Civics Unit 1

Defense, education, taxation, civil rights, and civil liberties are all part of

• executive power

• sovereignty

• public policy

• judicial review

The system that divides control between state and local governments is called

• Bicameralism

• Checks and Balances

• Legalism

• Federalism

American government was primarily influence by ____. This is the country the colonies fought the revolution

• France

• Germany

• Russia

• England

Propaganda was created by Paul Revere after this event to rally the colonists for war

• Boston Marathon

• Boston Massacre

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Boston Tea Party

The individual states lack

• population

• territory

• sovereignty

• government

All men are created equal means

• all people have equal abilities

• all people have access to an equal share of worldly goods

• all people should be treated equally by the law

• all people are subject to the will of the minority

The idea of the rule of the majority in a democracy

• rarely leads to good answers

• accepts the ability of the minority to become the majority by lawful means

• can be used to oppress the minoirty

• is not open to compromise

the term for a change in the constitution or law

• insurrection

• rebellion

• amendment

• proposal

the idea that government and its officers are subject to the law

• checks and balances

• judicial review

• federalism

• rule of law

the constitution has survived for 200 years because

• built in provisions for change

• detailed provisions that anticipated changes to come

• very specific language that limits interpretation

• inflexible provisions that limit change