3.1 Quiz

Which of the following is an example of popular sovereignty?

• The opportunity to vote

• Texas and the federal government having the ability to tax

• Congress makes a law and the president signs it into action

• A law is reviewed to make sure it is constitutional

The powers not delegated to the United States by the U.S. Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the ​ (a)   respectively, or to the people.

• States
• Federal Government 
• Congress
• the courts

The powers not delegated to the United States by the U.S. Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

This is an example of which Constitutional principle?

• Capitalism

• Federalism

• Separation of power

• Individual rights

Creating a law, sending it through for a vote in the House of Representatives, the bill moves to the Senate where is is also approved, it is sent to the President to sign into law after being reviewed by the Supreme Court. This is an example of which Constitutional Principle?

• the law

• Federalism

• Checks and Balances

• Separation of Power

Magna Carta, Virginia House of Burgesses, Massachusetts Town Meetings and philosophers like John Locke and Barron de Montesquieu are all...

• ideas of socialism

• Mercantilist theories

• contributors to American Literature

• Influences on the U.S. Contitution

Mach the principle to the phrase it describes

• Individual rights

• The Judicial, Executive and Legislative branches

• Separation of Power

• the Bill of Rights

• Republicanism

• the president nominates federal judges and congress approves them

• Federalism

• Power is divided between the national and state governments

• Checks and balances

• Voting for Congressmen to carry out the will of the people

What was considered a success of the Articles of Confederation?

• The Northwest Ordinance which made a plan to bring states into the union

• No power to tax from the federal government

• the creating of a national courts system

• Gaining foreign allies like Britain and France

Why did the Constitutional Convention create a bicameral legislature?

• so states could maintain their sovereignty

• because 3 was too many

• to create a system of laws

• to reach a compromise on representation in congress for large and small states

How large and small states are represented in congress was settled by which Constitutional compromise?

• 3/5 Compromise

• The Great Compromise

• The Electoral College

• The Compromise of 1787

What were some of the main contributions of philosophers like Montesquieu and Locke as well as documents like the Magna Carta, and the English Bill of Rights?

• The political ideals of the United States

• Founding the economic system of the colonies

• Establishing religious freedom in the U.S.