U.S. History - LightUnit 902 - Self test 1

Thomas Jefferson

• Declaration of Independence

• The Preamble

• The Bill of Rights

When citizens select others to speak for them

• constitutional democracy

• direct democracy

• representative democracy

When citizens direct the government

• constitutional government

• direct government

• representative government

What type of democracy guarantees individual liberties

• direct democracy

• constitutional democracy

• representative democracy

This system limits government power

• Federal system

• Article IV

• checks and balances

The federal system is also called

• national or central government

• the first plan of government in the United States

• Congress

What did the Tenth Amendment do?

• Gave states reserved powers

• Allowed citizens to direct the government

• guaranteed individual liberties

What is the supreme law of the land

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Constitution

Which article of the constitution gave republican government to the states

• Article IV (4)

• Article I

• Article III

The writers of the constitution are called

• The founding fathers

• Thomas Jefferson

• The Federal government