Government
Review
Chapters 1 and 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Constitution
Unitary Government
Parliamentary Government
Legislative Branch
Judicial Power
What are the six purposes of the US government spelled out in the Preamble of
the Constitution?
7. What three “Great Thinkers” agree that the state exist to serve the will of the
people?
8. What is the Dominate political unit in the world Today?
9. Which government divides power between central and local governments?
10. What basic characteristic do the 50 States lack?
11. List the Characteristics of a democracy.
12. What is the Social Contract Theory? Who wrote it?
13. What is an example of public policy?
14. What is meant by “Promote the General Welfare?”
15. What are the characteristics of a dictatorship? Who holds the “power” of
sovereignty?
16. List the Characteristics of a unitary government. Does the US qualify as a unitary
government? Why or why not?
17. What are the rights of minority groups in a democracy?
18. Why would a dictatorship “fear” the internet?
Chapter 2:
19. Anti-federalist
20. Boycott
21. Connecticut Compromise
22. Magna Carta
23. Representative Government
24. Virginia Plan
25. Petition of Rights
26. Proprietary colonies
27. Put the following in the correct order
a. Stamp Act
b. Articles of Confederation
c. Intolerable Acts
d. Need for Strong Central Government
e. Stamp Act congress
f. Creation of army, money system, treaties
g. First continental Congress
h. Second Continental Congress
28. Who dealt with government matters in a Charter Colony?
29. Was the idea of God given certain people the right to rule included in the
Declaration of Independence?
30. What was the accomplishment of the Second Continental Congress?
31. The Petition of Rights limited the powers of the _____________________.
32. The Federalist was considered a campaign document because it
______________________________________________________________.
33. What did delegates decide to do about the Articles of Confederation at the
Philadelphia convention?
34. What document was written to express wrongs done to the colonists?
35. The first state constitution focused mainly on ____________________________.
36. Why did the delegates (framers) establish the Commerce and Slave Trade
Compromise?
37. Who did the Framers of the Constitution draw their experiences from?
38. What was the importance of the Connecticut Compromise and the Three-Fifths
Compromise?
39. Why was it ironic that Virginia was one of the last states to ratify the
Constitution?
40. What was the fear of the Anti-Federalist about the Newly established
government?