Unit 1
The process of becoming a citizen of the United States is known as this.
What is Naturalization?
What is their weakness?
According to the Supremacy clause, this document is the supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
This branch of government is able to exercise the power of judicial review to check other branches of government.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Alex puts a bumper sticker on her bike that says 'I hate the President!' She is stopped by the police and given a ticket for criticizing the government. The amendment that protects Alex in this situation is...
What is the first amendment?
Paying taxes, jury duty, registering for the draft, obeying the law.
According to Thomas Hobbes, the state of nature was ______.
What is nasty/brutish/short/cruel?
The biggest change between the AoC and the Constitution is ________.
What is a stronger central government?
What is population?
This Constitutional Clause allows the federal government to stretch its powers to fit new situations.
What is the necessary and proper clause/elastic clause?
The 14th Amendment expanded due process and all the rights of citizenship to people who were formerly enslaved. This is significant because is ___________.
What is expanded democracy?
Under this policy, the British government mostly ignored the colonies which let the colonists get away with things like smuggling and live by their own rules.
What is salutary neglect?
These are the 3 types of government powers under Federalism.
What are expressed, concurrent, and reserved?
This system within our government ensures that the government can control itself and will not become too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
This is when people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures are able to live together peacefully and productively.
What is multiculturalism?
Enlightenment ideas, especially the ideas of John Locke, had a significant impact on this famous break up letter.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Preamble of the US Constitution lists 6 goals. Two of them are ________.
Form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, promote the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity
This is the process of intentionally drawing weirdly shaped legislative districts in order to manipulate the outcome of elections in that area.
What is gerrymandering?
The 15th, 19th, and 26th amendments expanded democracy by allowing more people to do this.
What is vote?
This type of government involves a very small group of people, usually military or industry leaders, making all of the decisions.
What is an oligarchy?
Sharing power between the local, state, and federal government is known as this.
What is Federalism?
This early political party wanted to add the Bill of Rights to the Constitution.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
These are the first 3 people in line for the presidency according to the presidential line of succession.
Who are the Vice President, Speaker of the House, President Pro Tempore
These are two requirements to become a naturalized citizen of the United States.
What are pass the citizenship test, be 18, speak some English, have a valid green card, live in the USA for at least 5 years