Foundations of Government

All of the following are characteristics of the state EXCEPT

When you “give and take” to reach a solution

Under the federalism system, powers are:

Which economic principle suggests govt should keep their hands off of business and markets?

One of the basic liberties the colonists wanted in the separation from Great Britain was:

Institution through which state maintains social order provides services and enforces decision

Supporters of the New Jersey Plan endorsed the Connecticut Compromise because it called for:

The Federalists believed in

Shays’ Rebellion was important because:

The supreme and absolute authority within a territory

The First Continental Congress called for the colonists to

Government where individuals are elected to do the work of government for the people

Government is not all powerful

Believed that all men possessed the natural rights of life, liberty, and property

Which of the following best exemplifies the meaning of democracy?

Which of the following terms CANNOT be used to describe the American governmental system?

Suggest the state developed as the pop of a territory grew from a family to a tribe to a state

The laws or contract of a state

Ppl agree to give the power needed to maintain order and the state protects its citizens

Served as the acting government during the Revolutionary War with John Hancock as President

A two house legislature

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of democracy?

The first Constitution for the thirteen states was the

The original purpose of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was to:

Articles of Conf provided for a weak national govt because they could not...

Felt that human nature was selfish, cruel, and could not govern itself

The form of government in which power is held in one central agency is a(n)

The Articles of Confederation established all of the following EXCEPT:

The Bill of Rights

An English document, it is the basis for the concept of limited government

The Declaration of Independence contains all of the following ideas EXCEPT:

A government NOT responsible to the people and cannot be limited by them

Proposed by the Anti-Federalists, these were the first 10 amendments to the Constitution

Under which of these economic systems are buyers and sellers most influential?

Which was NOT the subject of a major compromise at the Constitutional Convention?

Common Sense explained that

The idea that the people living in a territory were made into a state

A government made of up a small group of people