1. Government & Economics Review Round I

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3. King John agreed to this document in 1215 at the demand of his barons, granting certain civil rights and liberties to English nobles and to all "freemen"

4. What is the Magna Carta? Click Anywhere to Continue

5. This is a system of social, economic and political organization in a monarch shares power with nobility

6. What is Feudalism? Click Anywhere to Continue

7. This bicameral legislative body is composed of House of Lords and House of Commons

8. What is Parliament? Click Anywhere to Continue

9. charter In colonial times, this document granted land to a person or company along with the right to found a colony on that land.

10. What is a charter? Click Anywhere to Continue

11. This principle states that both those who govern and the governed must obey the law

12. What is the rule of law? Click Anywhere to Continue

13. This is a writ that gave a governmental authority the power to search and seize property without restrictions

14. What is a writ of assistance? Click Anywhere to Continue

15. This line from a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem describing the global effect of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War

16. What is the “shot heard ‘round the world”? Click Anywhere to Continue

17. This important American victory in the Revolutionary War which prevented the British from splitting the colonies in two

18. What is the Battle of Saratoga ? Click Anywhere to Continue

19. This formal agreement which ended the Revolutionary War

20. What is the Treaty of Paris? Click Anywhere to Continue

21. This court order is Latin for "You should have the body." to determine whether that prisoner's detention is lawful.

22. What is the writ of habeas corpus ? Click Anywhere to Continue

23. This a condition in which no governments or laws existed at all.

24. What is the state of nature? Click Anywhere to Continue

25. The rights all people have just because they are human beings.

26. What are natural rights? Click Anywhere to Continue

27. According to Locke, the power of legitimate government comes from the governed providing this.

28. What is consent? Click Anywhere to Continue

29. This phrase describes the agreement with others to create and live under a government and give that government the power to make and enforce laws.

30. What is social contract? Click Anywhere to Continue

31. According to Locke, this is to protect natural rights that the individual cannot effectively

32. What is the purpose of government? Click Anywhere to Continue

33. A country in which power is held by the people who elect representatives is said to have this form of government

34. What is a republic? Click Anywhere to Continue

35. This is a form of government the people themselves control government by voting on all matters

36. What is direct democracy? Click Anywhere to Continue

37. This is the idea that citizens and their leaders were willing to set aside their private interests and personal concerns for the common good which allows republican to work

38. What is civic virtue? Click Anywhere to Continue

39. The good of the community as a whole, as contrasted with private interests that may conflict with public interest.

40. What is the common good? Click Anywhere to Continue

41. This “–ism” comes from ancient Greek/Roman city- states the responsibility of citizens for the well-being of their country.

42. What is classical republicanism? Click Anywhere to Continue

43. The system used to determine the number of each state's representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives

44. What is proportional representation? Click Anywhere to Continue

45. Any legislative branch that has two separate bodies is said to be this

46. What is bicameral? Click Anywhere to Continue

47. This clause, Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution gives Congress implied powers.

48. What is the “necessary and proper” clause? Click Anywhere to Continue

49. This word can be used as a noun meaning “a person chosen to act for or represent others” or a verb meaning “To entrust someone to represent your interests”.

50. What is delegate? Click Anywhere to Continue

51. This plan combined elements of the VA and NJ Plans by creating two houses of Congress; the upper house by equal representation and the lower by proportion

52. What is the Great Compromise or Connecticut Compromise? Click Anywhere to Continue