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AP Gov Test Review: Unit 1 Questions with Answers
(100% Correct Answers)
Presidential powers (article 2)— 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?— Answer:
2/3 vote of the house and Senate and 3/4 of state legislatures
Marbury versus Madison— 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— 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
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US versus Lopez— Answer: Interstate commerce, said that guns in
school zones is not interstate commerce and narrowed the interstate
commerce clause
Checks and balances— 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— 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— Answer: For older people
Medicaid— Answer: People of low income
Obama care/ACA— Answer: Provides subsidies (money from the
government to buy people health healthcare) democrats are in support
of this and Medicaid expansion because they want everyone to have
healthcare, but Republicans are not in support of this because it is
spending way too much money from the government
© 2025 All rights reserved
AP Gov Test Review: Unit 1 Questions with Answers
(100% Correct Answers)
Presidential powers (article 2)— 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?— Answer:
2/3 vote of the house and Senate and 3/4 of state legislatures
Marbury versus Madison— 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— 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
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US versus Lopez— Answer: Interstate commerce, said that guns in
school zones is not interstate commerce and narrowed the interstate
commerce clause
Checks and balances— 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— 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— Answer: For older people
Medicaid— Answer: People of low income
Obama care/ACA— Answer: Provides subsidies (money from the
government to buy people health healthcare) democrats are in support
of this and Medicaid expansion because they want everyone to have
healthcare, but Republicans are not in support of this because it is
spending way too much money from the government
© 2025 All rights reserved
