REVIEW JEOPARDY!

Chapter 1 and 2 TestFeb 3, 2009

This theory of government is most associated with monarchies.

What is Divine Right Theory?

Montesquieu is most associated with these political concepts.

What is separation of powers and checks and balances?

These are the four characteristics of a state.

What are population, territory, sovereignty, and government?

List the six purposes of the American system of government.

What are: to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty?

Social Security for retired workers fulfills this purpose of government.

What is promote the general welfare?

The states adopted the Constitution in order to fulfill this purpose of government.

What is form a more perfect union?

“The law must be reasonable, fair, and impartial,” is an example of this purpose of government.

What is establish justice?

The War on Terror is an example of this purpose of government.

What is provide for the common defense?

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly are all examples of this purpose of government.

What is secure the blessings of liberty?

The Harris County sheriff is responsible for implementing this purpose of government.

What is insure domestic tranquility?

In a parliamentary system, the legislators can issue a vote of “no-confidence” in the executive (the prime minister and his ministers), which causes the government to fail and forces new elections. According to the “Forms of Government” chart on p 15 of your book, a no-confidence vote could happen in these countries.

What are Botswana, Costa Rica, and India?

Using the table on pg 15 of your book, list two countries in which you are likely to be locked up for criticizing the “Dear Leader.”

What are Cuba and Syria?

Using the chart on pg 15 of your textbook, name the countries that meet this definition: “a government in which power is divided between a central government and other local governments.”

What are Brazil, India, and the United States?

In a dictatorship, sovereign power is held by this individual or small group.

What is a dictator or oligarch?

In this form of government, the executive and legislative branches are separate and coequal and accountable to voters.

What is presidential government?

Provide the definition of a unitary government and name one example mentioned in your book.

What is “a government in which all power belongs to a central agency”? Examples: Botswana, Costa Rica, Cuba, France, Syria.

In this form of government, the members of the executive branch are also members of the legislative branch.

What is parliamentary government?

Provide the definition of a confederation.

What is an alliance of independent states?

According to the chart “Common Features of State Constitutions” on p 39 of your textbook, the first state constitutions had these four things in common.

What are popular sovereignty, limited government, civil rights and liberties, and separation of powers/checks and balances?

Fill in the blank:

Federal System = ___________ = Representative Democracy = Indirect Democracy

What is Republic?

The Declaration of Independence contains many ideas that were originally expressed by this Enlightenment thinker.

Who is Locke?

This Founding Father is most closely associated with the Declaration of Independence.

Who is Jefferson?

Taxation without representation, quartering of troops, and eliminating trial by jury are examples of this list, which explains why the colonists wanted to declare independence from Britain.

What are grievances?

This Virginian is most associated with the writing of our Constitution.

Who is James Madison?

This individual was the president of the Second Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence, and was a leading Anti-Federalist.

Who is John Hancock?

These two English documents influenced the establishment of the US Government because they emphasized basic notions of representative government, such as limited government and the protection of the citizens’ fundamental rights.

What are the Magna Carta and the Petition of Right?

This plan for the newly established US Government proposed the following

• Bicameral legislature• # of representatives determined by population• Representatives elected by the people• 1 executive (president)• Supreme Court and lower courts• Judges appointed by the legislative branch

What is the Virginia Plan?

John Hancock, Patrick Henry, and Samuel Adams were key members of this group in the debate over the ratification of the Constitution?

Who are the Anti-Federalists?

The Constitutional Convention, the Connecticut Compromise, the ratification process, the Three-Fifths Compromise, and the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise are all examples of this basic concept of democracy.

What is the necessity of COMPROMISE?

The “Great Compromise” is another name for this proposal.

What is the Connecticut Compromise?

This was the Anti-Federalists’ key complaint about the Constitution.

What is the lack of a Bill of Rights?

This group supported the ratification of the Constitution and favored a strong federal/central government.

Who were the Federalists?

This group opposed the ratification of the Constitution and favored a weaker central/federal government.

Who were the Anti-Federalists?

These essays helped convince New York to ratify the US Constitution.

What are the Federalist Papers?

This compromise said slaves should be counted as 3/5ths of a person for representation and taxation purposes.

What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?

“…whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government…”

This quote from the Declaration of Independence was inspired by this political philosopher.

Who is Locke?

This plan for the new US Government proposed the following:

• Unicameral legislature• Each state to have an equal number of

representatives• Representatives to be chosen by the state

legislatures• 2 or more executives• Supreme Court only• Judges appointed by executive branch

What is the New Jersey Plan?

The delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention are also known by this name.

What is “framers”?

List the five basic concepts of democracy.

What are1.Fundamental worth of the individual2.Equality of all persons3.Majority rule/minority rights4.Necessity of compromise5.Individual freedom?

This is the process needed to achieve majority agreement.

What is compromise?

Direct Democracy works best at this level of government/in this size of community.

What is local government/small community?

The concept of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” comes from this political thinker.

Who is Locke?

This plan for the new US Government proposed the following:

• Bicameral legislature• Lower house elected by the people• # of lower house reps determined by population• # of upper house reps equal for all states• Electoral College chooses president• Judges for Supreme Court and lower courts chosen by

executive, but approved by legislators.

What is the Connecticut Compromise?

First president of the United States.

Who is George Washington?

Madison, Jay, and Hamilton were key members of which group?

Who are the Federalists?

In the view of Locke and other Enlightenment thinkers, the social contract theory challenged this form of government/this theory of government.

What is monarchy/divine right theory?