Mid-Year EOC REview

Why did the Founding Fathers separate the power to make, enforce and interprete laws between different branches of government?

• to increase the power of the presdiency.

• to prevent one branch of government from becoming too powerful.

• to make the national government more efficient.

• to ensure that Congress would act according to the will of the people.

What pamphlet denounce British rule and fanned the flames of revolution?

• Mayflower Compact

• Two Treatises of Government

• Common Sense

• Magna Carta

What ideas of John Locke influenced our founding fathers?

• Social Contract

  Natural Rights

• Separation of Power

  Checks and Balances

• Rule of Law

  Self Government

What did John Locke say Natural Rights were?

• LIFE ,LIBERTY, PROPERTY

• LIFE, LIBERTY, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

• LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, JUDICIAL BRANCHES

WHAT WERE MONTESQUIEU'S BIG IDEAS AND WHICH DOCUMENT DID HIS IDEAS INFLUENCE?

• NATURAL RIGHTS SOCIAL CONTRACT

  INFLUENCED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

• SEPARATION OF POWER

  CHECKS AND BALANCES INFLUENCED THE

  ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

• SEPARATION OF POWER

  CHECKS AND BALANCES INFLUENCED THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE PREAMBLE TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION?

• IT ESTABLISHES THE GOALS OF THE CONSTITUTION

• IT OUTLINES RESPONSIBILITIES OF CITIZENS

• IT DEFINES THE ROLES OF THE 3 BRANCHES

HOW DID THE U.S. CONSTITUTION FIX A MAJOR PROBLEM OF THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION?

• THE CONSTITUTION PROVIDED FOR CHECKS AND BALANCES

• THE CONSTITUTION RESERVED MORE POWER FOR THE STATES

• THE CONSTITUTION DELEGATED MORE POWER TO THE FEDERAL GOVT.

WHAT IDEA IS EXPRESSED BY THE PHRASE "A GOVERNMENT OF LAWS, NOT MEN"?

• THE RULE OF LAW SHOULD BE ELIMINATED

• ALL LAWS SHOULD APPLY EQUALLY TO ALL PEOPLE

• ELECTED OFFICIALS SHOULD NOT INITIATE CHANGES IN THE LAW

THE FOUNDING FATHERS SEPERATED POWER INTO 3 BRANCHES TO KEEP THE COUNTRY SAFE FROM TYRANNY. WHAT UPHOLDS THIS IDEA?

• CHECKS AND BALANCES

• PREAMBLE

• AMENDMENTS

WHICH IS A RIGHT FOUND IN THE U.S. BILL OF RIGHTS?

• RIGHT TO VOTE

• RIGHT TO PETITION

• FREEDOM FROM SLAVERY

• NO POLL TAXES