Writing Homework Help

What change to the Constitution brought the Anti-Federalists around to supporting ratification?

Question 1 options:

	a) The removal of Article II
	b) The removal of the 17th Amendment
	c) The addition of the Bill of Rights
	d) The addition of Article III

Question 2 (5 points)

What amendment protects property rights?

Question 2 options:

	a) 17th Amendment
	b) 1st Amendment
	c) 5th Amendment
	d) 7th Amendment

Question 3 (5 points)

What level of government did the Bill of Rights originally apply to?

Question 3 options:

	a) Federal
	b) Only Northern States
	c) State
	d) Local

Question 4 (5 points)

According to the Constitution as it was first put in place, what was the only federal office to be elected through direct popular election?

Question 4 options:

	a) The Senate
	b) The House of Representatives
	c) Federal judges
	d) The Presidency

Question 5 (5 points)

During the Constitutional Convention, what was the main disagreement involving slavery?

Question 5 options:

	a) Whether or not to grant citizenship to slaves
	b) Whether or not to abolish slavery
	c) Whether or not to allow slavery in Northern states
	d) How to count slaves in terms of representation and taxation

Question 6 (5 points)

Which branch of government has power over passing taxes?

Question 6 options:

	a) Judicial
	b) Temporal
	c) Executive
	d) Legislative

Question 7 (5 points)

The writers of the Constitution used the term ________ for a form of government that consists of carefully designed institutions that are responsive to the majority but not captive to it.

Question 7 options:

	a) majoritarianism
	b) republic
	c) federalism
	d) democracy

Question 8 (5 points)

Which of the following founding fathers would not be considered a federalist?

Question 8 options:

	a) Alexander Hamilton
	b) John Jay
	c) James Madison
	d) Thomas Jefferson

Question 9 (5 points)

Why does government, by its very nature, have the ability to threaten liberty?

Question 9 options:

	a) Government has coercive power.
	b) Government can declare war.
	c) Government is unconstitutional.
	d) Government is voted in by the majority.

Question 10 (5 points)

What term refers to a government that’s subject to strict legal limits on the use of power?

Question 10 options:

	a) Authoritarian
	b) Democratic
	c) Limited
	d) Representative

Question 11 (5 points)

With the ratification of the Constitution in the United States, who had the power to select US senators?

Question 11 options:

	a) The judicial branch
	b) The common voters
	c) State legislatures
	d) The President

Question 12 (5 points)

Why did the federal government under the Articles of Confederation have difficulty raising money?

Question 12 options:

	a) It couldn’t levy taxes.
	b) Taxes were illegal.
	c) Britain was demanding was reparations.
	d) The country was in a deep economic depression.

Question 13 (5 points)

What compromise came out of the fight over how to count slaves for purposes of taxation and representation?

Question 13 options:

	a) The Slavery Compromise
	b) The Virginia Plan
	c) The Three-Fifths Compromise
	d) The Great Compromise

Question 14 (5 points)

What plan proposed during the Constitutional Convention would create a bicameral legislature?

Question 14 options:

	a) The Connecticut Plan
	b) The Virginia Plan
	c) The New Jersey Plan
	d) The New York Plan

Question 15 (5 points)

The requirement for a search warrant before police can search a house would be part of what amendment to the Constitution?

Question 15 options:

	a) 1st
	b) 4th
	c) 3rd
	d) 2nd

Question 16 (5 points)

What’s the topic of Article V of the Constitution?

Question 16 options:

	a) The Executive Branch
	b) Amending the Constitution
	c) The Judicial Branch
	d) Federalism

Question 17 (5 points)

What’s a check that the judicial branch would have on a president’s power?

Question 17 options:

	a) Refusing to fund executive programs
	b) Removing a president from office
	c) Declaring an executive action unlawful
	d) Blocking an executive order through the courts

Question 18 (5 points)

In American government, what role does the president have in law making?

Question 18 options:

	a) The president can introduce legislation.
	b) The president can filibuster laws.
	c) The president can interpret laws.
	d) The president can veto acts of Congress.

Question 19 (5 points)

What is meant by representative government?

Question 19 options:

	a) A government where the executive branch would select the representatives in Congress
	b) A government in which the people rule through their representatives
	c) A government that has a fixed number of representatives
	d) A government where the courts pick the representatives

Question 20 (5 points)

During the Constitutional Convention, what kind of state would prefer the Virginia Plan?

Question 20 options:

	a) A southern state
	b) A small population state
	c) A northern state
	d) A large population state