Unit 1: Constitution Test Review

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1. Summarize the core beliefs of the Enlightenment thinkers.

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2. Summarize the effects of the Enlightenment.
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3. What ideas of John Locke inspired Thomas Jefferson?
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4. What idea did Montesquieu inspire our Founding Fathers to include in the Constitution?
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5. Why did the Founding Fathers feel it was important to have a separation of powers?
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6. According to Locke, if the government does not protect our rights what are the people to
do?
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7. What are our Unalienable Rights?
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8. What are checks and balances?
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9. Why did the Antifederalists insist that the Constitution must have a Bill of Rights? (p. 70 in
textbook)
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10.Who has the ultimate authority: federal or state governments?
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11.What does nullification mean?
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12.What was an effect of the passage of the 15 th Amendment?
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13.Which Amendments expanded voting rights?
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14.Thomas Jefferson said that we needed to have a wall of separation between church
and state. What does he mean by that?
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the

free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of
the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of
grievances.
15.Based on the text, what two religious freedoms are protected in the 1st Amendment?
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