EXAM Civics- 7th grade

Courts make up the ___________ system

• judicial
• executive
• legislative
• presidental

A written plan of government

• budget
• ordinance
• constitution
• constitutional convention

the idea that government receives its power from the people

• Republic Plan
• Representative Democracy
• Popular Sovereignty
• Totalitarianism

The study of the rights and duties of citizens

• government
• duty
• Civics
• Geography

A legal process to obtain citizenship

• Naturalization
• Alien
• Tolerance
• Normaliztion

a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf

• authoritarian regime
• Representative Democracy
• Constitutional Monarchy
• Republic

____________________means “I forbid”

• Reto
• Veto
• Verto
• Vortex

The Magna Carta is important because it established the principle of...

• King above the law
• Freedom of Speech
• Limited Government
• Removed the King

The president of the Congress was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.

• George Washington
• John Handcock
• Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Paine

The Second Continental Congress approved the ________________________________________ on July 4, 1776.

• The Constitution
• The Mayflower Compact
• Declaration of Independence
• The Articles of Confederation