U.S. Government Exam Review 2025
Questions and Answers
What is the purpose of government? - ANSWER✔✔-Protect, maintain public order, resolve social
conflicts, responsibility for a stable economy, and provide public services.
Limited Government - ANSWER✔✔-A system in which government's powers are restricted and
individuals' rights are protected.
Declaration of Independence - ANSWER✔✔-Written by Thomas Jefferson, Declares
Independence, List of complaints against Britain,expresses enduring beliefs of American society.
Defines liberty, order, equality, democracy, and justice.
John Locke - ANSWER✔✔-Enlightenment philosopher who wrote the "Second Treasties of
Government", greatly influenced the Declaration of Independence. Principles:Natural Rights and
Consent of The Governed.
Surpremacy Clause and changes - ANSWER✔✔-Created to keep elastic clause from being
stretched, and to restrict governmental powers. Overlooked during McCulloch VS. Maryland case.
During the civil war, supremacy clause guaranteed that the union could not be dissolved.
Unitary System - ANSWER✔✔-A form of government in which all powers of the government are
held by a single unit or agency.
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,Federal System - ANSWER✔✔-A form of government in which governmental powers are divided
between a central authority and a number of regional political subdivisions.
Confederacy - ANSWER✔✔-A political system in which a weak central government has limited
authority, and the states have all of the power.
Socialism - ANSWER✔✔-The economic system that advocates government ownership of the
means of products.
Capitalism - ANSWER✔✔-An economic system characterized by open competition in a free market
and based on private ownership.
Communism - ANSWER✔✔-A system of government in which the state controls the means of
production.
Parlimentary Government - ANSWER✔✔-A form of government in which the executive leaders
are chosen by and responsible to the legislature.
Presidential Government - ANSWER✔✔-A form of government in which the legeslative and
executive brances are seperate and function independently.
Democracy - ANSWER✔✔-A sytem of government by the people, exercised either directly or
through elected representatives.
Direct Democracy - ANSWER✔✔-A democratic system of government in which all citizens
participate in politics and desicion-making.
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, Representative Democracy - ANSWER✔✔-A democratic system of government in which policies
are made by officials accountable to the people who elected them.
Dictatorship - ANSWER✔✔-A form of government in which an absolute ruler controls the power,
often through fear or force, and ignores the will of the people.
Monarchy - ANSWER✔✔-A government in which the ruler's power is hereditary.
Popular Sovereignty - ANSWER✔✔-The fundemental principle that the power to govern belongs
to the people and that the government must be based on the consent of the governed.
Second Treasties of Government - ANSWER✔✔-Written by John Locke, and expresses
enlightenment philosophy and the principles of the consent of the governed and natural rights.
Checks and Balances - ANSWER✔✔-A system in which the political power is divided among the
three branches of government, each having some control over the others.
Preamble - ANSWER✔✔-Lists the six goals of government: form a more perfect union, establish
justice, ensure domestic peace, provide for common defense, promote the general welfare, and
secure liberty.
First Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-Freedom of speech and press including pure speech, speech plus,
symbolic speech, and flag burning.
Second Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-Right to bear arms
Tenth Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-Powers of states and people
Fourteenth Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-Citizenship and Civil Rights
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Questions and Answers
What is the purpose of government? - ANSWER✔✔-Protect, maintain public order, resolve social
conflicts, responsibility for a stable economy, and provide public services.
Limited Government - ANSWER✔✔-A system in which government's powers are restricted and
individuals' rights are protected.
Declaration of Independence - ANSWER✔✔-Written by Thomas Jefferson, Declares
Independence, List of complaints against Britain,expresses enduring beliefs of American society.
Defines liberty, order, equality, democracy, and justice.
John Locke - ANSWER✔✔-Enlightenment philosopher who wrote the "Second Treasties of
Government", greatly influenced the Declaration of Independence. Principles:Natural Rights and
Consent of The Governed.
Surpremacy Clause and changes - ANSWER✔✔-Created to keep elastic clause from being
stretched, and to restrict governmental powers. Overlooked during McCulloch VS. Maryland case.
During the civil war, supremacy clause guaranteed that the union could not be dissolved.
Unitary System - ANSWER✔✔-A form of government in which all powers of the government are
held by a single unit or agency.
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,Federal System - ANSWER✔✔-A form of government in which governmental powers are divided
between a central authority and a number of regional political subdivisions.
Confederacy - ANSWER✔✔-A political system in which a weak central government has limited
authority, and the states have all of the power.
Socialism - ANSWER✔✔-The economic system that advocates government ownership of the
means of products.
Capitalism - ANSWER✔✔-An economic system characterized by open competition in a free market
and based on private ownership.
Communism - ANSWER✔✔-A system of government in which the state controls the means of
production.
Parlimentary Government - ANSWER✔✔-A form of government in which the executive leaders
are chosen by and responsible to the legislature.
Presidential Government - ANSWER✔✔-A form of government in which the legeslative and
executive brances are seperate and function independently.
Democracy - ANSWER✔✔-A sytem of government by the people, exercised either directly or
through elected representatives.
Direct Democracy - ANSWER✔✔-A democratic system of government in which all citizens
participate in politics and desicion-making.
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, Representative Democracy - ANSWER✔✔-A democratic system of government in which policies
are made by officials accountable to the people who elected them.
Dictatorship - ANSWER✔✔-A form of government in which an absolute ruler controls the power,
often through fear or force, and ignores the will of the people.
Monarchy - ANSWER✔✔-A government in which the ruler's power is hereditary.
Popular Sovereignty - ANSWER✔✔-The fundemental principle that the power to govern belongs
to the people and that the government must be based on the consent of the governed.
Second Treasties of Government - ANSWER✔✔-Written by John Locke, and expresses
enlightenment philosophy and the principles of the consent of the governed and natural rights.
Checks and Balances - ANSWER✔✔-A system in which the political power is divided among the
three branches of government, each having some control over the others.
Preamble - ANSWER✔✔-Lists the six goals of government: form a more perfect union, establish
justice, ensure domestic peace, provide for common defense, promote the general welfare, and
secure liberty.
First Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-Freedom of speech and press including pure speech, speech plus,
symbolic speech, and flag burning.
Second Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-Right to bear arms
Tenth Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-Powers of states and people
Fourteenth Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-Citizenship and Civil Rights
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