Systems & Structures of Government
Name the four major economic systems studied in class.
Traditional, Market, Command, and Mixed economies?
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The branch of government that interprets the law.
What is the judicial branch?
The case that gave the courts the power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The group that casts the official votes for the president.
What is the Electoral College?
The economic system where individuals and businesses make economic decisions with limited government interference.
What is a market economy?
The amendment that guarantees equal protection under the law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This person serves as Commander in Chief of the armed forces.
Who is the President?
The amendment that protects citizens from being tried twice for the same crime.
What is the 5th Amendment?
Explain how the 5th and 14th Amendments both protect due process.
What is: The 5th protects due process from the federal government; the 14th extends it to state governments?
The term for redrawing voting district lines to benefit one political party.
What is gerrymandering?
Compare and contrast separation of powers and checks and balances.
What is: Separation divides the roles among branches; checks and balances let them limit each other’s power?
The branch that holds the power to impeach.
What is the legislative branch?
How does the First Amendment protect a free press in the United States?
What is: it extends the protection of speech to the written word?
What are two ways a person can become a U.S. citizen?
What is: By birth (natural-born) or through the naturalization process?
Compare and contrast a unitary system and a federal system of government.
A unitary system centralizes power; a federal system divides power between national and state governments?
The phrase “secure the blessings of liberty” comes from this section of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
Give two examples of shared powers between the federal and state governments.
What are: taxing, making laws, enforcing laws, building roads, etc.?
Name the three Virginians known for their influence on American founding documents:
– The "Father of the Constitution"
– The author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights
– The author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Explain who is responsible for which document
What is: James Madison (Father of the Constitution), George Mason (VA Declaration of Rights), and Thomas Jefferson (VA Statute for Religious Freedom)?
The 26th Amendment gave this group the right to vote.
What is: Citizens 18 years and older?
Section(s) of the United States Constitution established the three branches of government?
Articles I, II, III
Who is involved in proposing and ratifying amendments to the Constitution?
What is: Congress proposes with a 2/3 vote, and 3/4 of the states must ratify?
This executive department was created after 9/11 to protect the nation from terrorist attacks.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
After the Supreme Court hears oral arguments and reviews written briefs, what are the next two steps in the decision-making process?
What are conference and opinions?
What are the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment?
What are: Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition?