Gov - Benchmark 1 Review

Most of the Enlightenment philosophers shared this belief

• There should be NO government

• Only royals should rule the state

• The government exists to serve the people

• government is developed from force

Match the branches with their responsibilities: makes laws, enforces laws, interprets laws

• executive, judicial, legislative

• judicial, executive, legislative

• legislative, judicial, executive

• legislative, executive, judicial

Thomas Jefferson was the main author of this document

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• The Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

Identify a weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

• weak government

• no Congress

• no judicial branch

• no power to wage war

When was the Constitution signed in the United States

This theory states that develop naturally through early family

• The Force Theory

• The Evolutionary Theory

• The Divine Right Theory

• The Social Contract Theory

Three rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights are...

• life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

• life, liberty and property

• goodness, kindness, and service minded

• freedom of speech, religion, and the press

Which quote is the document from?

• US Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

The U.S. government is a(n)

• oligarchy

• direct democracy

• autocracy

• representative democracy

The first attempt to establish a government in the U.S.

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation