Unit 2 Re-Cap

Choose the statement that correctly describes checks and balances as stated in the United States Constitution.

• The Legislative branch has the power to override a Presidential veto, the Executive branch has the power to veto a bill, and the Judicial branch can declare a law unconstitutional.

• The Legislative branch has the power to override a Presidential veto, the Executive branch can declare a law unconstitutional, and the Judicial branch has the power to veto a bill.

• The Legislative branch has the power to veto a bill, the Executive branch can declare a law unconstitutional, and the Judicial branch has the power to override a Presidential veto.

• The Legislative branch can declare a law unconstitutional, the Executive branch has the power to veto a bill, and the Judicial branch has the power to override a Presidential veto.

Why did the Anti-Federalists insist that the Constitution include a Bill of Rights?

• They wanted to protect the people from a powerful government

• They feared the state governments would interfere with managing the country.

• They feared the central government would enter into a dangerous foreign alliance.

• They wanted to test the amendment process before agreeing to a new form of government.

In the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, what is the meaning of the phrase "We the People"?

• The people express their will through political parties.

• The people express their will by directly creating laws.

• Government receives taxes from the people and exists to support them.

• Government receives its power from the people and exists to serve them.

The painting shows Daniel Shays at the Massachusetts courthouse in 1786.

What weakness of the Articles of Confederation is illustrated in this image?

• The national government had no court system.

• Congress lacked the power to create a uniform currency.

• Congress lacked the power to regulate trade between states.

• The national government was not strong enough to keep order.

Identify a way Judeo-Christian influenced America's constitutional republic.

• Legislative bodies

• Written constitution

• Separation of powers

• Personal responsibility

Read the list of colonial responses.

 Colonists proclaimed the act was unconstitutional.

 Colonists used mob violence to intimidate stamp collectors.

 Colonists raised the issue of no taxation without representation.

Identify the act that instigated these colonial responses.

• Tea Act

• Declaratory Act

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

The statements below are from the Declaration of Independence.

1. 1. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

2. that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

3. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

4. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government

Which statement reflects the principle of the right of resistance to tyrannical governments?

• 1.

• 2.

• 3.

• 4.

The diagram below shows that the colonists formed some of their political views from some historical documents.

Which phrase completes the diagram?

• Separation of powers

• Individual rights

• Self-government/Consent of the governed

• Economic freedom

Which idea was included in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense?

• The United States should be a unitary state.

• The United States should be a model of political independence to the rest of the world.

• The United States should be a direct democracy like Ancient Greece.

• The United States should remain under the control of Great Britain.

Identify the quote from the Declaration of Independence that best displays how the Founding Fathers were influenced by John Locke's theory of natural law.

• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

• He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

• A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act, which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

• He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.