Unit 1 Test Review
What is the difference between a monarchy, oligarchy and democracy?
How would you define Civics?
In what ways did Locke influence the framers of American government?
What is divine right? Did Locke agree with it?
What are our natural rights? What does it mean that they are inalienable?
What are the purposes of government?
What are the purposes of the Bill of Rights?
Why was ratifying the Constitution debatable? What were the two sides and what were their arguments?
What does each branch of government do? How do they check each other?
Are our rights limited? Please support your answer with examples.
Define Checks and Balances.
What is freedom of Assembly? Right to petition?
What are Libel and Slander?
What are some of the restrictions on the 1st Amendment?
Describe the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses.
What was decided in each of the Supreme Court Cases that we studied?
Explain the rule of TPM.
Review each of the amendments in the Bill of Rights.
Describe the difference between Probable Cause and Reasonable Suspicion.
What are some examples of things protected by the Ninth Amendment?
Describe Double Jeopardy. How does it protect the people?
Who has power to make a decision if the federal government has not? Then? Describe the chain of command.
What does consent of the governed mean?
What were some of Locke’s ideas concerning government?
According to Locke, when is rebellion justified?
Bicameral means…
What are the Articles of Confederation? Why don’t they still exist?
When, where and why did the Constitutional Convention take place?
What were some of the ideas and debates presented at the Constitutional Convention?
How did America let England know that they intended to be their own country?
Describe the New Jersey plan.
Describe the Virginia plan.
What was the Great Compromise?
What was the 3/5 Compromise?
What is the supreme law of the land?
What does the phrase “rule of law” mean? Why is this so important?
How many people serve on the Supreme Court, how long do they serve and what types of cases do they hear?
How many people serve in the House of Representatives, how long do they serve, and what are the requirements for being elected?
How many people serve in the Senate, how long do they serve, and what are the requirements for being elected?
Who is a part of the legislative branch?
Who is a part of the executive branch?
Who is a part of the judicial branch?
Who were the federalists? What did they believe?
Who were the anti-federalists? What did they believe?
How would you describe Due Process of Law?
What is the main difference between the 6th and 7th Amendments?
What is a crime?
What do we mean when we say, “good of society”?
When can the police enter a house without a search warrant?
What are some examples of powers granted to the states rather than the federal government?
When are our federal taxes due?
How does the Westboro Baptist Church case relate to what we have studied in class? What case does it most closely compare to?