Government Final

The right to life, liberty and property are considered

• civil rights

• natural rights

• state's rights

• personal rights

John Locke's theory of social contract states that

• people agree to live under a government with the power to make and enforce laws

• monarch should rule over the people and have more power than the legislature

• stronger and smarter people should control the life liberty and property of the weak

• people have the right to exist in the state of nature without inteferance from a government

In a Republican Government

• people directly participate in all government decisions
• aristocrats hold power over the common people
• government representatives are not accountable to the people
• citizens elect representative who make laws and run the government

The Articles of Confederation

• declared independence from Great Britain
• set up a strong national government
• gave Congress the right to collect taxes
• was the country's first national government

The phrase "all men are created equal" is in 

• The U.S. Constitution
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Bill of Rights
• The Declaration of Human Rights

The idea in the Magna Carta that both the government and the people must obey the law is known as

• separation of powers

• federal government

• rule of law

• limited rights

What happened at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787

• war was declared on Great Britain
• a national constitution was written to create a new government
• state constitutions were drafted to raise taxes
• John Adams was elected president of the new nation

What solved the problem of representation at the Philadelphia Convention

• The Virginia Plan
• The Great Compromise
• The Bill of Rights
• The Commerce Clause

Who were the Federalist?

• People who supported the U. S. Constitution

• People who pledged their support to Great Britain

• People who refused to follow the new Constitutuion

• People who opposed setting up a national government

The three-fifths clause in Article 1 Section 2 of the constitution was designed to 

• give Congress the right to tax the public
• give the states the ability to regulate foreign trade
• end the slave trade
• resolve conflicts over slavery between northern and southern states