AP Gov Foundational Documents Quiz

“Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it impacts to fire its destructive agency.”

Which document was this quote taken from?

• Federalist No. 10

• Federalist No. 51

• Federalist No. 78

• Brutus No. 1

“The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.”

Which document was this quote taken from?

• Brutus No. 1

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Which document is this quote taken from?

• Declaration of Independence

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail

• Brutus No. 1

• Federalist No. 78

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”

Which document was this quote taken from?

• Federalist No. 10

• Federalist No. 51

• Federalist No. 70

• Federalist No. 78

“A feeble Executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever it may be in theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.”

Which document was this quote taken from?

• Federalist No. 51

• Federalist No. 70

• Federalist No. 78

• Federalist No. 10

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

Which document was this quote taken from?

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail

“A power to make all laws, which shall be necessary and proper… is a power very comprehensive and definite… and may be exercised in a such manner as entirely to abolish the state legislatures.”

Which document is this quote taken from?

• Brutus No. 1

• Constitution

• Federalist No. 51

• Declaration of Independence

“There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves.”

Which document is this quote taken from?

• Federalist No. 78

• Federalist No. 70

• Brutus No. 1

• Declaration of Independence

“(Congress shall have the power) To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.”

Which document is this quote taken from?

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• Federalist No. 51

This foundational document defined certain 'unalienable Rights', which included 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail