State Constitutions
The oldest written constitutional document still in use in the United States
What is Massachusetts?
Number of Articles in the Virginia Constitution
What is 12?
Location in the Virginia Constitution of the Bill of Rights.
What is Article I?
Personal interests and rewards are the main incentives in this political culture
What is Individualistic?
Local governments are typically tapped to set national defense policy
What is FALSE?
Number of states that currently allow citizens to propose constitutional amendments through the initiative process
What is 18?
Describes the qualifications for voting in Virginia
What is Article II
Number of sections in the Virginia Bill of Rights.
Limited political participation is seen as a privilege in this political culture
What is traditional?
Legislators increasingly consulted with lobbyists in states that adopted term limits.
What is TRUE?
Century in which the states conducted the most constitutional conventions
What is the 19th?
Describes the Amendment process in the Virginia Constitution.
What is Article XII?
The Virginia Bill of Rights differ in their approach to religious freedom from the US Constitution by including explicit reference to this religion
What is Christianity?
Rooted in Puritanism, this culture views government as a positive force designed to advance the public interest, promote the general welfare, and improve society
What is Moralistic?
Reduced state government spending is one of the benefits of term limits.
What is FALSE? Bringing fresh perspectives to lawmaking, increasing electoral competition, and encouraging diverse representation are some of the benefits (though note that research has not shown that the encouragement of diversity is working)
Number of states that include an express right to privacy in their state constitutions?
What is 10?
Lays out Dillon's Rule in Virginia
What is Article VII
This fundamental right is addressed differently in terms of scope and detail between the Virginia and U.S. Constitution regarding property rights
What is eminent domain?
When state officials like the attorney general are elected independently of the governor
What are plural executive states?
The mayor-council system is a form of county government.
What is FALSE? (while local. . . . it is a type of Municipal/City government)
Most common reason given for the decline in state constitutional conventions in the 20th and subsequent century.
What is concern about opening "pandora's box"?
Contains the right to hunt, fish and harvest game
What is Article XI?
The Virginia and U.S. Bill of Rights differ in their approach to criminal prosecutions in this way (two possibilities)
What is the Virginia Bill of Rights provides for non-jury trials in some instances.
What is the Virginia Bill of Rights expressly requires unanimity in jury determinations.
Collection of these types of taxes occurs in large lump sums rather than small increments which can be challenging for local government budgets.
What are property taxes?
Federal spending began to consistently exceed state spending starting in the 1940s
What is TRUE?