Unit 1 Test Review: Foundations and Origins Of The Constitution

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In what way was the government of ancient Athens different from that of the United States?

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Athens was a direct democracy.

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What principle of government presented by the U.S. Constitution is described? In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative, the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations, and the executive in regard to things that depend on the civil law.

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separation of power

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Which of the following best paraphrases this statement? We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...

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People are born with certain rights that no one can take from them.

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The Intolerable Acts led most directly to which event?

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First Continental Congress

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The Framers included the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution for the purpose of helping to settle disputes between different levels of government in the federal system.

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helping to settle disputes between different levels of government in the federal system.

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Which of the following powers is a concurrent (simultaneous) power shared by both the federal government and the state governments? making treaties or forming alliances with foreign governments, regulating public utilities such as gas or electric power,  levying and collecting taxes from businesses and citizens, collecting duties or tariffs on imported goods

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levying and collecting taxes from businesses and citizens

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The Necessary and Proper Clause is used to justify what category of government powers in the federal system?

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the implied powers of the federal government

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But the Supreme Court found that here the President had overstepped his constitutional authority. It held that only Congress, acting under its commerce power, could authorize the seizure of private property in time of war, and it had not done so.

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the judicial branch limiting the executive branch.

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Hamilton's statement is fundamental to which concept?

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Judicial review

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Many states refused to ratify the Constitution unless a general listing of the rights of the people were added to it.

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a general listing of the rights of the people were added to it.