Backgrounds of Government Test Review

The "Rule of Law" protects people's

• Rights

• Checks and balances

• Unit 5 Backgrounds in Government

• Businesses

How does the rule of law affect US government officials and institutions?

• Requires governments to create new laws

• Prevents government from making their work public

• Ensures that government officials are exempt from the law

• Holds government officials accountable to the law.

What is an important consequence to the Rule of Law?

• Government runs off of a majority rule policy

• Citizens are protected from arbitrary and abusive government

• Government rules and procedures are reduced

• Government can act on instinct during an emergency

The Rule of Law can be described as

• Fair procedures

• Transparency of institutions

• Accountability to the law

• All the above

The Magna Carta can best be described as

• A historic document that established the principle of the rule of law and limited power of the monarchy

• A religious text that outlines the values of Christianity

• A treaty that ended the 100 years war

• A scientific theory that explains the formation of the galaxies

Why was the Magna Carta important to democracy?

• It guaranteed liberty to all

• It limited the king's power and prevented absolutism from taking hold

• It outlawed slavery

• It gave Parliament more power than the monarch

How did the English Bill of Rights change the government structure of England?

• It limited Parliament's power and increased the power of the church

• It increased government spending and focused on absolute control

• It increased the role of a sovereign leader over Parliament.

• It limited the monarch's power to be shared with Parliament and the people.

When this was published in early 1776, many American colonists became convinced that they should act to form a new kind of nation independent from the rule of Britain's "cruel" courts:

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Mayflower Compact

• US Constitution

The American concept of due process can be traced back to common law practices that were first mentioned in the:

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

• US Constitution

John Locke's ideas that every citizen possessed natural rights (rights every human should be born with), which later influenced the American Revolution, included which of the following rights?

• Life, liberty, happiness

• Freedom of speech and press

• Freedom of religion

• Life, liberty and property