Unit 2: Government
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| show | Direct Democracy
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| show | Romans
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| show | Enlightenment Era
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| Who developed the idea of the "social contract?" | show 🗑
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| When population is too high for everyone to cast a vote on everything to be decided upon, it’s easier to choose representatives to cast votes for a larger group. This is called ____________________________________________________. | show 🗑
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| show | John Locke
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| show | U.S. Constitution
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| show | Separation of Powers
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| Our Founding Fathers make reference to humans having ________________ in The Declaration of Independence written to the king of England. | show 🗑
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| show | Mayflower Compact
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| Weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation are due to the lack of power in the _______ government. | show 🗑
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| The Articles of Confederation created a national currency problem because it allowed _____________ to print money. | show 🗑
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| One major problem with the Articles of Confederation was due to the federal government not having the ability to____________. | show 🗑
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| The Articles of Confederation created only what branch of government? | show 🗑
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| show | A unanimous vote of yes
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| show | Federalism
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| _________________is the sharing of powers between a strong federal government and weaker state governments. | show 🗑
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| show | Enumerated
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| Powers that belong to the state are called ______________ powers. | show 🗑
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| show | Denied
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| Because the constitution says that it is the federal government’s duty to regulate interstate trade, the regulation of airports allowing the importation and exportation of goods across the United States is a/an ___________ power. | show 🗑
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| Alexander Hamilton felt the federal government had the right to create a national bank. This makes him a/an____________________. | show 🗑
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| Because both the federal and state governments need an income to run government, the ability to tax is a ______________ power. | show 🗑
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| show | Enumerated
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| show | Reserved
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| show | Denied
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| show | representation
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| Today, the legislative branch consists of two houses. The upper house is the Senate with equal representation making __________ states happy. | show 🗑
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| The creation of today’s legislative branch is the work of Connecticut delegate_________________. | show 🗑
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| If two states have similar counts of their population, then they will have a/an __________ number of votes in the Senate and in the House of Representatives. | show 🗑
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| The 3/5 Compromise solved debates by allowing southern states to count part of their population when determining ________________________. | show 🗑
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| The Trade Compromise allowed for individual states to regulate trade within their state. Supporters of this policy are called ________________. | show 🗑
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| Those who favored ratification of the new constitution were _________________. | show 🗑
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| Those that opposed the new constitution called for a ___________________________________________. | show 🗑
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| Each time the Constitution in changed a/an _____________ is added. | show 🗑
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| show | reserved
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| show | the Preamble
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| To promote the general welfare, to ensure domestic tranquility and to provide for the common defense explains the need for _______________________________________________. | show 🗑
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| show | Judicial Branch
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| show | Articles of Confederation
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| show | campaign
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| show | federal and state
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| show | bi-cameral
2-house
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| What is the highest court of the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | population
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| Louisiana has 7 US representatives, Louisiana has 9 members in the federal congress because each state has 2 ____________________. | show 🗑
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| show | pocket
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| To ___________ a bill is to approve it without signing it. | show 🗑
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| If the president vetoes a bill, the ____________ branch can override the veto. | show 🗑
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| show | representative democracy
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| Parliament is a ___________branch of government. | show 🗑
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| show | 4
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| show | taxes
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| show | excise tax
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| A strong federal government and weaker state governments is a system of government known as ____________. | show 🗑
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| The judicial branch ruling a bill unconstitutional is an example of __________________ | show 🗑
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| show | duties
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| show | to ensure domestic tranquility
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| show | 10
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| An example of a ____________group would be an environmentalist. | show 🗑
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| show | boycott
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| When the American colonies refused to purchase tea from England they were ________________. | show 🗑
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| show | compromise
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| show | naturalization process
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| show | ultimate authority
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| . The only political office requiring the person holding it to be born in the US is the ____________. | show 🗑
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| show | 35
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| A request from a local government for higher __________ is typically used to fund public schools. | show 🗑
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| . A senator must be at least 30 and may serve an unlimited number of ________ year terms. | show 🗑
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| show | the rights of the accused
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