USVA Final Review

The 10th Amendment

• limits the power of the state government

• reserves powers not expressed for the states

• allows the federal govt to control all powers

• increases the power of the local govts

All the following are ways the media influences the political process EXCEPT —

• identifies candidates

• emphasizes selected issues

• tells people who to vote for

• reports candidates background to the public

An example of a democracy is

• the pope controls the Vatican

• Queen Elizabeth rules Britain

• Trump was elected president in the US

• Kim Jong rules North Korea

The Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence both

• listed complaints against the king

• restricted the king's power

• happened b/c the king disrespected people's rights

• were written by colonists

John Locke is thought to be one of the philosophers whose ideas influenced Jefferson to write what document?

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Petition to England

What book argues, "The best form of government includes a separation of powers?"

• The Spirit of Laws Montesquieu

• The Social Contract Rousseau

• Leviathan Hobbes

• Two Treatises on Government Locke

Who wrote the Bill of Rights?

• Washington

• Madison

• Jefferson

• Franklin

Guaranteed the rights of Englishmen to the colonists

• Articles of Confederation

• VA Declaration of Rights

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

Served as a model for the first 10 amendment to the Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• VA Declaration of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

Who was the principal author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights?

• Jefferson

• Adams

• Washington

• Mason