A) The French Revolution B) The Scottish Enlightenment C) The Roman Republic D) The Glorious Revolution
A) Montesquieu B) David Hume C) John Locke D) Thomas Hobbes
A) 1688 B) 1823 C) 1760 D) 1778
A) They should be appointed for life B) They should receive no salary C) They should control the judiciary D) They must belong to the upper class
A) The lower class B) The nobility C) Wealthy merchants D) Foreign diplomats
A) Montesquieu B) John Locke C) David Hume D) Polybius
A) Thomas Hobbes B) Alexander Hamilton C) James Madison D) Benjamin Franklin
A) The Spirit of Law B) Federalist No. 78 C) Two Treatises of Government D) Federalist No. 47
A) To accumulate wealth for the state B) To serve the people by protecting their rights C) To expand the nation's territory D) To enforce religious uniformity
A) Equality, fraternity, and liberty B) Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness C) Life, liberty, and property D) Freedom of speech, press, and religion
A) Federalist No. 47 B) Federalist No. 10 C) Federalist No. 51 D) Federalist No. 78
A) Federalist No. 47 B) Federalist No. 84 C) Federalist No. 10 D) Federalist No. 78
A) Locke, Hamilton, and Jay B) Thomas Jefferson, Adams, and Mason C) Benjamin Franklin, Hobbes, and Hume D) Washington, Madison, and Franklin
A) Balanced forces pushing against each other B) Elimination of the legislative branch C) Absolute rule by the lower class D) A powerful central executive
A) Aristotle B) Polybius C) Plato D) Cicero
A) Federalist Papers B) The Spirit of Law C) The Social Contract D) Two Treatises of Government
A) Military, economic, and social B) Monarchical, aristocratic, and democratic C) Federal, state, and local D) Legislative, executive, and judicial
A) To eliminate the need for elections B) To concentrate power in the executive branch C) To ensure judges create laws D) The even distribution of authority among the several branches
A) Supreme Court Justices B) State Governors C) Members of Congress D) The President
A) Myers v. United States B) Green v. Biddle C) United States v. Wood D) Nixon v. Administrator of General Services
A) June 19, 1787 B) May 31, 1787 C) May 25, 1787 D) May 14, 1787
A) June 13, 1787 B) May 25, 1787 C) June 19, 1787 D) May 14, 1787
A) Virginia B) Rhode Island C) Pennsylvania D) New Jersey
A) 55 B) 12 C) 7 D) 74
A) 74 B) 12 C) 7 D) 55
A) Council of Revision B) Federalist No. 78 C) Large State Plan D) New Jersey Plan
A) The Judicial Review Act B) The Articles of Confederation C) The New Jersey Plan D) The Virginia Plan
A) Bicameral Congress elected on a proportional basis B) Unicameral Congress where all states had one vote C) Bicameral Congress with equal state representation D) Unicameral Congress elected on a proportional basis
A) Montesquieu B) William Blackstone C) John Locke D) Edward Coke
A) Edmund Burke B) John Locke C) William Blackstone D) Edward Coke
A) The most highly populated states B) The less-populous states C) States that refused to participate D) States with unicameral legislatures
A) A council of revision B) A bicameral Congress elected on a proportional basis C) A unicameral Congress where all states had one vote D) A bicameral Congress with appointed members
A) The less-populous states B) States proposing a bicameral legislature C) States with large delegations D) The most highly populated states
A) English Whigs such as Edmund Burke B) Montesquieu C) John Locke D) Edward Coke
A) William Blackstone B) Alexander Hamilton C) Oliver Ellsworth D) John Locke
A) May 25 B) June 19 C) May 31 D) June 13
A) June 19 B) May 31 C) June 13 D) May 14
A) June 13, 1787 B) May 31, 1787 C) June 19, 1787 D) May 25, 1787
A) Twelve B) Three C) Seven D) One
A) Twelve B) Seven C) Three D) One
A) One B) Three C) Twelve D) Seven
A) Wilson B) Hamilton C) Marshall D) Madison
A) Ellsworth B) Burke C) Wilson D) Hamilton
A) Pennsylvania B) New York C) Connecticut D) Virginia
A) Once B) Four times C) Three times D) Twice
A) A unanimous state vote B) A council of revision C) A presidential veto with congressional override D) A legislative veto with judicial override
A) Edmund Burke B) Oliver Ellsworth C) John Marshall D) James Wilson
A) John Marshall B) Oliver Ellsworth C) Alexander Hamilton D) James Wilson
A) With the English Whigs B) With the state governors C) With judges D) With the executive
A) March 4, 1789 B) March 1, 1781 C) September 17, 1787 D) May 25, 1787
A) Federalism B) Separation of powers C) The Bill of Rights D) Reconstruction
A) Sole authority to regulate all state laws B) Extensive taxing and enforcement powers C) Little power D) Absolute monarchical power
A) 100-man army B) 50,000-man army C) 625-man army D) 10,000-man army
A) Spain B) Canada C) Britain D) France
A) September 1786 B) February 1787 C) March 1781 D) August 1787
A) Connecticut B) New York C) Georgia D) Massachusetts
A) Stono Rebellion B) Bacon's Rebellion C) Whiskey Rebellion D) Shays' Rebellion
A) James Madison B) Rufus King C) General George Washington D) General Benjamin Lincoln
A) The Great Compromise B) The Three-Fifths Compromise C) The Southern Accommodation D) The Committee of Detail
A) Industrial manufacturing B) Paid immigrant labor C) Slave labor D) Foreign trade tariffs
A) 20 years B) 10 years C) 80 years D) 50 years
A) Two-thirds B) Three-fifths C) One-quarter D) One-half
A) Rufus King B) Nathaniel Gorham C) Alexander Hamilton D) Gouverneur Morris
A) Twenty-three B) Seven C) Thirty-nine D) Twelve
A) John Rutledge B) James Madison C) Edmund Randolph D) Alexander Hamilton
A) Gouverneur Morris B) Benjamin Franklin C) James Madison D) Alexander Hamilton
A) Gouverneur Morris B) Benjamin Franklin C) Alexander Hamilton D) Jacob Shallus
A) Twenty-three B) Twelve C) Thirty-nine D) Eleven
A) Thirteen B) Nine C) Eleven D) Twelve
A) By a narrow majority B) A two-thirds majority C) They rejected it D) Unanimously
A) Article III B) Article V C) Article I D) Article VII
A) A two-thirds majority B) A three-fourths majority C) A simple majority D) Unanimous
A) Confederates B) Federalists C) Anti-Federalists D) Republicans
A) Loyalists B) Nationalists C) Anti-Federalists D) Federalists
A) New York B) New Jersey C) Pennsylvania D) Delaware
A) 46-23 B) 30-0 C) 50-10 D) 13-0
A) 50-25 B) 30-0 C) 46-23 D) 10-5
A) More land B) A trade embargo C) Amendments D) A new president
A) 100 square miles B) 200 square miles C) 50 square miles D) 10 square miles
A) Pressure from New York B) A threatened trade embargo C) The passage of the Bill of Rights D) A unanimous vote by Congress
A) 1789 B) 1891 C) 1796 D) 1795
A) Exclusive regional appeals jurisdiction B) Original jurisdiction C) Pendent jurisdiction D) Discretionary jurisdiction
A) Exclusive regional jurisdiction B) Original jurisdiction C) Discretionary jurisdiction D) Mandatory circuit jurisdiction
A) Only the Supreme Court justices did B) No C) Yes D) It was strictly forbidden by them
A) Res judicata B) Pendent jurisdiction C) Judicial review D) Discretionary jurisdiction
A) Original jurisdiction B) Discretionary jurisdiction C) Pendent jurisdiction D) Circuit jurisdiction
A) Fifteenth Amendment B) Seventeenth Amendment C) Fourteenth Amendment D) Sixteenth Amendment
A) Petition of Right B) Magna Carta C) Virginia Charter of 1606 D) English Bill of Rights
A) 1776 B) 1215 C) 1808 D) 1689
A) Egalitarian federations B) Autocratic monarchies C) Direct democracies D) Constitutional republics
A) A bicameral legislature B) Jury trials C) Universal suffrage D) A federal income tax
A) Philip Levy B) Donald Grinde C) Bruce Johansen D) John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt
A) Elisabeth Tooker B) William Starna C) Benjamin Franklin D) Gouverneur Morris
A) Smithsonian Institution B) Albany C) Pennsylvania D) Tuscarora Indian Reservation
A) Ethnologist B) Constitutional Scholar C) Archaeologist D) Framers Committee Chair
A) Accepted unanimously B) Modified into the Preamble C) Adopted as the first 10 amendments D) Rejected
A) Closing Endorsement B) Article V C) Albany Plan D) Preamble
A) The government's framework B) The six goals of the Preamble C) The Haudenosaunee Confederacy D) The names of the 39 framers
A) Tuscarora B) Pennsylvania C) Albany D) New York
A) 'We the People' B) 'the Thirteen Colonies' C) 'of the United States' D) 'our Posterity' |