Government Unit 1 Review

In English history, the Magna Carta (1215) and the English Bill of Rights (1689) both reinforced the concept of

• universal suffrage

• limited government

• religious toleration

• a laissez-faire economy

What is the main difference between a parliamentary democracy and presidential democracy?

• A parliamentary democracy does not have a judicial branch.

• A parliamentary democracy does not have an individual executive but a presidential democracy does.

• A presidential democracy does not have an equivalent to Parliament, the parliamentary democracy's legislative branch.

• A presidential democracy allows the population to choose the executive, but a parliamentary democracy allows the legislature to choose the executive.

Which enlightenment thinker believed that a strong government is needed to keep order?

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

John Locke believed that the government gets its right to govern from the people. This principle is included in the Declaration of Independence and can be considered -

• Popular Sovereignty

• Majority Rule

• Equal Protection

• Consent of the Governed

According to John Locke, which rights were guaranteed by natural law?

• Trial by jury and no cruel punishments.

• Freedom of speech and the press.

• Life, liberty, and property.

• Freedom of worship and the right to petition.

Document signed in 1689 that guaranteed the rights of English Citizens.

• Checks and Balances

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Virginia Statute of Religios Freedom

• English Bill of Rights

Montesquieu's plan of separation of to keep goverment from getting too powerful in one branch.

• Checks and balances.

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Natural Laws

• Petition of Right

There is a separation between the executive and legislative branches of government in which type of government?

• Federal

• Republican

• Presidential

• Parliamentary

What is the title given to the head of a Parliamentary government?

• President

• Prime minister

• Governor

• Monarch

This system of government gives the key powers to the national government.

• Federal

• Socialists

• Confederacy

• Unitary