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GOVT 200 Exam #3characteristics of a good constitution 1. Stability and Continuity (Predictability) 2. Limiting and Dividing Power 3. Permanent Arrangement for the Selection of Representative Public Officials 4. Accountability to the People Roman political concepts 1. Republicanism 2. Political Virtue 3. Checks and Balances Republicanism A philosophy of limited government with elected representatives serving at the will of the people. The government is based on the consent of...

GOVT 200 Quiz 3The American system of federalism divides political power between how many levels of government? 2 According to the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, all powers not specifically given to the federal government are granted to whom? The states The States have certain obligations to the Federal government and to each other, and the Federal government has certain obligations to the States. Most of these obligations are found in which Article of the U.S. Constituti...

GOVT 200 - Ferdon Exam 7Federalism, Separation of Powers, and Rule of Law - correct answer What are the three unwritten concepts essential to the meaning and purpose of the Constitution? Federalism - correct answer What is a government in which political authority is divided between national and regional government? State governments - correct answer Which governments carry on activities that most directly affect its citizens? United States - correct answer What was the earliest federal...

GOVT 200 - Ferdon Exam 7Federalism, Separation of Powers, and Rule of Law - correct answer What are the three unwritten concepts essential to the meaning and purpose of the Constitution? Federalism - correct answer What is a government in which political authority is divided between national and regional government? State governments - correct answer Which governments carry on activities that most directly affect its citizens? United States - correct answer What was the earliest federal...

GOVT 200 Exam 1Define a worldview: - correct answer A worldview is a philosophy of life, which attempts to address and answer the grand questions of life to direct man A worldview has three components: - correct answer Primary questions: cosmological and anthropological 4 subsidiary questions: ontological, epistemological, axiological, and teleological What are the primary questions? - correct answer Cosmological and anthropological questions What is the origin, nature and destiny of t...

GOVT 200 - Ferdon Exam 6individual self-government - correct answer What is the first level of human jurisdiction? We are responsible for governing ourselves - correct answer What exactly is meant by the phrase "self-government"? If government becomes total, then government becomes sovereign and people lose their self-government - correct answer Why is the question of jurisdiction not solely a division of authority and power between God and civil government? - correct answer What is ...

GOVT 200 Exam 1 Define a worldview: - correct answer A worldview is a philosophy of life, which attempts to address and answer the grand questions of life to direct man A worldview has three components: - correct answer Primary questions: cosmological and anthropological 4 subsidiary questions: ontological, epistemological, axiological, and teleological What are the primary questions? - correct answer Cosmological and anthropological questions What is the origin, nature and destiny of...

GOVT 200 - Ferdon Exam 6individual self-government - correct answer What is the first level of human jurisdiction? We are responsible for governing ourselves - correct answer What exactly is meant by the phrase "self-government"? If government becomes total, then government becomes sovereign and people lose their self-government - correct answer Why is the question of jurisdiction not solely a division of authority and power between God and civil government? - correct answer What is ...

GOVT 200 Quiz 2In 1885, which British noble, wrote in his book Popular Government that "the American constitution is distinctively English?" - correct answer Sir Henry Maine There are a number of important differences between the English and American constitutions. As we've discussed in class the English constitution is not a written constitution - meaning it is not contained in any single document like the American constitution in 1787. The English constitution contains three distinct cha...

GOVT 200 Exam #3characteristics of a good constitution 1. Stability and Continuity (Predictability) 2. Limiting and Dividing Power 3. Permanent Arrangement for the Selection of Representative Public Officials 4. Accountability to the People Roman political concepts 1. Republicanism 2. Political Virtue 3. Checks and Balances Republicanism A philosophy of limited government with elected representatives serving at the will of the people. The government is based on the consent of...