PSCI 1101 Exam 1 with All Correct Answers
Declaration of Independence - Answer-statement adopted by congress which announced the new 13 colony nation had succeeded from Great Britain
Unalienable rights - Answer-life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
rights that cannot be taken
Social...
Declaration of Independence - Answer-statement adopted by congress which
announced the new 13 colony nation had succeeded from Great Britain
Unalienable rights - Answer-life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
rights that cannot be taken
Social Contract - Answer-members of a society will abide by and form a governmental
system
Tyranny - Answer-a repressive and arbitrarily cruel regime
Confederation - Answer-a league of independent states that are united only for the
purpose of achieving common goal
Articles of Confederation - Answer-served as nation's first national constitution and
represented an important step in creation of our governmental system.
Established congress as central governing body.
2-7 representatives from each state, only one vote.
Central government had few powers
Shay's Rebellion - Answer-a rebellion of angry farmers lead by Daniel Shays.
farmers who owed money revolted and seized courthouses and disrupted trials
Virginia Plan - Answer-James Madison
Favored large states
Called for a bicameral legislature, a national executive branch elected by the legislature,
a national court system, created by the legislature
The New Jersey Plan - Answer-William Paterson
Favored smaller states
Proposed that congress would be able to regulate trade and impose taxes, each state
would only have one vote, acts of congress would be the supreme law of the land, an
executive office of more than one person would be elected by congress, and the
executive office would appoint a national supreme court
, The Great Compromise - Answer-Roger Sherman
compromised
a plan for a bicameral legislature in which one chamber would be based on population
and the other chamber would represent each state equally.
House of Representatives (lower chamber)- went by state population
The Senate (higher chamber) would have two member from each state
Three- Fifths compromise - Answer-Slaves would be valued as 3/5 of a human, this was
beneficial to southern states with an abundance of slavery.
Slave importation - Answer-Country banned the importation of slaves in 1808.
Commerce Clause - Answer-Article 1, section 8, gives congress power to regulate
commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes
Republicanism - Answer-Make people the basis of power
Direct election of representatives
Double Security - Answer-the power surrendered by the people is first divided between
two distinct governments
Federalism - Answer-the idea that you want a strong federal government
Checks and balances - Answer-a major principle of American government in which each
of the three branches is given the means to check (restrain or balance) the actions of
the others.
Separation of Powers - Answer-the principle of dividing governmental powers among
the legislative, the executive, and the judicial branches of government
Bill of Rights - Answer-The first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution. They list the
freedoms that a citizen can enjoy without infringement by the government.
National Government Under the Articles - Answer-No president
Congress had limited powers
-can't: tax, regulate commerce, settle disputes between states, enforce law, raise a
standing army, defend against internal strife, external threat, pass economic legislation
Preamble - Answer-of the constitution.
Essentially the introduction that outlines the general goals of the framers.
National Government Under the Constitution - Answer-Limited government (Bill of
Rights)
Checks on majority rule
Separation of powers
Checks and balances
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