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Florida Civic Literacy Exam - Study Guide FCLE latest What historic document (17th century) created a "civil body politic"? - CORRECT ANSWER-Mayflower Compact What was the Magna Carta? - CORRECT ANSWER-document that started to limit the power of the king, establish habeas corpus and limit taxation What document did American colonists, protesting the Stamp Act in 1766, claim gave them rights such as "no taxation without representation"? - CORRECT ANSWER-British Constitution Americans, especially by the 19th and 20th centuries, claimed what about the Magna Carta? - CORRECT ANSWER-the people's reassertion of rights against an oppressive ruler What was Thomas Paine's Common Sense? - CORRECT ANSWER-a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies What was the influence of Common Sense? - CORRECT ANSWER-inspired American colonists to declare independence from England. What is the Declaration of Independence? - CORRECT ANSWER-It is a document that declared independence from Britain and the formation of a new country, the USA. What are the three rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence? - CORRECT ANSWER-Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness Which of the following was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation? - CORRECT ANSWER-Congress did not have the power to regulate foreign and interstate commerce. What did Shay's Rebellion and an economic crisis lead to? - CORRECT ANSWER-the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. The Convention elected Washington as its president and ultimately produced the Constitution of the United States. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words? - CORRECT ANSWER-We the people What is the Supreme Law of the Land? - CORRECT ANSWER-The constitution What were the 88 essays published in newspaper to support ratification of the Constitution are known as? Who wrote those essays? - CORRECT ANSWER-The Federalist Papers, written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison What type of government does the US have? - CORRECT ANSWER-representative democracy
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