Midterm Review

What is a citizen's most important civic responsibility?

• Rights

• Paying Taxes

• Voting

• Obeying all laws

What type of government is in control, if a ruler takes control and requires complete obedience and allows for some rights as long as those rights do not pose a threat to his power?

• Authoritarian

• Constitutional Monarch

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

What is the metaphor used to describe a culture in which a diverse group of people have lost their specific original cultures or identities to a new dominant culture (assimilate)?

• Salad Bowl theory

• Social Contract

• Melting Pot

• Naturalization

Which act was passed after the events of 9/11 that brought into question the debate between individual liberties/privacy and national security?

• National Security Reform

• Freedom Act

• 9/11 Laws

• Patriot Act

Which responsibility fills in the gaps that government can't provide?

• Voting

• Volunteering - Community Service

• Staying Informed

• Service in the Military

In the preamble to the Constitution, which of the six principles is being represented by the phrase "We the People"?

• Federalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Checks and Balances

• Separation of Powers

Too much power being given to the states and the inability to tax were weaknesses of which government?

• US Constitution

• Mayflower Compact

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia House of Burgesses

What was the name of the compromise that settled the conflict over how to count slaves towards representation and taxation for Congressional votes?

• The Great Compromise

• Electoral College Compromise

• 3/5ths Compromise

• Commerce Compromise

What are the correct steps for a bill to become a law?

• Sent to the other house of Congress, bill introduced, sent to committee, debate/vote by the whole house

• Sent to committee, bill introduced, debate/vote by the whole house, sent to the other house of Congress

• Bill introduced, sent to committee, debate/vote by the whole house, sent to the other house in Congress

• Bill introduced, debate/vote by the whole house, sent to the other house, sent to committee

What is the way to slow down the legislative process by talking the bill to death?

• Cloture

• Veto

• Presidential intervention

• Filibuster