Government 1-6
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The Preamble to the Constitution begins | "We the People..." |
| The term "government" is derived from the Greek term meaning to | pilot a ship |
| Politics, some say, is | the study of "who gets what, when, and how" |
| Aristotle attempted to devise a way to classify governments. Critical to his analyses was knowledge of | who citizens were ruled by and in whose interest |
| Which of the following did NOT lead to American settlement in the seventeenth century? | belief in intelligent design |
| Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government set out a theory of | natural rights |
| The title page of Leviathan depicts | a giant ruler whose body consists of the bodies of his subjects |
| A direct democracy is a system | in which all members of the polity meet to discuss policy and make decisions |
| Indirect democracy is based on | representation |
| The idea that governments draw legitimacy and power from the governed is often referred to as | popular consent |
| A doctrine that society should be governed by certain ethical principles that are part of nature and can be understood by reason is called | natural law |
| The idea of popular sovereignty can first be found in the | Declaration of Independence |
| A society in which people and groups can express their views publicly and engage in open debate about public policy is the definition of | civil society |
| The importance of political equality in the United States is a reflection of the emphasis placed on ________ in the United States | the individual |
| The coherent set or system of values and beliefs that shape the thinking of individuals and how they view the world, as well as their beliefs about the purpose and scope of government, is known as | political ideology |
| Conservatives generally believe that | there should be less government |
| The Constitution initially mandated that each member of the House of Representatives should represent ________ citizens. | 30,000 |
| Today, a single member of the House of Representatives may represent as many as ________ citizens | almost 1 million |
| The fastest growing segment of the U.S. population is | Hispanic |
| Which of the following ideas is consistent with Samuel Huntington's theory? | Immigration from South and Latin America is potentially destructive to core American principles |
| Part of the mission of the Know-Nothing Party was to | restrict immigration in the United States |
| Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson |
| Eighteen to 21-year-olds received the right to vote with ratification of the | Twenty-Sixth Amendment |
| By the early 1760s, all colonies had | drafted their own constitutions |
| The British used the principle of mercantilism to justify | strict import/export controls on the colonies |
| In 1765, the American colonists initiated a major protest against the | Stamp Act |
| Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams were among the leaders of the | Sons of Liberty |
| The first official meeting of the thirteen colonies was the | Stamp Act Congress |
| To facilitate communication and the flow of information among independence-minded colonists, colonial leaders formed the | Committees of Correspondence |
| The First Continental Congress was called in response to | iron out differences with the king |
| The "shot heard round the world" was fired at | Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts |
| In 1776, Thomas Paine authored a pamphlet arguing for colonial independence from Britain entitled | Common Sense |
| The words and ideas of political philosopher John Locke flow through | the Declaration of Independence |
| A type of government in which the national government is weaker than the sum of its parts is called a/an | confederation |
| Which of the following best describes the relationships between the states under the Articles of Confederation? | a loose league of friendship |
| Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch was | nonexistent |
| One of the Articles of Confederation's greatest weaknesses was that it | had no strong central government |
| The original purpose of the Constitutional Convention as passed by the U.S. Congress was to | revise the Articles of Confederation |
| Some of those in attendance at the Constitutional Convention believed that the new nation was in such dire straits that they were willing to | risk potential charges of treason |
| The smaller states presented a plan at the Constitutional Convention basically advocating the strengthening of the Articles of Confederation. The plan was presented by | New Jersey |
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