WorksheetsGovernment Final
Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 35mins
The Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights were both significant in that they
Gave more power to the king
Ended the two English Civil Wars
Limited the power of the king and ensured the rights of the people by strengthening Parliament
Established democracies in the American colonies
This is the idea that people surrender some of their power to the state in exchange for some form of protection by the state.
Consensus
Sovereignty
Social Contract
Limited Government
This is the concept that governments receive their permission to govern from the people themselves.
Consent of the governed
Limited Government
Consensus
Sovereignty
This French Enlightenment thinker believed that governmental power should be separated into separate branches and that those branches should check and balance the power of each other.
John Locke
Niccolo Machiavelli
Jean Jaques Rousseau
Baron de Montesquieu
This term refers to political authority being granted by law or by state or national constitution.
Power
Authority
Legitimacy
Sovereignty
The Declaration of Independence was based largely on the ideas of
Aristotle
King George III
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke believed that:
An absolute monarchy is the best form of government
Government is created through a social contract
Government should protect natural rights
People forfeit their natural rights when entering into a social contract
According to the authors of the Declaration of Independence, the power of the government is derived from what?
Those entrusted by the people as their representatives
The monarch
A supreme deity
The permission of those governed
John Locke believed that the ultimate role of government is the protection of:
Privileges
The monarchy
Natural Rights
Safety
This is the idea that kings receive their power from God and are accountable only to God.
Divine Right
Tabula Rasa
Consent of the Governed
Social Contract
Which of the following documents did NOT influence the ideas of the founders of the United States?
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Gettysburg Address
Twelve Tables of Roman Law
A republic is a representative government that has a chief of state who is not a:
Monarch
Premier
Prime minister
None of the above
When either the House or the Senate passes a bill, where does it go next?
The Supreme Court
The Federal Reserve
The other chamber
The president
When a bill passes in both the House and the Senate in the same form, where does it go next?
The president
The Supreme Court
The other chamber
The states
This compromise was made in order to satisfy southern states that wanted to include their slave population for representation purposes in Congress.
Three-Fifths Compromise
Two-Thirds Compromise
Connecticut Compromise
Albany Compromise
The Preamble of the Constitution states that the American government begins with whom?
The people
The king
The president
God
Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the Preamble as a purpose for which the Constitution was written?
Promote the general welfare
To defend the king
To establish justice
To ensure domestic tranquility
This is officially the way that the President of the United States is chosen.
Popular vote
Vote by state legislatures
Electoral College
Supreme Court decision
Federal judges are appointed by
The Senate
The House
The voters
The president
This article of the Constitution establishes the legislative branch.
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Article 4
What power does the legislative branch have in order to remove the president and judges from office?
Veto
Petition
Impeachment
Review of powers
Which article of the Constitution addresses the executive branch?
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Article 4
This is the principle by which powers and duties are divided among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
Federal bureaucracy
Checks and balances
Separation of powers
Judicial review
A state’s number of representatives in the House is determined by this count of the population every ten years.
Census
Gerrymander
Constituency
Apportionment
Which of the following allows for the powers of Congress to stretch so that it can perform its expressed constitutional powers?
Establishment clause
Supremacy clause
Elastic clause
Commerce clause
This section of the Constitution contains the changes or additions to the Constitution.
Amendments
Supremacy clause
Articles
Preamble
Which of the following was NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
No power to tax
Required unanimous agreement from states to amend
Only one branch of government
No military
What name was given to those who supported the adoption of the Constitution?
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Democratic-Republicans
Whigs
What was the only branch of government on the national level under the Articles of Confederation?
Local
Judicial
Legislative
Executive
Which plan for representation in Congress called for a bicameral legislature with representation based on population?
Virginia Plan
Connecticut Plan
Georgia Plan
New Jersey Plan
This is a government where power is divided between the national and state levels.
Unitary System
Democratic System
Anarchy
Federal System
From where must revenue bills originate?
The Supreme Court
The Senate
The House
The president
What is the minimum age for a person to be elected president?
30
35
40
45
The head of the executive departments are collectively known as the
Federal Office of the Executive
Cabinet
Office of Management and Budget
Postal Service
Congress passed this law in 1973 in order to limit the president’s ability to deploy troops without congressional approval.
Oath of Office Act
War Powers Act
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
UN Resolution Act
The attack on September 11, 2001, prompted the creation of what new executive department?
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Department of the Interior
Central Intelligence Agency
Each of the following were done by executive orders EXCEPT:
Internment of Japanese Americans during WWII
Desegregation of the American military
Emancipation Proclamation
Giving women the right to vote
Which of the following presidents were impeached by not removed from office?
Andrew Johnson
Bill Clinton
Donald Trump
All of the above
The 22nd Amendment was passed after the death of this president in order to limit the number of years that a president could serve.
Franklin Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
Ronald Reagan
How is a president chosen when none of the candidates receives a majority of the electoral college vote?
The election is ruled null and void and Congress appoints a new president.
The House chooses a new president by a majority vote of its state delegations.
There is a national runoff election between the two candidates with the greatest number of electoral votes.
The United States Supreme Court directly elects the president.
How are the cabinet secretaries and the attorney general selected?
The president usually retains his predecessor’s cabinet secretaries and attorney general
The president appoints cabinet secretaries and the attorney general for fixed fourteen-year terms
The president appoints cabinet secretaries and the attorney general, subject to Senate confirmation, and they serve at his will
The president appoints cabinet secretaries and they must resign at the end of the presidential term
Who exercises control over the bureaucracy?
The executive branch controls the bureaucracy by appointing all federal employees
The judicial branch controls the bureaucracy by reviewing regulations to make sure they are constitutional before they go into effect
Both Congress and the executive branch have controls over the bureaucracy
Congress controls the bureaucracy because it has the power to fire agency heads after oversight hearings and for cause
What is the primary function of the executive departments?
To follow Congress’s orders
To follow electoral mandates
To follow the president’s orders
To implement policies made by the president, Congress, and the courts
Who is next in line of succession after the vice president?
The secretary of State
The president pro tem
The speaker of the House
The Senate majority leader
The president’s annual message to Congress is also called the
Executive Summary
Budget message
Inauguration address
State of the Union
A president issuing pardons just before he leaves office
Is legal
Violates the Constitution
Must have pardons ratified by Congress
Has been declared unconstitutional
The __________ System is America’s central bank.
Postal Service
Federal Reserve
Cabinet
Interstate
The Pendleton Civil Service Act is significant because
It instituted an affirmative action policy for hiring and promoting federal bureaucrats
It gave the president more control over federal agencies
It reduced the number of federal civil servants working outside of Washington, D.C.
It created the federal civil service and prescribed that the hiring of civil servants be based on merit
The executive department that oversees our relations with other countries is the __________ Department.
State
Defense
Homeland Security
Interior
Bureaucracies are often criticized as being undemocratic because
They are not directly accountable to the people
They utilize a merit system for hiring
Citizens tend to have low opinions of them
They are overly influenced by campaign contributions
This is the highest court in the United States and was the only court officially created in Article III of the Constitution.
Senate
Appeals courts
State courts
Supreme Court
Asking a higher court to review the decision of a lower court is called a(n)
Civil trial
Litigation
Judicial review
Appeal
The ability of the Supreme Court to decide if a law is unconstitutional is called
Judicial review
Panel trial
Appellate decision
Remand
This court case established that a suspect must be informed of their rights at the time of arrest.
Miranda v. Arizona
Roe v. Wade
Gideon v. Wainwright
Marbury v. Madison
This landmark court case officially ended the “separate but equal” doctrine of segregation that was established by Plessy v. Ferguson.
Roe v. Wade
Gideon v. Wainwright
Dredd Scott v. Sanford
Brown v. Board of Education
This term refers to the authority of a certain court to interpret and administer the law in a given case.
Jurisdiction
Precedent
Majority Opinion
Executive privilege
This is an earlier court decision that guides judges’ decisions in later cases.
Jurisdiction
Precedent
Precinct
Preamble
The decision in this case gave the Supreme Court the power of judicial review.
Slaughterhouse Case
McCulloch v. Maryland
Marbury v. Madison
Roe v. Wade
How many justices serve on the Supreme Court?
5
7
9
12
These courts get their power from state constitutions and laws.
Constitutional courts
Concurrent courts
State courts
Federal courts
Which freedom is NOT protected under the First Amendment?
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of Assembly
Freedom of Education
The clause of the First Amendment that protects you from the government telling you what you can/cannot believe in
Establishment
Free Exercise
Free Speech
Freedom to assemble
Amendment 2
Freedom from self-incrimination
Right to a jury in a civil court cases
Power unlisted in the constitution are reserved for the states/people
Right to bear arms
Amendment 4
Freedom from unreasonable search and seizure
Freedom from self-incrimination
Right to a speedy trial and impartial jury
Rights unlisted in the constitution are still protected
Amendment 10
Freedom from self-incrimination
Right to a jury in a civil court cases
Power unlisted in the constitution are reserved for the states/people
Right to bear arms
