amendment includes the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses.
What is the 14th?
He supported freedoms such as speech, religion, and the press.
Who is Voltaire?
This principle is demonstrated by a Constitution that does not allow the federal government to have complete power.
What is limited government?
This type of power allows states to administer and oversee elections - even federal ones.
What is a reserved power?
What are claim/argument/your answer and evidence/sources?
These 4 amendments provide equality. (Name 2.)
What are the 14th, 15th, 19th, and 26th?
He believed people were born free and equal.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
This principle is the separation of government between the federal government and state/local governments.
What is federalism?
This power describes the federal government acquiring new territory.
What is inherent power?