Civics Midterm Review 2017

________ is the study of the rights and duties of citizens.

• Governmen
• Civics
• Democracy
• Political Science

Which of these is NOT a duty?

• Voting
• Signing up for the draft
• paying taxes
• serving on a jury

Which philosopher believed in a balanced separation of powers? 

• Paine
• Locke
• Hobbes
• Montesquieu

What idea says that citizens give up some of their freedoms and abide by the decisions made by the government in order to be safer?

• Rule of Law
• Due Process
• Social contract
• Democracy

What was the first constitution of the United States? 

• Mayflower Compact
• Declaration of Independence
• US Constitution
• Articles of Confederation

Why was the national government under the Articles of Confederation so weak? 

• Framers needed a strong government to fight the British
• Framers feared a government like the British had
• Framers were inexperienced and didn't know how to make a govenrment
• The national government was strong under the Articles

Who was the president of the Constitutional Convention? 

• George Washington
• John Adams
• James Madison
• Thomas Jefferson

Which plan for government created a bicameral legislature with equal representation in one chamber and population-based representation in the other which satisfied both large and small states?

• The New Jersey Plan
• The Great Compromise
• The Virginia Plan
• The Congressional Compromise

Who felt that under the US Constitution, the national government was too strong and the states and people had too little power?

• Loyalist
• Federalist
• Anti-Federalist
• Tories

Which principle of government is embodied in the words, “We the People”?

• Popular sovereignty
• Rule of Law
• Due Process
• Limited Government