Articles of Confederation Review

What does a bicameral legislature mean?

• That there is one house

• That there is two houses

True or False: States could create their own currency under the Articles of Confederation?

• True

• False

True or False: The government under the Articles of Confederation had no Executive Branch (President) or Judicial Branch (Supreme Court)

• True

• False

What did the Magna Carta do?

• It gave the king unlimited power

• It said the king was subject to the law just like every citizen

• It gave the United States independence

• It was the first American attempt at a constitution

The political thinkers that influenced the American founding fathers belonged to what era of philosophy?

• Existentialism

• Continental

• Scholastic

• The Enlightenment

What is a Constitutional Monarchy

• There is no king only a parliament

• The king has unlimited powers

• There is a king but he is limited in power by laws and regulations

Which theory of government argues that the power of the government comes from the people and they can overthrow the government if it is corrupt?

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

Which one of these amendments has to do with the right to bear arms?

• The First Amendment

• The Second Amendment

• The Third Amendment

Which of these amendments discusses freedom of speech and freedom of religion?

• The First Amendment

• The Second Amendment

• The Third Amendment

• The Fourth Amendment

True or False: The ninth and tenth amendments have to do with rights that are not stated in the Constitution.

• True

• False