Beacon American Govt. Review So Far 05/09

1. A In this type of democracy, the will of the people is translated into public policy by the people themselves through mass meetings.  A. Direct Democracy  B. Representative Democracy   C. Social Democracy 

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Social Democracy

Exercising complete power over nearly every aspect of human affairs.

• Democratic

• Utopian

• Totalitarian

A government which the power is held by a small, usually self-appointed group

• Republic

• Oligarchy

• Autocracy

The theory about the origins of the state that states that in order to overcome unpleasant conditions, the people agree with one another to create a state.

• Divine Right Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Social Contract Theory

An alliance of independent states.

• Dictatorship

• Confederation

• Colony

The earliest known evidence of government comes from here.

• Rome

• Egypt

• Babylonia

Presented to the Constitutional Convention, it proposed that the Senate would be represented equally among the states no matter the size and the House of Representatives would be based on population.  This resolved the dispute among the small and larger states about fair representation

• Connecticut Compromise

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

The Three-Fifths Compromise disappeared from the Constitution with the adoption of the this Amendment which abolished slavery in 1865.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This state was the only state that did not send delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

• Virginia

• Rhode Island

• Georgia

At the Constitutional Convention, each state would have this many votes regardless of the size of their state or the number of delegates from their state present.

• 1

• 5

• 13