PURDUE UNIVERSITY CIVICS LITERACY EXAM
QUESTIONS & UPDATED COMPLETE ANSWERS
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1. Right to Marry:
2. private life: relates to a citizens right to privacy and the pursuit of private and personal interests.
3. civic life: the public life of the citizen concerned with the attairs of the community and nation
4. Limited Government: the government has only the powers granted to it in the constitution, and it can
only conduct actions permitted by the constitution. in other words these are established and respected restraints on
government power.
5. Rule of Law: an essential component of limited government. society is governed according to widely known
and accepted rules followed not only by government but also by those in authority.
6. Checks and Balances: The Constitutionally granted power for one branch of government to block action by an
equal branch of government. The Constitution specifies instances in which one of the three branches can stop action
by another.
7. Separation of powers: The Constitution keeps the three branches of government (executive, legislative,
and judicial) separate. The powers and responsibilities of each is described in a separate Article. Separation makes
each Branch the equal of the others.
8. Declaration of Independence: the public act by which the Second Continental Congress, on July 4,
1776, declared the Colonies to be free and independent of Britain.
9. Articles of Confederation: 1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (government weaknesses-no exec-
utive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade, declare war, raise revenue, coin money, or control
international tarrifs.)
power was in the states (provide troops and money, own currency, own tarrifs. tax goods)
Took agreement of 9 states before the government could act and every state had to agree before articles were to change.
10. Great Compromise or Connecticut compromise (revised constitution): 1787 combined
Virginia and New Jersey plans calling for bicameral legislature or two houses.
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,PURDUE UNIVERSITY CIVICS LITERACY EXAM
QUESTIONS & UPDATED COMPLETE ANSWERS
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house of representatives in which larger states had more representatives and the senate where each state had 2 senators
regardless of population.
creation of electoral collage and Supreme Court
power to congress not states (raise taxes, coin money, regulate commerce between state and foreign, pass necessary and
proper laws, war power, ability to amass forces to fight war, power to declare war, president was comander in chief)
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QUESTIONS & UPDATED COMPLETE ANSWERS
RATED 100% CORRECT
1. Right to Marry:
2. private life: relates to a citizens right to privacy and the pursuit of private and personal interests.
3. civic life: the public life of the citizen concerned with the attairs of the community and nation
4. Limited Government: the government has only the powers granted to it in the constitution, and it can
only conduct actions permitted by the constitution. in other words these are established and respected restraints on
government power.
5. Rule of Law: an essential component of limited government. society is governed according to widely known
and accepted rules followed not only by government but also by those in authority.
6. Checks and Balances: The Constitutionally granted power for one branch of government to block action by an
equal branch of government. The Constitution specifies instances in which one of the three branches can stop action
by another.
7. Separation of powers: The Constitution keeps the three branches of government (executive, legislative,
and judicial) separate. The powers and responsibilities of each is described in a separate Article. Separation makes
each Branch the equal of the others.
8. Declaration of Independence: the public act by which the Second Continental Congress, on July 4,
1776, declared the Colonies to be free and independent of Britain.
9. Articles of Confederation: 1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (government weaknesses-no exec-
utive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade, declare war, raise revenue, coin money, or control
international tarrifs.)
power was in the states (provide troops and money, own currency, own tarrifs. tax goods)
Took agreement of 9 states before the government could act and every state had to agree before articles were to change.
10. Great Compromise or Connecticut compromise (revised constitution): 1787 combined
Virginia and New Jersey plans calling for bicameral legislature or two houses.
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,PURDUE UNIVERSITY CIVICS LITERACY EXAM
QUESTIONS & UPDATED COMPLETE ANSWERS
RATED 100% CORRECT
house of representatives in which larger states had more representatives and the senate where each state had 2 senators
regardless of population.
creation of electoral collage and Supreme Court
power to congress not states (raise taxes, coin money, regulate commerce between state and foreign, pass necessary and
proper laws, war power, ability to amass forces to fight war, power to declare war, president was comander in chief)
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