Basic Principles of the Constitution

Basic Principles of the Constitution

11th Grade

8 Qs

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Basic Principles of the Constitution

Basic Principles of the Constitution

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11th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The power to rule belongs to the people. People of the nation are the sources of government power. The government can govern only with the consent of the governed.

Limited government

Popular sovereignty

Judicial review

Federalism

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Government is not all powerful; it can do only those things that the people have given it the power to do. Government must obey the law. This is referred to as “rule of law” or “constitutionalism.” The government and government officials are subject to the law, never “above the law.”

Limited government

Judicial review

Popular sovereignty

Checks and balances

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Constitution distributes the powers of the central government among the three branches—legislative, executive, judicial. Each branch has its own responsibilities. Each branch addresses different tasks of the whole society . . . separation of powers is meant to increase the efficiency of government.

Checks and balances

Judicial review

Limited government

Separation of powers

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Each branch of the government would have some control over the other branches. The principle of checks and balances would prevent any one branch from ignoring or overriding the decisions of the other branches.

Limited government

Popular sovereignty

Checks and balances

Separation of power

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This is the power of the Supreme Court to declare an act of Congress to be unconstitutional. Nowhere in the Constitution is this power stated. However, the interpretation of the Supremacy Clause by Chief Justice Marshall in the case of Marbury v. Madison (1803) set a precedent for the Court to act as the guardian of the Constitution.

Judicial review

Federalism

Checks and balances

Popular sovereignty

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Constitution divided the powers of gov’t between the central or national gov’t and the state or regional governments. Neither kind of government was given all the powers. They are independent of each other in terms of certain powers; however, they must cooperate on certain shared or concurrent powers.

Federalism

Judicial review

Checks and balances

Popular sovereignty

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which constitutional provision is identified with the concept consent of the governed?

rule of law/limited goverenment

popular sovereignty

checks and balances

separation of powers

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