final Exam Civics

What type of government has a king?

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

What did the Magna Carta do for the government of the United States?

• It helped the colonists win the American Revolution

• It encouraged the founding fathers' to create a limited government

• It caused the USA to fail as a nation

• It helped create a representative democracy

Locke said that we should all be born with certain rights - those are

• Just life

• Just liberty

• Life liberty AND the pursuit of your fortunre

• Life , Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

What caused Shay's Rebellion?

• A Weak constitution

• A weak Articles of confederation

• A weak Declaration of Independence

• Shay was just crazy

What describes national Security?

• The United States invading Afghanistan

• The police arresting you

• The city offering you clean water

• A bus picking up its passengers

Which philosopher believed that the government should be divided in three branches?

• Rousseau

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

The people of the United States have a voice in government. That is called

• weakness

• communism

• oligarchy

• popular sovereignty

A strong central government that has all the arrows pointing towards the middle is a

• confederate government

• unitary government

• crazy government

• communist government

A census helps each state to determine how many members will represent them in Washington, DC in the

• SEnate

• House of Representatives

• President's Cabinet

• Mayors race

The US constitution says that the federal government is the 'supreme law of the land" That means that

• federal laws take precedence over conflicting state laws

• States may not enact their own laws

• The US can deny a person its rights as a citizen

• none of the above