Unit 5: The Constitution

In creating the Virginia Plan, Madison decided to separate the powers of government. Who originally developed the concept of separation of powers?

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

May Flower Compact

Virginia House of Burgesses

English Bill of Rights

Magna Carta

All of these documents led to what type of government?

• Self-government

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Military controlled government

The United States government is most similar to:

• Ancient Rome

• Ancient China

• Ancient Egypt

• Middle Ages

Our constitution is called a democracy because the power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law.

What form of government described above and studied by the framers, originated in Athens, Greece?

• Direct democracy

• Totalitarianism

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

What was the purpose of the Magna Carta?

• To limit the power of the king

• To give all English citizens rights

• To give all US citizens rights

• To create an all-new government

This idea, originated by John Locke, gave each branch the ability to limit the powers of the branches

• Separation of powers

• Delegated power

• Federalism

• Checks and balances

This level of government had the most power under the Articles of Confederation

• International

• National

• State

• Local

Which was NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• It had no president.

• It had no military.

• States had all the power.

• It first united the 13 states.

This territory was surveyed and sold into townships to make money for the new country.

• Louisiana Territory

• Northwest Territory

• Indian Territory

• The slave states

How did the framers of the Constitution commit treason?

• They waged war against the Articles of Confederation and its supporters

• They supported the English during the war

• They betrayed the loyalty of their president

• They replaced the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution