GOVT 407 TEST PAPER 2025 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GUARANTEE A+
✔✔constituional convention 1787 - ✔✔agreement to revise the articles of confederation
Rhode Island did NOT send anyone to rep them
*key issue: how much democracy?
✔✔Slavery - ✔✔"stain" on the constitution
doesn't appear on constitution
-3/5 compromise
-The Great Compromise
✔✔Senecca Falls Convention 1848 - ✔✔Women's suffrage
Elizabeth 1919 uses thomas jeff language
"not only all men but all women are created equal"
✔✔Abigail Adams - ✔✔Remember the Ladies
✔✔Madison's Arguement in Fed. 10 - ✔✔Antifederalist feared that the states would be
swallowed up
Articles of confederation -> constituiton (federation)
✔✔Design - ✔✔US Govt limited and enumerated the states powers
✔✔Article I - ✔✔legislative branch
✔✔Article II - ✔✔executive branch
✔✔Article III - ✔✔judiciary branch
✔✔Legislative - ✔✔-passes federal laws
-controls federal appropriations
-approves treaties and presidential appts
-regulates interstate commerce
-establishes lower court system
✔✔Executive - ✔✔-enforces the law
-commander in cheif of armed forces
-makes foreign treaties
-nominates the sup. court, justices, and fed court justices
✔✔Judicial - ✔✔-reviews court lower court decisions
-decides constitutionality of laws
-decides cases involving disputes between states
, ✔✔Montesquieus's mixed regime - ✔✔House:
Pop vote; direct
Senate:
state legislatures; indirect
Executive:
ellectoral college; indirect
Judiciary:
appointed by executive; indirect
✔✔Separation of Powers - ✔✔leg, exec, jud
✔✔The state legislature of Georgia, known as the Georgia General Assembly, with its
upper chamber (the Georgia Senate) and lower chamber (the Georgia House of
Representatives), is an institution that exemplifies the principle of: - ✔✔c) bicameralism
✔✔Article I of the U.S. Constitution provides for the: - ✔✔d) legislative branch
✔✔The Constitution grants the power to ratify treaties to the: - ✔✔d) Senate
✔✔Under the unamended Constitution of 1787, U.S. senators were selected by: - ✔✔d)
state legislatures
✔✔When President George W. Bush reduced presidential assistant "Scooter" Libby's
jail sentence that had been imposed when Libby was convicted of revealing the name of
an undercover CIA operative, he exemplified the power of the president to: - ✔✔d) grant
pardons and reprieves
✔✔The power of the courts to render the final decision in cases involving a conflict of
interpretation of the Constitution or of laws between courts and Congress, the courts
and the executive branch, or the courts and the states is referred to as: - ✔✔c) judicial
review
✔✔Which provision of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that if you go on vacation and
get married in an Elvis-themed chapel at 3 am on the Las Vegas strip, your home state
will legally recognize the union? - ✔✔e) the full faith and credit clause
✔✔Compared to the confederation principle under the Articles of Confederation,
federalism was a step toward: - ✔✔d) greater centralization of power
✔✔Unjust rule by the group in power is called: - ✔✔e) tyranny
✔✔The purpose of the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights was basically to give each
of the three branches of government: - ✔✔b) clearer and more restrictive boundaries
GUARANTEE A+
✔✔constituional convention 1787 - ✔✔agreement to revise the articles of confederation
Rhode Island did NOT send anyone to rep them
*key issue: how much democracy?
✔✔Slavery - ✔✔"stain" on the constitution
doesn't appear on constitution
-3/5 compromise
-The Great Compromise
✔✔Senecca Falls Convention 1848 - ✔✔Women's suffrage
Elizabeth 1919 uses thomas jeff language
"not only all men but all women are created equal"
✔✔Abigail Adams - ✔✔Remember the Ladies
✔✔Madison's Arguement in Fed. 10 - ✔✔Antifederalist feared that the states would be
swallowed up
Articles of confederation -> constituiton (federation)
✔✔Design - ✔✔US Govt limited and enumerated the states powers
✔✔Article I - ✔✔legislative branch
✔✔Article II - ✔✔executive branch
✔✔Article III - ✔✔judiciary branch
✔✔Legislative - ✔✔-passes federal laws
-controls federal appropriations
-approves treaties and presidential appts
-regulates interstate commerce
-establishes lower court system
✔✔Executive - ✔✔-enforces the law
-commander in cheif of armed forces
-makes foreign treaties
-nominates the sup. court, justices, and fed court justices
✔✔Judicial - ✔✔-reviews court lower court decisions
-decides constitutionality of laws
-decides cases involving disputes between states
, ✔✔Montesquieus's mixed regime - ✔✔House:
Pop vote; direct
Senate:
state legislatures; indirect
Executive:
ellectoral college; indirect
Judiciary:
appointed by executive; indirect
✔✔Separation of Powers - ✔✔leg, exec, jud
✔✔The state legislature of Georgia, known as the Georgia General Assembly, with its
upper chamber (the Georgia Senate) and lower chamber (the Georgia House of
Representatives), is an institution that exemplifies the principle of: - ✔✔c) bicameralism
✔✔Article I of the U.S. Constitution provides for the: - ✔✔d) legislative branch
✔✔The Constitution grants the power to ratify treaties to the: - ✔✔d) Senate
✔✔Under the unamended Constitution of 1787, U.S. senators were selected by: - ✔✔d)
state legislatures
✔✔When President George W. Bush reduced presidential assistant "Scooter" Libby's
jail sentence that had been imposed when Libby was convicted of revealing the name of
an undercover CIA operative, he exemplified the power of the president to: - ✔✔d) grant
pardons and reprieves
✔✔The power of the courts to render the final decision in cases involving a conflict of
interpretation of the Constitution or of laws between courts and Congress, the courts
and the executive branch, or the courts and the states is referred to as: - ✔✔c) judicial
review
✔✔Which provision of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that if you go on vacation and
get married in an Elvis-themed chapel at 3 am on the Las Vegas strip, your home state
will legally recognize the union? - ✔✔e) the full faith and credit clause
✔✔Compared to the confederation principle under the Articles of Confederation,
federalism was a step toward: - ✔✔d) greater centralization of power
✔✔Unjust rule by the group in power is called: - ✔✔e) tyranny
✔✔The purpose of the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights was basically to give each
of the three branches of government: - ✔✔b) clearer and more restrictive boundaries
