CSU AFRS 161 - Essential components of U.S. democracy

BELOW ARE THIRTY (30) NUMBERED MATCHING ITEMS. PLEASE MATCH EACH ITEM WITH ONE OF THE ALPHABETIZED ITEMS WHICH FOLLOW THE NUMBERED LIST.

_______ 101. Essential components of U.S. democracy and government

_______ 102. Federalism versus confederation

_______ 103. Political Science

_______ 104. Interest group politics, federalism/compromise, majority rule,

electoral processes.

_______ 105. Constitutional and Republican

_______ 106. 19th amendment

_______ 107. 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments

_______ 108. 6th amendment

_______ 109. 1st amendment

_______ 110. Republican Democracy

_______ 111 Enfranchisement, Suffrage

_______ 112. Restricted franchise

_______ 113. U.S. Congress

_______ 114. Politics

_______ 115. The central aim of U.S. government--and any other

government—at all levels

_______ 116. Democracy, oligarchy, theocracy, monarchy, autocracy

______ 117. Status quo; Quid pro quo

_______ 118. Freedom from Want, from Fear, of Speech, and of Religion

______ 119. Normative and Objective Politics

______ 120. Prohibition against taxes, non-regulation of interstate commerce,

weak central government, non-authority to issue national

currency, etc.

______ 121. 3/5 compromise, Connecticut Plan, federalism

______ 122. Annapolis Convention, Virginia Plan, Shay’s Rebellion, New Jersey

Plan, Connecticut Compromise

______ 123. Executive Privilege, Impoundment, Veto

______ 124. The Articles of Confederation

______ 125. Sedition, Affirmative Action

______ 126. First locally elected assembly and beginnings of bicameralism

______ 127. Parliamentary, Constitutional and Republican

______ 128. 2nd Continental Congress

______ 129. Seven articles, each with 1-10 sections

______ 130. Tripartite, separation of equal governmental powers, checks and

balances

ANSWER OPTIONS

1. American Democracy

2. Weaknesses of The Articles Of Confederation

3. Women’s right to vote

4. Four essential freedoms of American democracy

5. Popular Consent, Majority Rule, Compromise, Equality of

Opportunity

6. Representative government that is based on electing candidates

to represent voter interests

7. Government by the consent of those governed, government by a

Small committee, and government by a religious group or order

8. A discipline within social science; a study of constituent

participation

9. How things should be and how they are

10. Engine, vehicle, fuel, and tires of American politics

11. Strong central government with shared powers with the states;

Weak central government dominated by autonomous states

12. America’s first official constitution

13. Freedom of speech, assembly, religion, of the press, and of

Political affiliation

14.. Voters must be at least 18-years old, have an established

residence, must not be a prison inmate, etc.

15. Treason and access to equal opportunity

16. Legally ended slavery, established a right of citizenship and

due process, and the right to vote for African Americans

17.. House of Representatives; U.S. Senate

18. To provide citizen services to its constituency, and to protect

and defend the interests of that constituency

19. The right to vote

20. The determination of who gets what, when they get it, how

much, and who makes that determination

21. Right to a speedy trial

22. How slaves are counted in the U.S. Constitution for southern

congressional apportionment; the establishment of federal

laws as dominant over state laws; and the division of duties,

powers and responsibilities for the Congress, the Presidency,

and the Judiciary

23. House of Burgesses, Jamestown, 1619

24. Famous compromises which led to the U.S. Constitution

25. Executive powers of the President

26. Legal (or literal) and what actually happens

27. 1775-1776, ratified 1781; 1787, ratified, 1788

28. Powers the Court derived from Marbury v. Madison and

McCulloch v.

29. America’s first three forms of government

30. Relationship of the three branches of U.S. government under

The U.S. Constitution