CE.2 Retest Review

President Biden is currently the elected executive leader of the United States of America. This type of government is called a

• Dictatorship

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Tyranny

The Charters of the Virginia Company of London established the .

• freedom of speech

• freedom of religion

• inalienable rights

• rights of Englishmen

The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom set forth the basic freedom of .

• Speech

• Religious belief and opinion

• Peaceful Assembly

• The Press

George Mason was the principal author of the

• Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• Articles of Confederation

Which of these is NOT something the U.S. Constitution does?

• Condemns the individual worth and dignity of the individual

• Establishes majority rule with minority rights

• Protects freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition

• Establishes structure of U.S. Government

The Virginia Declaration of Rights served as a model for the

• U.S. Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Bill of Rights

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

What does it mean to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity?"

• To promote the general welfare

• To establish justice

• To ensure domestic tranquility

• To protect our freedom

Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• U.S. Constitution

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Gettysburg Address

We have a government that is built on the system of checks and balances as well as separation of powers. Ultimately, this means that the government's power is between three branches: Legislative, Executive and Judicial and into a federal and state government.

• United

• Divided

• Combined

• Abridged

How does the Preamble begin?

• When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to separate from another...

• We the People...

• Fourscore and seven years ago...

• Give me liberty or give me death