1. 1st Quarter EQT Review
Civics

2. What are the three main forms of government?
Dictatorship, monarchy, democracy

3. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy, while King Albert II of Belgium is a constitutional monarch. What is the difference?
Abdullah has complete authority, but Albert’s power is limited

4. Which are the ways to become a U.S. citizen?
Born in U.S. or territories, one or more parents is a citizen, become naturalized, under 18 when parents are naturalized

5. “Consent of the governed” gives power to whom?
Citizens or the people

6. Which are the duties of a U.S. citizen?
Obey the law, defend the nation, serve as witness or on a jury, pay taxes, attend school

7. What ideas or documents influenced the colonists?
Athens’ direct democracy, Rome’s republic, England’s limits on its king (Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights), John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu

8. What was the purpose of the Magna Carta? Who benefitted?
Limited the king’s power. The nobles

9. What ideas did Locke give the colonists? Montesquieu?
Natural rights and the separation of powers

10. What is the name for Montesquieu’s idea of a three branch government?
Separation of powers

11. According to Locke, what are citizens’ three rights?
Life, liberty, property

12. Why did the First Continental Convention meet?
Revise the Articles of Confederation

13. According to the Declaration of Independence, governments derives their power from whom?
Consent of the governed

14. Who was the main author of the Declaration?
Thomas Jefferson

15. What does the Declaration say people should do if the government stops protecting their rights?
Attempt to alter or abolish the government

16. Under the Articles of Confederation, who had most of the power?
States

17. What did many delegates at the Constitutional Convention fear a strong government would do?
Abuse power

18. What issues did the Great Compromise settle?
The number of representatives in the House and Senate

19. What is the name for the seven sections that the Constitution is organized into?
Articles

20. What two things did the Framers want the Supreme Court to do?
Interpret laws and settle conflicts among the states

21. Who got executive power under the Constitution?
One President

22. What are the goals of the Constitution (in the Preamble)?
Form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for common defense, promote general welfare, secure the blessings of liberty

23. Which branch of state and federal government makes laws?
Legislative

24. What do first three articles of the Constitution describe?
The branches of government

25. Which branch of government can declare a law unconstitutional?
Judicial

26. Which branch of government carries out the laws?
Executive

27. What idea is the Constitution based on?
Popular sovereignty

28. Which clause in the Preamble refers to replacing a weak national government?
To form a more perfect union

29. How can the executive branch do to limit the power of the legislative branch?
Vetoing an act passed by Congress

30. What does the “due process” clause of the 5th Amendment mean?
Accused people will be treated fairly under the law

31. Why did James Madison want Congress to prepare a bill of rights quickly?
To earn the people’s trust

32. How can an amendment be ratified?
State legislatures or state conventions

33. What rights does the 1st Amendment protect?
Individual freedoms - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition the government

34. What do accused persons have the right to?
Trial by jury, bail, remain silent

35. What does the 5th amendment protect?
Rights of accused people

36. How does the Bill of Rights make citizens’ rights difficult to interpret?
It is a broad description of rights

37. Which branch of government examines laws and determines how they should be applied?
Courts

38. Define “revenue.”
Money collected by the government

39. When was the Alabama Constitution written?
1901

40. What state has the longest constitution in the world?
Alabama

41. Most U.S. immigrants today come from Mexico. On which continent is it?
North America