Civics Unit 1 Review A

Anti-federalists wanted a Bill of Rights added to the constitution to help protect...

• Individual Rights
• State Rights
• Slavery
• The Articles of Confederation

______ is the belief that the government gets its power from the people.

• Rule of Law
• Popular Sovereignity
• Checks and balances
• Federalism

What article of the Constitution created the Executive Branch of government?

• ArcticleI
• Article II
• Article III
• Article IV

The Constitution replaced the ______ as the governing document of the country.

• Declaration of Independence
• Bill of Rights
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Articles of Confederation

The _______ is the opening paragraph of the Constitution.

• Article 1
• Preamble
• Bill of Rights
• Prelude

Which branch executes the laws?

• Executive
• Judicial
• Appellate
• Legislative

What is the name for a change or addition to the Constitution?

• Federalism
• Amendment
• Ratification
• Veto

Which compromise is made up of ideas from the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey plan?

• The Great Compromise
• The three-fifths compromise
• The constitutional compromise
• The big compromise

Whose writings inspired Thomas Jefferson with the Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Paine
• Benjamin Franklin
• John Locke
• George Washington

Which philosopher believed in the separation of powers in the government into 3 branches?

• Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire