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Which organization functioned as a powerful molder of public opinion against the British?
✔Correct Answer-Committees of Correspondence
The first major gathering of the colonies was the ✔Correct Answer-Stamp Act Congress
The Declaration of Independence was mostly directly influenced by which political philosopher?
✔Correct Answer-John Locke
Why did the Articles of Confederation create a national system of government whose power
was derived from the states? ✔Correct Answer-It was a reaction to Great Britain's unitary
system of government.
What was the greatest weakness of the Articles of Confederation? ✔Correct Answer-Congress
had no specific power to tax
What was the major difference between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan? ✔Correct
Answer-The Virginia Plan proposed a new national government deriving its powers from the
people, while the New Jersey Plan proposed revising the Articles to maintain a government
deriving its power from the states.
When James Madison wrote the famous words "ambition must be made to counteract
ambition," he was describing what? ✔Correct Answer-The separation of powers and checks
and balances between the three branches of the national government
What does Article III of the U.S. Constitution address? ✔Correct Answer-The judicial branch
Which of the following exemplifies the Anti-Federalists' views? ✔Correct Answer-A strong
central government could strip powers away from the states
In which of the following ways has the U.S. Constitution NOT been amended? ✔Correct
Answer-Ratification by conventions called in one-fourth of the states
Under the Constitution, both the national and state governments ✔Correct Answer-are
accountable to the people
The Tenth Amendment provides for ✔Correct Answer-states' reserved powers
, In Gibbons v. Ogden, the U.S. Supreme Court ✔Correct Answer-I. articulated an expansive
view of congressional powers
III. concluded that commerce should be given a broad definition
The Supreme Court held in Barron v. Baltimore that ✔Correct Answer-the Bill of Rights did not
apply to state governments.
Nullification ✔Correct Answer-was used to justify South Carolina's refusal to abide by federal
tariff laws
The Great Depression led to ✔Correct Answer-a growth in national government activity
New Federalism favors _______ over _______ grants. ✔Correct Answer-block/categorical
In general, the Rehnquist Court's federalism decisions empowered ✔Correct Answer-the state
governments at the expense of the national government
The No Child Left Behind Act is an example of ✔Correct Answer-preemption
According to the text, which of the following best exemplifies the cooperative aspects of
progressive federalism? ✔Correct Answer-Allowing states to set emissions standards
Which Amendment did the Court use to make some provisions of the Bill of Rights applicable to
the states? ✔Correct Answer-Fourteenth
Which of the following was NOT used as an argument against adding a Bill of Rights to the
Constitution? ✔Correct Answer-The Constitution already contained protections for individual
rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the establishment clause to mean that ✔Correct
Answer-governments may provide aid to religious schools as long as the aid goes to children
and not too religious goals
Which form of speech is protected under the First Amendment? ✔Correct Answer-Symbolic
Speech
Which is NOT considered a protected form of speech? ✔Correct Answer-Carrying a "Bong Hits
4 Jesus" banner during a school-sanctioned parade
the US Supreme Court first ruled that the second amendment protects an individual's right to
own a firearm in certain jurisdictions ✔Correct Answer-in D.C. v. Heller in 2008
traditionally, the Supreme Court has ruled that the fourth amendment requires a warrant for
police to search ✔Correct Answer-the home of the accused