AP Gov Unit 1 Progress Check
questions with correct answers.
"In every free government, the people must give their assent to the laws by which they are governed.
This is the true criterion between a free government and an arbitrary one. The former are ruled by the
will of the whole, expressed in any manner they may agree upon; the latter by the will of one, or a few.
If the people are to give their assent to the laws, by persons chosen and appointed by them, the manner
of the choice and the number chosen, must be such, as to possess, be disposed, and consequently
qualified to declare the sentiments of the people; for if they do not know, or are not disposed to speak
the sentiments of the people, the people do not govern, but the sovereignty is in a few. Now, in a large
extended country, it is impossible to have a representation, possessing the sentiments, and of integrity,
to declare the minds of the people, without having it so numerous and unwieldy, as to be subject in
great ANS - B Nations with extended territory cannot fairly represent their citizens in a republican form
of government.
"In every free government, the people must give their assent to the laws by which they are governed.
This is the true criterion between a free government and an arbitrary one. The former are ruled by the
will of the whole, expressed in any manner they may agree upon; the latter by the will of one, or a few.
If the people are to give their assent to the laws, by persons chosen and appointed by them, the manner
of the choice and the number chosen, must be such, as to possess, be disposed, and consequently
qualified to declare the sentiments of the people; for if they do not know, or are not disposed to speak
the sentiments of the people, the people do not govern, but the sovereignty is in a few. Now, in a large
extended country, it is impossible to have a representation, possessing the sentiments, and of integrity,
to declare the minds of the people, without having it so numerous and unwieldy, as to be subject in
great ANS - B Participatory democracy and elite democracy
"In every free government, the people must give their assent to the laws by which they are governed.
This is the true criterion between a free government and an arbitrary one. The former are ruled by the
will of the whole, expressed in any manner they may agree upon; the latter by the will of one, or a few.
If the people are to give their assent to the laws, by persons chosen and appointed by them, the manner
of the choice and the number chosen, must be such, as to possess, be disposed, and consequently
qualified to declare the sentiments of the people; for if they do not know, or are not disposed to speak
the sentiments of the people, the people do not govern, but the sovereignty is in a few. Now, in a large
extended country, it is impossible to have a representation, possessing the sentiments, and of integrity,
to declare the minds of the people, without having it so numerous and unwieldy, as to be subject in
great ANS - D "... [I]t is impossible to have a representation, possessing the sentiments, and of integrity,
, to declare the minds of the people, without having it so numerous and unwieldy, as to be subject in
great measure to the inconveniency of a democratic government."
While [opponents of the Constitution] admit that the government of the United States is destitute of
energy, they contend against conferring upon it those powers which are requisite to supply that energy.
They seem still to aim at things repugnant and irreconcilable; at an augmentation of federal authority,
without a diminution of State authority; at sovereignty in the Union, and complete independence in the
members. . . . This [requires that] a full display of the principal defects of the Confederation [is]
necessary, in order to show that the evils we experience do not proceed from minute or partial
imperfections, but from fundamental errors in the structure of the building, which cannot be amended
otherwise than by an alteration in the first principles and main pillars of the fabric. . . . [T]he United
States has an indefinite discretion to [plead for] for men and money; but they have no authority to raise
either, ANS - B The debt crisis of the 1780s which the national government was unable to address due to
lack of authority
While [opponents of the Constitution] admit that the government of the United States is destitute of
energy, they contend against conferring upon it those powers which are requisite to supply that energy.
They seem still to aim at things repugnant and irreconcilable; at an augmentation of federal authority,
without a diminution of State authority; at sovereignty in the Union, and complete independence in the
members. . . . This [requires that] a full display of the principal defects of the Confederation [is]
necessary, in order to show that the evils we experience do not proceed from minute or partial
imperfections, but from fundamental errors in the structure of the building, which cannot be amended
otherwise than by an alteration in the first principles and main pillars of the fabric. . . . [T]he United
States has an indefinite discretion to [plead for] for men and money; but they have no authority to raise
either, ANS - B Articles of Confederation allowed for the federal government to request revenues from
states but did not permit it to tax citizens directly, whereas under the United States Constitution the
federal government could tax citizens directly.
While [opponents of the Constitution] admit that the government of the United States is destitute of
energy, they contend against conferring upon it those powers which are requisite to supply that energy.
They seem still to aim at things repugnant and irreconcilable; at an augmentation of federal authority,
without a diminution of State authority; at sovereignty in the Union, and complete independence in the
members. . . . This [requires that] a full display of the principal defects of the Confederation [is]
necessary, in order to show that the evils we experience do not proceed from minute or partial
imperfections, but from fundamental errors in the structure of the building, which cannot be amended
otherwise than by an alteration in the first principles and main pillars of the fabric. . . . [T]he United
States has an indefinite discretion to [plead for] for men and money; but they have no authority to raise
either, ANS - A "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to
pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all
Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"
questions with correct answers.
"In every free government, the people must give their assent to the laws by which they are governed.
This is the true criterion between a free government and an arbitrary one. The former are ruled by the
will of the whole, expressed in any manner they may agree upon; the latter by the will of one, or a few.
If the people are to give their assent to the laws, by persons chosen and appointed by them, the manner
of the choice and the number chosen, must be such, as to possess, be disposed, and consequently
qualified to declare the sentiments of the people; for if they do not know, or are not disposed to speak
the sentiments of the people, the people do not govern, but the sovereignty is in a few. Now, in a large
extended country, it is impossible to have a representation, possessing the sentiments, and of integrity,
to declare the minds of the people, without having it so numerous and unwieldy, as to be subject in
great ANS - B Nations with extended territory cannot fairly represent their citizens in a republican form
of government.
"In every free government, the people must give their assent to the laws by which they are governed.
This is the true criterion between a free government and an arbitrary one. The former are ruled by the
will of the whole, expressed in any manner they may agree upon; the latter by the will of one, or a few.
If the people are to give their assent to the laws, by persons chosen and appointed by them, the manner
of the choice and the number chosen, must be such, as to possess, be disposed, and consequently
qualified to declare the sentiments of the people; for if they do not know, or are not disposed to speak
the sentiments of the people, the people do not govern, but the sovereignty is in a few. Now, in a large
extended country, it is impossible to have a representation, possessing the sentiments, and of integrity,
to declare the minds of the people, without having it so numerous and unwieldy, as to be subject in
great ANS - B Participatory democracy and elite democracy
"In every free government, the people must give their assent to the laws by which they are governed.
This is the true criterion between a free government and an arbitrary one. The former are ruled by the
will of the whole, expressed in any manner they may agree upon; the latter by the will of one, or a few.
If the people are to give their assent to the laws, by persons chosen and appointed by them, the manner
of the choice and the number chosen, must be such, as to possess, be disposed, and consequently
qualified to declare the sentiments of the people; for if they do not know, or are not disposed to speak
the sentiments of the people, the people do not govern, but the sovereignty is in a few. Now, in a large
extended country, it is impossible to have a representation, possessing the sentiments, and of integrity,
to declare the minds of the people, without having it so numerous and unwieldy, as to be subject in
great ANS - D "... [I]t is impossible to have a representation, possessing the sentiments, and of integrity,
, to declare the minds of the people, without having it so numerous and unwieldy, as to be subject in
great measure to the inconveniency of a democratic government."
While [opponents of the Constitution] admit that the government of the United States is destitute of
energy, they contend against conferring upon it those powers which are requisite to supply that energy.
They seem still to aim at things repugnant and irreconcilable; at an augmentation of federal authority,
without a diminution of State authority; at sovereignty in the Union, and complete independence in the
members. . . . This [requires that] a full display of the principal defects of the Confederation [is]
necessary, in order to show that the evils we experience do not proceed from minute or partial
imperfections, but from fundamental errors in the structure of the building, which cannot be amended
otherwise than by an alteration in the first principles and main pillars of the fabric. . . . [T]he United
States has an indefinite discretion to [plead for] for men and money; but they have no authority to raise
either, ANS - B The debt crisis of the 1780s which the national government was unable to address due to
lack of authority
While [opponents of the Constitution] admit that the government of the United States is destitute of
energy, they contend against conferring upon it those powers which are requisite to supply that energy.
They seem still to aim at things repugnant and irreconcilable; at an augmentation of federal authority,
without a diminution of State authority; at sovereignty in the Union, and complete independence in the
members. . . . This [requires that] a full display of the principal defects of the Confederation [is]
necessary, in order to show that the evils we experience do not proceed from minute or partial
imperfections, but from fundamental errors in the structure of the building, which cannot be amended
otherwise than by an alteration in the first principles and main pillars of the fabric. . . . [T]he United
States has an indefinite discretion to [plead for] for men and money; but they have no authority to raise
either, ANS - B Articles of Confederation allowed for the federal government to request revenues from
states but did not permit it to tax citizens directly, whereas under the United States Constitution the
federal government could tax citizens directly.
While [opponents of the Constitution] admit that the government of the United States is destitute of
energy, they contend against conferring upon it those powers which are requisite to supply that energy.
They seem still to aim at things repugnant and irreconcilable; at an augmentation of federal authority,
without a diminution of State authority; at sovereignty in the Union, and complete independence in the
members. . . . This [requires that] a full display of the principal defects of the Confederation [is]
necessary, in order to show that the evils we experience do not proceed from minute or partial
imperfections, but from fundamental errors in the structure of the building, which cannot be amended
otherwise than by an alteration in the first principles and main pillars of the fabric. . . . [T]he United
States has an indefinite discretion to [plead for] for men and money; but they have no authority to raise
either, ANS - A "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to
pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all
Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"
