WorksheetsGovernment Unit 1
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Based on the reading, how did Montesquieu effect the US constitution?
Government is organized into three branches.
President can veto bills
A bill of rights was added to specify individual rights.
Two separated representative bodies must approve all laws.
Which political idea is based on the belief that citizens must be willing to give up some freedoms in exchange for the protection of rights?
Rule by the majority
Social contract
Natural rights
Divine right
Natural law, in the eyes of the founding fathers, should be
agreed upon by the community with no difficulty
followed based on tradition
like divine rights
founded on laws made by the community
Which of the following enlightenment philosophers created the idea for unalienable rights?
Locke
Montesquieu
Moses
Blackstone
Which philosopher thought that without law and a monarchy there would be chaos?
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Montesquieu
Jen-Jacques Rousseau
Fill in the blank........ the unalienable rights in the Declaration of independence include life, liberty, and _____________
Pursuit of Happiness
Property
Justice
Ferderalism
The founding of the United States has traditional roots in Judeo-Christian teachings as well as philosophies developed primarily during the —
Enlightenment
Reformation
Commercial Revolution
Renaissance
Which of the following Founding Fathers is remembered as both a strong supporter of central government as well as the principal author of the U.S. Constitution?
James Madison
George Mason
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
In his service at the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Hamilton argued that the Founders should establish a government characterized by
a strong central authority
a powerful aristocracy
a growing merchant class
a loose confederation of states
Which Founding Father and prominent American legal scholar signed the Declaration of Independence and proposed the Three-Fifths Compromise at the Constitutional Convention?
James Wilson
Alexander Hamilton
Gouverneur Morris
George Mason
The way the 13 colonies implements individual rights is through....
Bill of Rights
Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
