POS 2041 1-3

Which of the following is the system of government adopted under the Constitution?

• federal

• unitary

• aristocracy

• confederation

Which form of government is best defined as a few people ruling in their own interest over constituents?

• Monarchy

• Aristocracy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

Article I, section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to "punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas." What sort of power is the authority to punish pirates?

• police

• enumerated

• implied

• reserved

Which is an example of a concurrent power?

• coining money

• conducting foreign relations

• taxing

• administering elections

What term denotes an economic theory designed to increase a nation's wealth through the development of commercial industry and a favorable balance of trade?

• feudalism

• communism

• capitalism

• mercantilism

What pamphlet galvanized the American public against reconciliation with Great Britain?

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Rights and Resolves

• Second Treatise on Civil Government

• The Republic

Which was not included in the Articles of Confederation?

• the power of the national government to raise taxes

• a national government with a Congress empowered to make peace, coin money, appoint officers for an army, control the post office, and negotiate with Indian tribes

• one vote in the legislature, the Congress of the Confederation, for each state regardless of size

• each state's retention of its independence and sovereignty, or ultimate authority, to govern within its territories

The Anti-Federalists felt that the proposed national government __________.

• would be effective because representatives could operate independently of their constituencies

• was necessary to expand commerce and equality in the United States

• would be too powerful

• would be too weak without the power of the purse

In McCulloch v. Maryland, the Marshall Court decided that the federal government could create a national bank based on the Constitution's __________ clause.

• establishment

• separation

• reserved power

• supremacy

Which of the following is defined by separate and equally powerful state and national governments?

• progressive federalism

• marble-cake federalism

• dual federalism

• cooperative federalism