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Terms in this set (50)A 1. What was the primary goal of the Constitution's framers? C 2. Which sector of society did not have interests that directly sparked the American Revolution? A 3. What led the British to raise taxes on the American colonists during the 1760s? A 4. Colonial protesters of the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act rallied around what famous political slogan? A 5. The Stamp Act was a A 6. The events that led to the Revolutionary War were triggered by which of the following? B 7. What was the most common form of taxation during the colonial era? B 8. Who orchestrated the Boston Tea Party? B 9. A ___________ is a system of government in which states retain
sovereign authority except for powers D 10. Who was not appointed to help draft the Declaration of Independence? A 11.
Under the United States' first constitution, A 12. How was power in Congress divided under the Articles of Confederation? D 13. As a constitution, the Articles of Confederation were concerned primarily with A 14. Under the Articles of Confederation, it was left to the __________ to execute the laws passed by D 15. Which statement
about government under the Articles of Confederation is false? B 16. The Articles of
Confederation were adopted in A 17. What was the purpose of the Annapolis Convention? C 18. The Virginia Plan of the Constitutional Convention proposed a system of representation in the national C 19. According to
historian Charles Beard, the framers of the Constitution were most concerned with A 20. According to the text, the writing of the Constitution demonstrates the A 21. At the Constitutional Convention, the plan to create a Congress where representation was distributed A 22. What did the New Jersey Plan propose for Congress? B 23. The issue of representation, which threatened to wreck
the entire Constitutional Convention, was C 24. During the Philadelphia Convention, in order to win concessions from large states, representatives from B 25. James Madison believed that in the Constitutional Convention the greatest conflict of interests was
A 26. What is the Three-fifths Compromise? D 27. Which of the following was a ramification of the Three-fifths Compromise? C 28. The
ability of the president to veto a bill passed by Congress is a good example of what principle of D 29. The framers of the Constitution attempted to create a government that could do all of the following B 30. The electoral college is B 31. The
system of shared powers, divided between a central government and the states, is called A 32. Which of the following was designed by the framers to be an office directly elected by the people?
B 33. What is the term length of a member of the House of Representatives? B 34. The three branches of government created by the Constitution are C 35. Procedures outlining how to amend the Constitution are found in Article D 36. Which of the following was not a way the framers tried to make the Senate a check against excessive C 37. Only one-third of the Senate is up for re-election during any single election year, because the framers B 38. The framers of the Constitution intended to create a presidency capable of C 39. The principle of giving each branch of government its own constituency is what Montesquieu calls a B 40. To amend the Constitution requires a __________ vote by Congress, and approval by __________ of the D 41. Whose "political gospel" inspired the framers to adopt the concept of the separation of powers? A 42. Compared with the Articles of Confederation, federalism under the Constitution has led to A 43. During the
ratification debates, who were the Antifederalists? C 44.
In the national debate over ratification of the new Constitution, the Federalists B 45. Brutus and Federal Farmer are two pseudonyms used by the D 46. Which constitutional principle of the United States has been most frequently imitated by other nations? C 47. The Antifederalists argued that the
powers of government should be limited by D 48.
How many proposed amendments to the Constitution have been formally offered to Congress? A 49. The most common method of passing an amendment to the Constitution is C 50. The most important political value for the framers of the Constitution was Recommended textbook solutionsUnited States Government: Principles in Practice (Florida)1st EditionLuis Ricardo Fraga 825 solutions
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How is the federal system different from the Articles of Confederation?In a confederation, the state or local government is supreme. The national government only wields powers granted by the states. Most confederations have allowed the local government to nullify a federal law within its own borders. Federalism is a compromise meant to eliminate the disadvantages of both systems.
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