1-SOL Study Quiz for Civics and Economics

What is the fundamental political principle that means the people are the source of any and all governmental power?

• Limited Government

• Consent of the Governed

• Rule of Law

• Democracy

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CE.2a

What is it called when the people elect public officeholders who make laws and conduct government on their behalf?

• Limited Government

• Rule of Law

• Representative Government

• Democracy

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CE.2a

What is the fundamental principle that says government and those who govern ar bound by the law?

• Rule of Law

• Consent of the Governed

• Representative Government

• Limited Government

What is the fundamental principle that states the government is not all-powerful and may do only those things the people have given it power to do?

• Democracy

• Limited Government

• Representative Government

• Consent of the Governed

In this type of government, the people rule.

• Communism

• Theocracy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

Why didn't the Articles of Confederation work?

• Because people have certain unalienable rights.

• Because it maintained that major powers resided with the central government, taxes could be collected, and laws could be enforced.

• Because it maintained that major powers resided with the states, provided a weak central government with no power to tax or enforce laws.

• Because it gave the colonists the same rights as Englishmen.

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CE2.b

What is the name of the document which established the republican structure of the U.S. government?

• The Constitution (including the Bill of Rights)

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

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CE.2.b

Which of these documents served as a model for the Bill of Rights?

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• The Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

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CE.2b

What is the name of the document that guaranteed freedom of religious beliefs and opinions?

• Declaration of Independence

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• Articles of Confederation

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CE.2b

Which of these documents claimed that people have certain "unalienable rights" (life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness) and that all people are equal under the law?

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

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CE.2b