Foundations of Government/1st 9wks

What are the Bill of Rights?

• The first three articles of the Constitution

• The first 10 amendments to the Constitution

• The bill passed to create the Constitution

• The letter sent to King George III to declare independence from England.

The three branches of government are

• The Senate, the Legislative, and the House of Representatives

• The Executive, the Senate, the Legislative

• The Executive, the Judicial, the Bureaucracy

• The Executive, the Judicial, the Legislative

The first government of the United States was

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Constitution

• The Declaration of Independence

• The New Jersey Plan

Which house of Congress is elected based on population?

• The Senate

• The House of Representatives

The job of the legislative branch is

• to make laws

• to enforce laws

• to interpret laws

• to veto laws

Whats the term:

The people give permission for their government leaders to rule, usually through voting.

• Limited Government

• Consent of the Governed

• Majority Rule

• Separation of Powers

The Framers of the Constitution met in which city?

• Lynn

• Washington D.C.

• Philadelphia

• New York City

Modern democracies are all

• Direct democracies

• Representative democracies

• Flawed democracies

• Careful democracies

The compromise that created a bicameral legislature that had one house based on population and the other based on equality is called

• The Connecticut Compromise

• The 3/5ths Compromise

• The Slave Trade and Commerce Compromise

• The New Jersey Compromose

Rule of the people, in which citizens get to participate in the decision-making processes of the government, is known as __________________.

• aristocracy
• monarchy
• democracy
• anarchy