Government End of Course Exam Review

Thinking critically about public issues, voting, and participating in public affairs is all an expectation of citizens in this type of government.

• Dictatorship

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Constitutional Democracy

When both parties search for common ground or areas of mutual agreement to solve an arguments they are using

• consensus building.

• conflict management.

• avoidance.

Protecting individual rights is said to be the main purpose of government under which philosophy of government?

• totalitarianism

• socialism

• communism

• natural rights philosophy

The fact the Constitution did not explicitly protect the individual rights of people was the key argument made against ratifying the Constitution by this group

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

When citizens give sovereignty (power) to their government in exchange for the government protecting their rights it is considered to be

• a system of checks and balances.

• separation of powers of government.

• limiting the powers of government.

• the social contract between the government and the people.

James Madison stated in Federalist #51 that "you must first enable the government to control the governed....oblige it to control itself". Madison is suggesting a need for

• a strong executive.

• a system of checks and balances.

• an independent military.

• a need for an independent judiciary.

Which of the following is considered a flaw of the government under the Articles of Confederation?

• Too many taxes

• Lack of a Central Power (Executive Power)

• Too flexible of rules that made amending laws too easy

• Too many national courts

The original purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to

• ratify state constitutions.

• draft a Bill of Rights.

• revise the Articles of Confederation.

• create the Constitution.

Alexander Hamilton stated "Here sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives." What basic principle of government is Hamilton highlighting?

• Federalism

• Limited government

• Popular Soverignty

• Separation of powers

The Bill of Rights consists of the

• First 10 Amendments

• The 7 Articles of the Constitution

• The Last 10 Amendments

• The first paragraph to the Declaration of Independence