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3.3 Apply the Principles of Government

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This photograph BEST represents which “Basic Principle of Government”?

a)

Checks and Balances

b)

Individual Rights

c)

Federalism

d)

Representative Democracy

e)

Separation of Powers

2.

This CNN News report BEST exemplifies which “Basic Principle of Government”?

a)

Federalism

b)

Limited Government

c)

Separation of Powers

d)

Popular Sovereignty

e)

Representative Democracy

3.

This photograph BEST represents which “Basic Principle of Government”?

a)

Checks and Balances

b)

Individual Rights

c)

Representative Democracy

d)

Limited Government

e)

Separation of Powers

4.

This piece from a 2008 “New York Times” article BEST represents which of the following “Basic Principles of Government”?

a)

Checks and Balances

b)

Federalism

c)

Individual Rights

d)

Limited Government

e)

Representative Democracy

5.

This report comes from an article by the New York Times. Because of one particular “Principle of Government”, debates such as represented in the NY Times article may always be present in our country. Name the Principle of Government.

a)

Popular Sovereignty

b)

Federalism

c)

Representative Democracy

d)

Separation of Powers

e)

Limited Government

6.

What is another name for Republicanism?

a)

Individual Rights

b)

Checks and Balances

c)

Representative Democracy

d)

Separation of Powers

e)

Limited Government

7.

The state of Texas had standing to sue the US President’s administration because it had been potentially injured by immigration enforcement decisions. In November 2015, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s injunction that blocked President Obama’s executive orders on immigration from taking effect.

a)

Executive Branch

b)

Judicial Branch

c)

Legislative Branch

8.

By the authority vested in me as President, by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

There is hereby established a Council for Community Solutions (Council), led by two Co-Chairs.

a)

Executive Branch

b)

Judicial Branch

c)

Legislative Branch

9.

S. 2873: ECHO Act

Scheduled for the Floor on November 29, 2016


A Bill to require studies and reports examining the use of, and opportunities to use, technology-enabled collaborative learning to improve programs of the Department of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes.

a)

Executive Branch

b)

Judicial Branch

c)

Legislative Branch

10.

US News and World Report: (Ken Walsh – 2018)


President Andrew Johnson, on Christmas Day 1868, granted full pardons and amnesty to soldiers who were charged in Court for treason in the Civil War.


Critics say President Johnson was being too lenient with traitors, but Johnson argued that it was time for a massive gesture of reconciliation.

a)

Executive Branch

b)

Judicial Branch

c)

Legislative Branch

11.

House passes SC Rep. Joe Cunningham’s bill to

ban offshore drilling, seismic testing:

By Caitlin Byrd (Post and Courier) Sep 11, 2019


A Bill banning offshore drilling and seismic testing off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts passed the House of

Representatives Wednesday — but mainly along party lines as only a handful of Republicans signed on.


The bipartisan Coastal Marine and Economies Protection Act calls for a permanent and complete moratorium on offshore drilling along the nation’s eastern and western coasts.

a)

Executive Branch

b)

Judicial Branch

c)

Legislative Branch