AP GOV TEST REVIEW UNIT 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Presidential powers (article 2) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Veto power (house in Senate can override veto if
they get super majority of 2/3) pardon, power, executive orders, execute laws, appoint, judges,
commander and chief of military
What do you need to change a constitutional amendment? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅2/3 vote of the
house and Senate and 3/4 of state legislatures
Marbury versus Madison - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Established judicial review, Marberry was late to turn
in papers for the job of justice of the peace, and Madison said that he doesn't get the job and Marberry
sued him but the court said he doesn't get in the job under our judicial review
McCullough versus Maryland - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Elastic clause and supremacy clause, part one:
elastic clause, the country needs a national bank because of it being necessary and proper
Part two: supremacy clause, Maryland tried to tax the national bank, but you cannot do that because of
supremacy clause
US versus Lopez - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Interstate commerce, said that guns in school zones is not
interstate commerce and narrowed the interstate commerce clause
Checks and balances - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Check on the power of the president. Example:
impeachment, confirming judges, cabinet, and ambassadors, veto, and override. A president can be
impeached by doing something of high crimes and misdemeanors, and the Senate will be the jury and
impeachment.
Filibuster - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅When the minority political party stalls a decision by talking for a long
time and trying to convince the other side, blocks vote, but the majority ca get rid of it
Medicare - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅For older people
Medicaid - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅People of low income
Presidential powers (article 2) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Veto power (house in Senate can override veto if
they get super majority of 2/3) pardon, power, executive orders, execute laws, appoint, judges,
commander and chief of military
What do you need to change a constitutional amendment? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅2/3 vote of the
house and Senate and 3/4 of state legislatures
Marbury versus Madison - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Established judicial review, Marberry was late to turn
in papers for the job of justice of the peace, and Madison said that he doesn't get the job and Marberry
sued him but the court said he doesn't get in the job under our judicial review
McCullough versus Maryland - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Elastic clause and supremacy clause, part one:
elastic clause, the country needs a national bank because of it being necessary and proper
Part two: supremacy clause, Maryland tried to tax the national bank, but you cannot do that because of
supremacy clause
US versus Lopez - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Interstate commerce, said that guns in school zones is not
interstate commerce and narrowed the interstate commerce clause
Checks and balances - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Check on the power of the president. Example:
impeachment, confirming judges, cabinet, and ambassadors, veto, and override. A president can be
impeached by doing something of high crimes and misdemeanors, and the Senate will be the jury and
impeachment.
Filibuster - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅When the minority political party stalls a decision by talking for a long
time and trying to convince the other side, blocks vote, but the majority ca get rid of it
Medicare - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅For older people
Medicaid - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅People of low income
