Foundations of Government Test

Which of the following is NOT an essential feature of the State

• Population

• Sovereignty

• Government

• Morality

answer the following question based on the below excerpt:

Which of the following grievances mentioned in the excerpt from the Worcester Address of December 7, 1786, contributed to the rising of the people at that time (Shay's Rebellion)?

"Worcester December 7, 1786. An ADDRESS to the PEOPLE of the several Towns in the County of Hampshire, from the Body now at arms. Gentlemen, We have thought proper to inform you of some of the principal causes of the late risings of the people, and also of their present movement, viz. 1st: The present expensive mode of collecting debts, which by the reason of the great scarcity of cash, will be necessity fill our gaols with unhappy debtors, and thereby render a reputable body of people incapable of being serviceable either to themselves or the community. 2d. The monies raised by impost and excise being appropriated to discharge the interest of governmental securities, and not the foreign debt, when these securities are not subject to taxation. 3d. A suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, by which those persons who have stepped forth to assert and maintain the rights of the people, are liable to be the taken, and conveyed even to the most distant part of the commonwealth, and thereby subject to an unjust punishment. 4th. The unlimited power granted to Justices of the Peace, Serriffs, Deputy-Serriffs and Constables, by the Riot Act, indemnifying them in the prosecution thereof, when perhaps wholly actuated from a principle of revenge, hatred and envy. 5th. be assured, that this body now at arms, dispite the idea of being initiated by British emissaries, which is to strenuously propagated by the enemies of our liberties: We also with the most proper and speedy measures may be taken to discharge both our foreign and domestic debt."

Per Order, DANIEL GRAY, Chairman of a Com. for the above purpose.

• The present expensive mode of collecting debts
• The monies raised by impost and excise being appropriated to discharge the interest of governmental securities, and not the foreign debt
• A suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
• The unlimited power granted to Justices of the Peace, Serriffs, Deputy-Serriffs and Constables, by the Riot Act

A system of government in which a king, queen, or emperor exercises the supreme powers of government

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Republic

A loose union of independent states

• Constitution

• Republic

• Unitary System

• Confederation

As the extended family grew in size, elders became the government of that society.

• Evolution Theory

• Force Theory

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

The 1st document, in the west, to limit the power and the authority of the king. Signed in 1215 CE at Runnymede England.

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• English Law of the Lords

• The Magic Charter

One of the Weaknesses of the Articles of confederation is that

• Each State has a number of votes based on their population

• Each State has executive power

• It takes a unanimous vote to pass a law

• The Supreme court held the power

Which enlightenment philosopher would have written the following?

"Since all rights have been surrendered to the community without reservation, no one has any claim against the group. If any rights were left to individuals and no one was given authority to decide between individual rights and the public good, then each man would try to extend the scope of those rights he had reserved for himself. This situation would mean that a state of nature still existed. All rights must be surrendered; none may be reserved. . . . The heart of the idea of the social contract may be stated simply: Each of us places his person and authority under the supreme direction of the general will: and the group receives each individual as an indivisible part of the whole. . . ."

• John Locke
• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Immanuel Kant

A country in which the territory of both the

nation and the state coincide

• Nationalism

• Bicameralism

• Nation State

• state

The principle of federalism gives government power to--

• the county and local governments

• a strong confederate government

• the national and state governments

• a powerful state government