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TRUE/FALSE
1. Members of the Tea Party tend to believe that the federal government has overreached its
constitutional authority.
2. The Constitution accomplishes the following tasks: it sets up our basic rules of governance, limits
government actions against citizens, and provides for specific individual rights.
3. The Constitution places more limits on government power than the Articles of Confederation.
4. The framers believed that protecting natural rights of citizens would be accomplished through a
government that relied on the “consent of the governed.”
5. America’s relative economic equality compared to Europe influenced the context of debates at the
Constitutional Convention.
6. Antifederalists favored a stronger national government while Federalists favored stronger state
governments.
7. The framers of the Constitution believed both in the need for a stronger central government and in the
need to limit the national government through the separation of powers.
9. A separation of powers system creates different branches of government with completely independent
realms of power.
10. According to James Madison, factions must be set against each other to control majority tyranny.
11. The Great Compromise guaranteed that large states would hold more power in the constitutional
balance by having membership in both houses of Congress based on population.
12. Attendees at the Constitutional Convention chose the electoral college as a means of selecting a
president because it helped tie the executive branch to the legislative branch.
13. The Antifederalists pushed for the inclusion of the national supremacy clause.
14. The reason the Constitution did not outlaw slavery was because the framers did not object to the
practice.
16. The Bill of Rights is a list of limits on the control that the federal government has over state
governments.
17. Among the president’s powers are the power to pass the federal budget, the ability to recognize
representatives from other countries, and the responsibility for executing the law.
18. The Supreme Court gained the power of judicial review after the decision in Marbury v. Madison.
19. The enumerated powers are the specific list of powers granted to Congress in Article I of the
Constitution.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following is the main argument behind the Tea Party movement?
a. The Federal Reserve should have expanded powers to regulate the economy.
b. The expansion of the federal government has grown beyond what the founding fathers
intended.
c. Presidents have been granted too much power by the Constitution.
d. The Supreme Court should be more proactive in striking down unconstitutional
legislation.
e. Taxes should only be used to help the neediest in society.
ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: The Historical Context of the Constitution
OBJ: Describe the historical circumstances that led to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
MSC: Understanding
1. The following table exhibits the ages of three hundred and twenty-six
females, at which they began to menstruate. It is furnished me by Mr. Robertson,
in the North of England Medical and Surgical Journal.
To this list may be added the case related by Madame Boivin, in her account of
a new case of abortion. The subject of this case commenced to menstruate at seven
years of age, and did so regularly after her tenth year.
2. We could record a number of instances where the menses were continued
much beyond their ordinary period, and where, after ceasing some time, they were
resumed with their accustomed regularity; but we shall limit our observations to
one case, and that because it is recent and well authenticated. This case is recorded
in the Ann. Univ. de Med. A female aged ninety-four continued to menstruate from
the fifty-third to the ninety-fourth year. Her relatives were remarkable for their
longevity; she is at present in perfect health.—American Journal of the Medical
Sciences for Feb. 1831.
3. Diaphoretic Powder.
38. Some German poet, whose name has escaped me, says,
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