Unit 2 Review

Which of the idea's from Ancient Greece were the Founders infuenced by? (More than one answer)

• Polis

• Civic Participartion

• Written constitutions

• Separation of Powers

Name an idea that ties to America's founding ideas on law and government.

• Collective ownership of means of production

• Rejection of modernism

• Equality for all

• Central planning

Identify an impact the Mayflower Compact had on colonists' views of government.

• No excessive punishments

• Due process of law

• Consent of the Governed

What idea did the Founding Father's use from John Locke?

• Right to a speedy trial

• Separation of powers

• Habeas corpus

• Natural law

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us Identify the British policy that ignited this colonial response.

Which British Act led to the colonists complaining about the statement above?

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Townshend Acts

Identify a weakness of the Articles of Confederation.

• the thirteen colonies worked together

• Rules for trading between states were in place

• Congress had no power to enforce its laws; No executive Branch

• Each state could have an influence

Under which system of government is power split between independent states and a central government?

• Confederal

• Federal

• Parliamentary

• Unitary

Which article of the Constitution discusses the amendment process?

• Article II

• Article III

• Article IV

• Article V

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

What is the purpose of this part of the Preamble in the U.S. Constitution?

• to describe the branches of the federal government

• to explain the need for a separation of powers

• to create the supreme law of the land

• to establish the six goals of the US government

Which statements gives an Anti-Federalists viewpoint? (select more than one answer)

• We need a Bill of Rights to Guarantee the Rights of the common citizen.

• "The Constitution takes rights away from the states."

• "The Constitution is necessary to bind our nation together."

• "The nation is not as important as the individual states are."