AP GOV TEST REVIEW: UNIT 1 EXAM
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
100% PASS
Presidential powers (article 2) - ANS 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? - ANS 2/3 vote of the house and
Senate and 3/4 of state legislatures
Marbury versus Madison - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS Interstate commerce, said that guns in school zones is not interstate
commerce and narrowed the interstate commerce clause
Checks and balances - ANS Check on the power of the president. Example: impeachment,
confirming judges, cabinet, and ambassadors, veto, and override. A president can be impeached
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, by doing something of high crimes and misdemeanors, and the Senate will be the jury and
impeachment.
Filibuster - ANS 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 - ANS For older people
Medicaid - ANS People of low income
Obama care/ACA - ANS 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
Federalism - ANS Two levels of government, state, and national
Federal government - ANS Tells and forces people to do many things and pays for some, but
not others gets money from borrowing and taxing
Unfunded Mandate - ANS Government makes a state do something, but doesn't give them
the money to do it. Example: Americans With Disabilities Act.
Mandate - ANS Government makes a state do something, but give them the money to do it
Block grant - ANS Government gives money to states and tells them to spend it however they
want liked by Republicans
Categorical grant - ANS Government gives money to states and tells them they have to spend
it on a certain thing liked by Democrat Democrats
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2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
100% PASS
Presidential powers (article 2) - ANS 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? - ANS 2/3 vote of the house and
Senate and 3/4 of state legislatures
Marbury versus Madison - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS Interstate commerce, said that guns in school zones is not interstate
commerce and narrowed the interstate commerce clause
Checks and balances - ANS Check on the power of the president. Example: impeachment,
confirming judges, cabinet, and ambassadors, veto, and override. A president can be impeached
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, by doing something of high crimes and misdemeanors, and the Senate will be the jury and
impeachment.
Filibuster - ANS 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 - ANS For older people
Medicaid - ANS People of low income
Obama care/ACA - ANS 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
Federalism - ANS Two levels of government, state, and national
Federal government - ANS Tells and forces people to do many things and pays for some, but
not others gets money from borrowing and taxing
Unfunded Mandate - ANS Government makes a state do something, but doesn't give them
the money to do it. Example: Americans With Disabilities Act.
Mandate - ANS Government makes a state do something, but give them the money to do it
Block grant - ANS Government gives money to states and tells them to spend it however they
want liked by Republicans
Categorical grant - ANS Government gives money to states and tells them they have to spend
it on a certain thing liked by Democrat Democrats
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