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WorksheetsChapter 3, 4, 5 Political Science
Total questions: 71
Worksheet time: 36mins
____________is an institutional arrangement that creates ________ relatively _____________ levels of government, each possessing the capacity to act ___________ on behalf of the people with authority granted to it by the national
Federalism, two, autonomous, directly, constitution
Federalism, one, autonomous, directly, declaration of independence
Confederation, two, autonomous, directly, constitution
Confederation, one, autonomous, directly, declaration of independence
Although Federalism vary in design, they have five structural characteristics. They all include all of the following except
two levels of government
written constitution that are difficult to change
formally allocate legislative, judicial, and executive authority to the two levels of government
national court systems resolve disputes between levels and departments of government
sub national government are not represented in the upper house of the national legislature
In contrast to federalism, a ______________ makes sub national governments dependent on the ________________ government where significant authority is concentrated.
Federation, State
Federation, national
Confederation, State
Unitary System, national
It is when power of government has been gradually ________________ through a process of __________________
decentralized, devolution
centralized, elasticity
centralized, devolution
decentralized, elasticity
In a ___________________ system authority is concentrated in the _______________ government. In _____________ system authority is divided between ___________ and ___________ governments. _____________ authority is concentrated in ________.
Unitary, National Government, Federation, central and state, Confederation, states
Federation, National Government, Unitary, central and national, Confederation, states
Confederation, National Government, Federation, central and state, Unitary, states
Unitary, National Government, Federation, central and state, Confederation, national government
______________ define the jurisdictional boundaries within which the federal government has authority such as raise and support armies and declare war.
Enumerated powers
Elastic clause
Reserve Powers
Concurrent Powers
Enables Congress " to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying" out its constitutional responsibilities
Elastic Clause
Enumerated Clause
Reserved Clause
Concurrent Clause
This empowered the federal government to regulate the interstate economic transactions
commerce clause
reserved powers
necessary and proper clause
enumerated powers
___________________"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people". This Amendment affirmed it ___________________.
Enumerated Powers, 9th Amendment
Enumerated Powers, 10th Amendment
Reserved Powers, 10th Amendment
Reserved Powers, 6th Amendment
__________ a legislative action declaring someone guilty without trial. ___________ a law which criminalizes an act retroactively.
Bill of attainder, Ex post facto law
Ex post facto law, Bill of attainder
Writ of habeas corpus, Bill of attainder
Ex post facto law, Bill of attainder
______________This was also called the comity clause. These part of the provisions that govern ______________ relations. It required the states to accept court decisions, contracts, and public deeds from other states.
Full faith and credit clause, national relations
Privileges and immunities, state to state
Full faith and credit clause, state to state
Privileges and immunities, national relations
The __________ of Article IV asserted that state are prohibited from discriminating against out-of-staters by denying them such guarantees as access to courts, legal protection, and property.
full faith and credit clause
ex post facto law
privileges and immunities clause
writ of habeas corpus
The majority of the federal government revenue comes from_________ as opposed to state government revenue where it comes primarily from _____________ and __________.
Individual income tax, corporate tax and payroll tax
Individual income tax, sales tax and individual income tax
Corporate tax, individual tax and excise tax
Corporate tax, sales tax and excise tax
The following are major expenditures to the federal budge except
Defense
Social security
Medicare, Medicaid
Education
______________ is when both levels of government coordinate their actions to solve national problems. It eroded the _____________ boundaries between _________________ and ______________ government, leading to blending of layers as in a ______________ cake.
Cooperative, judicial, state and federal, marble
Cooperative, jurisdictional, state and federal, Layer
Cooperative, jurisdictional , national and federal, marble
Cooperative, jurisdictional, state and federal, marble
____________ are federal transfers formulated to limit state discretion while ______________ come with less stringent federal administration conditions and provide flexibility.
Categorical grants, Block grants
Block grants, Categorical Grants
unfunded mandates, Block Grants
Categorical grants, Unfunded mandates
A dynamic in which state compete to attract business by lowering taxes, regulations, often to workers' detriment
race to the bottom
devolution
creeping categorization
bill of attainder
___________ are limitations on government power, intended to protect freedom that government may not legally intrude while ________________ are guarantees that government officials will treat people equally and that decisions will be made on the basis of merit rather than race, gender, or other personal characteristics.
Civil Rights, Civil liberties
Civil liberties, Civil Rights
Civil obedience, Civil liberties
Civil Rights, Civil service
The ____________________________ expressed the colonist's belief that they had certain _________________ or natural rights that no ruler had the power or authority to deny his or her subjects.
Constitution, inalienable
Declaration of Independence, inalienable
Articles of Confederation, alienable
Virginia Plan, alienable
Which was not constitutional limit on Congress under Article I Section 9?
Bill of attainder
Ex post facto laws
Writ of habeas corpus
Selective Incorporation
The Supreme Court ruled in Ex Parte Milligan and Ex Parte Quirin. These ruling dealt with what limitation on Congress
Bill of attainder
Prohibiting ex post facto laws
Writ of habeas corpus
Search and Seizure
Federalist believed that the constitution did not need __________ and that the states would add it to their constitution. The Anti-Federalist that provisions such as the _____________ would give Congress power to legislate beyond the limited ones.
Preamble, commerce clause
Amendment 7, elasticity clause
Bill of Rights, commerce clause
Preamble, elasticity clause
Bill of Rights, elasticity clause
The ____________ Amendment guaranteed Right to freedom of religion and speech; right to _____________ and __________ the government for redress of grievances.
1st, unreasonable search and petition
1st, assemble, petition
1st, bear arms and petition
1st, petition, assemble
The __________ amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear ____________ to maintain ______________________.
3rd, arms, a well-regulated militia
2nd, arms, individuals homes and property
2nd, arms, a well-regulated military
2nd, arms, a well-regulated militia
All of the following are rights of the accused except
4th
5th
6th
9th
After the 13th Amendment passed, state governments---particularly those of in the former Confederacy began to pass ___________ that restricted the rights of former slaves and effectively regulated them to second class citizens
black codes
anti-conservative
anti-south regulations
progressive laws
Which of the following was not part of the 14th Amendment
ensure that states treated citizens of other states the same as their own citizens
echoes the privileges and immunities clause
nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
the power not delegated to the US by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to States respectfully, or to the people
This concept deals with the Constitution effectively inserting part of the Bill of Rights into state laws and constitution , even though it doesn't do so explicitly.
due process clause
selective incorporation
establishment clause
conscientious objector
All of the following deal with freedom of religion clause in the constitution except
establishment clause
free exercise clause
conscientious objector
Lemon test
coverture
Which of the following is part of The Lemon test
The action or law must lead to excessive government entanglement with religion
The action or law can either inhibit or advance religious practice
The action or law must be of secular purpose
There must be some non-religious justification for the law
_________ limits the ability of the government to control or restrict religious practices.___________ prohibits congress from creating or promoting a state-sponsored religion.
Free Exercise Clause, Establishment Clause
Establishment Clause, Blue Law
Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause
Conscientious Objector, Blue Law
Supreme Court Case that decided that burning the flag was a from of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment
Near v. Minnesota
Lemon v. Kurtzman
Roe v. Wade
Texas v. Johnson
This Supreme Court Ruled that encouraging young men to dodge the draft could be imprisoned for doing so, arguing that recommending that people disobey that law was tantamount "falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a "clear and present danger" to public order
Schenck v. United States
Texas v. Johnson
Lemon v. Kurtzman
Tinker v. Des Moines
Which of the following are not a form of symbolic speech
taking a knee during the national anthem
wearing clothing like an armband that carried a political symbol
raising a fist in the air
selective incorporation speech
The right of freedom of speech is not absolute; which is not considered a restriction
it is the incitement of a criminal act
it is the defamation of character
it is viewed as obscenity
restriction of the taking clause
All of the following are part of the Miller Test except
whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest
Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law
whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, political, or scientific value
whether the work, taken as a whole, does lack serious literary, political, or scientific value
Which Supreme Court cases din not deal with restrictions on speech
Tinker v. Des Moines
Texas v. Johnson
Schenck v United States
Lemon v. Kurtzman
_________ is a legal standard for determining if viewing of property is constitutional.___________ is a legal document, signed by a judge, allowing police to view a property while
probable cause, exclusionary rule
search warrant, probable cause
probable cause, search warrant
search warrant, exclusionary rule
_____________ court case established the exclusionary rule while _____________ court case that dealt with symbolic speech in schools
Mapp v. Ohio, Rove v. Wade
Roe v. Wade, Texas v. Johnson
Mapp v. Ohio,Tinker v. Demoines
Mapp v. Ohio, Texas v. Johnson
The 5th Amendment includes all except
Required grand jury except in cases arising in the land or naval forces
prohibited double jeopardy
protected against self-incrimination
due process and eminent domain
being deprived of life, liberty, or property
Court case whereby suspect are required to be informed of their most important rights, including the right against self-incrimination, before being interrogated in policy custody
Miranda v. Arizona
Tinker v. Demoise
Roe v. Wade
Texas v. Johnson
The sixth amendment includes all of the following except
right of the accuse to have representation
speedy trial
impartial injury
confront the witness
double jeopardy
Court case that ruled that anyone that is accused of a serious crime was entitled to the assistance of an attorney, even if they cannot afford one, as part of the general due process right to a fair trial
Gideon v. Wainwright
Miranda v. Arizona
Texas v. Johnson
Schenck v. United States
Mapp v. Ohio
Which amendment deals with excessive ball and cruel and unusual punishment
6th Amendment
8th Amendment
9th Amendment
5th Amendment
These two amendments in the bill of rights focus on power rather than rights due to the worries of the framers in listing all freedoms and rights
8th and 9th
10th and 8th
9th and 10th
7th and 8th
The right to privacy was established in which court case
Griswold v. Connecticut
Gideon v. Wainwright
Miranda v. Arizona
Roe v. Wade
In the Roe v. Wade case, the Supreme court accepted the argument of _____________ but changed to ______________ which allowed restrictions prior to viability that are not "substantial obstacles to women seeking abortion.
trimesters, undue burden test
undue burden, trimesters
life is when a child is born, trimesters
trimesters, life is when a child is born
What category of discriminatory would not allowing the blind to drive be used by the government
rational basis test
intermediate scrutiny
strict scrutiny
personal impermanent test
In determining if a government law should be allowed to discriminate again individuals, the Supreme Court will allow use all of the following criteria except
rational basis test
intermediate scrutiny
strict scrutiny
affirmative action test
_________________ is based on programs and policies designed to benefit members of groups historically subject to discrimination.
Affirmative Action
Reverse Discrimination
Strict Scrutiny
Rational programs
Supreme Court case that stated a former slave had no legal right to sue for his freedom at all because blacks (whether free or slave) were not and could not become US Citizens.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Morgan v. Virginia
Shelley v. Kraemer
Brown v. Board of Education
These were all forms of disenfranchisement except
literacy test
grandfather clause
White primary
affirmative action
Court case that created the concept of separate but equal clause and allowed segregation to continue
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Shelley v. Kraemer
Loving v. Virginia
The Supreme Court unanimously overturned it decision in Plessy v Ferguson as it pertained to public education, stating that a separate but equal education was a logical impossibility.
Harper v. Virginia Board
Shelley v. Kraemer
Loving v. Virginia
Brown v. Board of Education
Segregation mandated by law
de jure segregation
de facto segregation
direct action segregation
coverture
A form of segregation that results from the choices of individuals to live in segregated communities without actions or support
de jure segregation
de facto segregation
deliberate segregation
planned segregation
Strategies of nonviolent resistance ______________ which was utilized first by___________________
Direct action, Martin Luther King
Civil Disobedience, Martin Luther King
Direct action, Mahatma Gandhi
Civil Disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi
The 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march was an important milestone in the civil rights movement because it
Vividly illustrated the continued
a
b
c
Elizabeth Candy Stanton and Lucretia Mott called for
women's rights convention
slavery to be abolished
liquor to be illegal
right for Native Americans
Feminist are______________________________. Examples are
advocates for women's suffrage, Elizabeth Blackwell, Susan B Anthony
Advocates for freeing slavery, Susan B Anthony, Cathy Williams, Amelia Blooomer
women who opposed voting rights, Elizabeth Blackwell, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Bloomer
advocates for minority rights, Blackwell, Williams, Wollstonecraft
______________ refers to native speakers of Spanish. _________ refers to people who come from or whose ancestors come from, Latin America. ___________ refers to the pride of young Mexican American civil rights activist who stressed pride in their hybrid Spanish-Native American culture identity.
Chicano, Hispanic, Latino
Latino, Hispanic, Chicano
Bracero, Latino, Hispanic
Hispanic, Latino, Chicano
Which Supreme Court case dealt with a conservative Christian company that did not their health-care plan to pay for contraception because it was against their religious beliefs. The Supreme Court ruled ____________ the company.
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Store, in favor
Stonewall v. Pepsi, against
Burnwell v. Hobby Lobby Store, against
Stonewall v. Pepsi, in favor
In 1973, member of the _______________________ a more radical group occupied __________.
American Indian Movement (AIM), Capital
Alaska Native Claim, Alcatraz
American Indian Movement (AIM), Alcatraz
Which court cases held that the segregation o Mexican and Mexican American students into separate schools was uncostitutional
Mendez v. Westminster
Joy v. US
Plessy v. Fuerguson
Brown v. Board of Education
A bar in Greenwich Village, New York, where the modern Gay Pride movement began after rioters protested the police treatment of the LGBT community there
Stonewall Inn
Trail of Tears
Burwell Bar
none of the above
The proposed amendment to the constitution that would prohibited all discrimination based on sex
Equal Rights Amendment
Same sex Amendment
Women's Right Amendment
AIM Amendment
Korematsu v US upheld the actions of the government as necessary precaution in a time of war
True
False
