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