Government Benchmark, 1st Quarter

How can the executive branch check the power of the legislative branch?

Each branch of the federal government can limit the power of the other two branches. How?

Which is a way that governments are classified?

How was the United States set up under the Articles of Confederation?

A terms classifies a government according to the number of people who can participate in it?

What powers did the national government have under the Articles of Confederation?

Which are the three basic powers of government?

How did the Three-Fifths compromise affect representation in Congress?

Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?

Which is the same as government by popular consent or indirect democracy?

How were the states represented in Congress under the Articles of Confederation?

Delegates met in Philadelphia in 1787 to revise the Articles. What did this meeting become?

What principle holds that a government may do only things that the people have given it power?

What was true about the national government under the Articles of Confederation?

How was the importance of the Magna Carta?

In which theory of the origin of the state did individuals or a group seize power by force?

Which Compromise combined parts of the VA and NJ plans to make the legislature like it is today

Why is it difficult to settle a dispute between two states under the Articles of Confederation?

What caused many people to believe that the Articles of Confederation must be revised?

What finally solved the conflict at the Constitutional Convention over representation?

When the people themselves create laws and policies, what type of government do they have?

In which system are all key powers given to the central government?

What is the introduction to the Constitution called?

Which is true of the prime minister and cabinet in a parliamentary government?

The system that allows each branch of the Federal Government to restrain the other two branches

How did the courts get the power of judicial review?

Which of the following is part of the role of the judicial branch?

Which gives more power to a central government than to local governments?

Which theory claims that the state came from primitive families?

When thinking about government by geographic location, which is a basic form of government?

The United States government has a federal system. What does that mean?

What means that government can govern only with the consent of the governed?

Which are the four characteristics of the state?

Which is true of a sovereign state?

Basic principle of government means that people have rights that government cannot take away?

Which principle means that government is bound by the rule of law?

On which point did the Virginia and New Jersey Plans disagree?

What does federalism mean?

How are differences usually settled in a democracy?

Which leader is known as 'The Father of the Constitution?'

The Bill of Rights is a list of

Which of the following describes the social contract theory of how the state came to be?

Which is a characteristic of every state?

Political Scientists frequently classify governments according to?

The Magna Carta?

Which of the following best describes a dictatorship?

Which has been most important in the development of government in the United States?

Which theory says that the state began when families joined together and claimed territory?

Why did smaller states favor the New Jersey Plan over the Virginia Plan?

According to the divine right theory, what gave people of royal birth the right to rule?