Civics Midterm Review

What theory did Thomas Hobbes, Rousseau and Locke have in common in their influence to the founding fathers?

• Consent
• Natural Rights
• Social Contract
• Voting

What term did Baron de Montesquieu use that best describes the division of the government into 3 specific branches with individual powers such as; the Legislative Branch having the authority to collect taxes, the Judicial Branch having the authority to declare laws unconstitutional, and the Executive Branch to negotiate treaties.

• Checks and Balances

• Tri-Government Balance

• Pyramid of Power

• Separation of Powers

What is the purpose of interest groups?

• government agencies that raise awareness lead by political parties

• hold fundraisers to get candidates elected to office

• raise awareness and lobby to pass laws that support their agenda or beliefs

• influence public opinion polls to guide country in political direction that they agree with

Which Enlightenment idea describes an agreement between the people and the government?

• Social Contract

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• treaties

John Locke's thinking influenced what American founder?

• George Washington
• Benjamin Franklin
• Alexander Hamilton
• Thomas Jefferson

Where can this quote be found?

“Bills of attainder . . . are such special acts of the legislature, as inflict capital punishments upon persons supposed to be guilty of high offences, such as treason and felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings."

• Article I of the U.S. Constitution

• Article II of the U.S. Constitution

• Article III of the U.S. Constitution

• Bill of Rights

How does the Bill of Rights protect citizens?

• provides protection of individual rights

• limits the power of the citizens

• describes the powers of the government

• identifies the individual powers of each branch of government

protected the rights of English citizens, limited power of the king, and became the basis for the American Bill of Rights

• English Bill of Rights
• mercantilism
• representative government
• puritans

agreement signed in 1620 by the Pilgrims in Plymouth, to consult each other about laws for the colony and a promise to work together to make it succeed; "Civil body politic" - Self Government / Social Contract

• magna carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• English Bill of Rights

signed in 1215, was the first English document that limited power of the ruler

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• magna carta
• Mayflower Compact
• Declaration of Independence