Honors Civics Pre-Assessment

Please retype the HN Civics Honor Code below:

I shall uphold the values and ideals of MHS by engaging in responsible behavior and striving always to be the best possible version of myself. I am accountable for my actions and hold myself and others to the highest moral and ethical standards of academic integrity and good citizenship as defined in the student handbook.

Use the excerpt to answer the question that follows:

No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.

—Magna Carta, 1215

What best identifies a similar principle as it appears in the United States government?

• the separation of powers as designed in the Constitution.

• due process protections as provided for in the Bill of Rights.

• judicial review as established in the Marbury v. Madison decision.

• the belief in human equality as stated in the Declaration of Independence.

The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as the:

• the Articles of Confederation

• the last 10 amendments

• the Bill of Rights

• the Amendments of 1776

Use the excerpt to answer the question that follows:

Article. I. Section. 1. of the U.S. Constitution.

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Based on the reading, the Constitution established a system of checks and balances by creating:

• a bicameral legislature

• a system of federal courts

• the electoral college

• three branches of government

The seven articles of the U.S. Constitution establishes how many branches of the federal government:

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Use the excerpt to answer the question that follows:

“The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions…”

Many scholars today believe that Jefferson derived his most famous ideas in the Declaration of Independence from the writings of the English philosopher John Locke who wrote his Second Treatise of Government in 1689 at the time of England's Glorious Revolution. Locke wrote that all individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain "inalienable" rights. That is, rights that are God-given and can never be taken or even given away. Among these fundamental rights, Locke said, are "life, liberty, and property." These rights are referred to as:

• personal rights

• declaratory rights

• natural rights

• Bill of Rights

What amendment protects one’s basic rights of speech, press, assembly, petition, and press?:

• 1st Amendment

• 2nd Amendment

• 8th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

The political slogan “no taxation without _____” is believed to originate during the 1700’s as a result of one of many common grievances of American colonists in the original 13 colonies leading to the American Revolution.

• a voice

• tyranny

• revolution

• representation

This early set of laws known for having served as a model for establishing justice are known as what?

One of the earliest and most complete written legal codes used to rule Babylonean society, this code listed 282 laws dealing with a variety of subjects. A few examples of these laws are listed below:

196. If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.

197. If he breaks another man's bone, his bone shall be broken.

198. If he put out the eye of a freed man, or breaks the bone of a freed man, he shall pay one [silver] mina.

199. If he put out the eye of a man's slave, or breaks the bones of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.

200. If a man knocks out the teeth of a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a [silver] mina.

202. If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than e, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.

• Rule of Law

• English Common Law

• Constitutional law

• Hammurabi’s Code

The Triangular Trade route best exemplifies:

• benefits of the exploration of Asia by Europeans.

• effects of the Middle Passage on the Americas.

• introduction of South American products into North America.

• interaction of cultures between the Western and Eastern hemispheres.