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Major contributors to social contract theory – correct answer ✅Hobbes,
Locke, Reasseau
Social Contract Theory – correct answer ✅We need food, clothing and
shelter to survive, and nothing should interfere with our ability to obtain
them. We may also choose to believe in a god. The belief gives definition to
our existance. Therefore, it is important we define ourselves as individuals.
Enlightenment Influence on Constitution – correct answer ✅Bill of Rights
and the Second Amendment, Ninth Amendment
Bill of Rights (Enlightenment) – correct answer ✅The first eight Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence (Enlightenment) – correct answer ✅people
have rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Articles of Confederation weaknesses – correct answer ✅No executive, no
judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade
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Articles of Confederation – Strengths – correct answer ✅Provided direction
for the Revolution, the ability to conduct diplomacy with Europe, and deal
with territorial issues and Native American relations.
New Jersey Plan – correct answer ✅The proposal at the Constitutional
Convention that called for equal representation of each state in Congress
regardless of the state’s population.
Virginia Plan – correct answer ✅Proposal to create a strong national
government
Constitutional Convention – correct answer ✅A meeting in Philadelphia in
1787 that produced a new constitution
Three-Fifths compromise – correct answer ✅Agreement that each slave
counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the
House for representation and taxation purposes (negated by the 13th
amendment). Bicameral congress.
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Checks and Balances – correct answer ✅A system that allows each branch of
government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent
abuse of power
Separation of Powers – correct answer ✅Constitutional division of powers
among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with the legislative
branch making law, the executive applying and enforcing the law, and the
judiciary interpreting the law
Federalists – correct answer ✅A term used to describe supporters of the
Constitution during ratification debates in state legislatures.
Anti-Federalists – correct answer ✅Opponents of the American Constitution
at the time when the states were contemplating its adoption.
Ratifying the Constitution – correct answer ✅Article VII, 9 out of 13 states
had to agree, it was ratified at state conventions
Federalist #10 (factions) – correct answer ✅Elites can never take over rule of
the government due to too many factions.
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Federalist #51 (Madison) – correct answer ✅Separation of powers, checks
and balances
Separations of Powers – correct answer ✅The division of the federal
government into three branches each with its own powers
Government Branches – correct answer ✅Three sections of the US
government: legislative, executive, and judicial. Each branch has powers that
restrict the other branches powers.
How are laws made and enforced using the separation of powers – correct
answer ✅Congress originates laws
Judicial branch reviews laws for constitutionality
Executive branch enforces laws
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Major contributors to social contract theory – correct answer ✅Hobbes,
Locke, Reasseau
Social Contract Theory – correct answer ✅We need food, clothing and
shelter to survive, and nothing should interfere with our ability to obtain
them. We may also choose to believe in a god. The belief gives definition to
our existance. Therefore, it is important we define ourselves as individuals.
Enlightenment Influence on Constitution – correct answer ✅Bill of Rights
and the Second Amendment, Ninth Amendment
Bill of Rights (Enlightenment) – correct answer ✅The first eight Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence (Enlightenment) – correct answer ✅people
have rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Articles of Confederation weaknesses – correct answer ✅No executive, no
judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade
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Articles of Confederation – Strengths – correct answer ✅Provided direction
for the Revolution, the ability to conduct diplomacy with Europe, and deal
with territorial issues and Native American relations.
New Jersey Plan – correct answer ✅The proposal at the Constitutional
Convention that called for equal representation of each state in Congress
regardless of the state’s population.
Virginia Plan – correct answer ✅Proposal to create a strong national
government
Constitutional Convention – correct answer ✅A meeting in Philadelphia in
1787 that produced a new constitution
Three-Fifths compromise – correct answer ✅Agreement that each slave
counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the
House for representation and taxation purposes (negated by the 13th
amendment). Bicameral congress.
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Checks and Balances – correct answer ✅A system that allows each branch of
government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent
abuse of power
Separation of Powers – correct answer ✅Constitutional division of powers
among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with the legislative
branch making law, the executive applying and enforcing the law, and the
judiciary interpreting the law
Federalists – correct answer ✅A term used to describe supporters of the
Constitution during ratification debates in state legislatures.
Anti-Federalists – correct answer ✅Opponents of the American Constitution
at the time when the states were contemplating its adoption.
Ratifying the Constitution – correct answer ✅Article VII, 9 out of 13 states
had to agree, it was ratified at state conventions
Federalist #10 (factions) – correct answer ✅Elites can never take over rule of
the government due to too many factions.
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Federalist #51 (Madison) – correct answer ✅Separation of powers, checks
and balances
Separations of Powers – correct answer ✅The division of the federal
government into three branches each with its own powers
Government Branches – correct answer ✅Three sections of the US
government: legislative, executive, and judicial. Each branch has powers that
restrict the other branches powers.
How are laws made and enforced using the separation of powers – correct
answer ✅Congress originates laws
Judicial branch reviews laws for constitutionality
Executive branch enforces laws
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Powers under the Articles of Confederation – correct answer ✅1. Could
exchange Ambassadors.
- Make treaties with foreign governments and Indian Tribes
- Declare War
- Borrow Money
- Settle disputes among States
Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation – correct answer ✅no power to
tax,
President lacked power,
no money to buy ships
no money pay soldiers
no national judiciary
New Jersey Plan – correct answer ✅William Paterson
Three Branches of Government
The states had the power
Every state had one vote
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one chamber legislature, unicameral
Supremacy clause “Law of the Land”
Virginia Plan – correct answer ✅James Madison
Three Branches of government
Two-chamber in a legislative
Bicameral legislature:
House: elected by the people
Senate: appointed by the legislature
Votes based on population
Could tax, regulate trade, veto down state laws, create an army
The Great Compromises – correct answer ✅1. combined the two ideas from
the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey plan.
- The 3/5 slavery ruling
- Slave owners could reclaim their slaves in states where they had fled.
- Slaves could only be freed if they were born in the US and was over the
age of 28
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Articles of Confederation with a Congress – correct answer ✅1.
representation based on the population
- the the weak national government and a strong states
Federalists – correct answer ✅supporters of the Constitution
Anti-Federalists – correct answer ✅people who opposed the Constitution
Federalist Paper #10 – correct answer ✅Written by James Madison to
convince people to support the ratification of the constitution. Argued that
factions were inevitable but were best controlled by a large republic that
employed a Federalist structure. Argued that competition among factions
would limit their negative impacts.
Federalist Paper # 51 – correct answer ✅•Written by James Madison
•Defines the relationship among the three branches of government as
independent.
WGU c963 politics OA test (with solutions) 2023
- I can identify areas of the Constitution that are influenced by the
enlightenment. – correct answer ✅The Constitution makes justice more
important than liberty. more concerned with controlling rather than
expressing popular will Property rights republicanism separation of powers - I can identify areas of the Bill of Rights that are influenced by the
enlightenment – correct answer ✅natural rights and procedural rights.1st
amendment - I can list several weaknesses of the Articles of Confederations. – correct
answer ✅, the states had more power than the national government, which
served to weaken the national government and prevent it from making
effective decisions - I can list several characteristics of the New Jersey Plan. – correct answer
✅. Equal representation all SMALL state, unicameral, state base, Articles of
Confederation - I can list several characteristics of the Virginia Plan – correct answer
✅Greater representation LARGE state, strong national
government ,bicameral, population base
WGU c963 politics OA test (with solutions) 2023
I can describe the major compromises that occurred during the
Constitutional Convention. – correct answer ✅The Great Compromise
settled the debate between the large states and small states over state
representation in the legislative branch.
legislature – correct answer ✅A group of people who have the power to
make laws, Power to approve treaties, deal with international trade
executive – correct answer ✅Commander-in-chief of the armed forces,
power to carry out the laws of the land, power to pardon
judicaiary – correct answer ✅Power to ensure that laws agree with the
Constitution
Federalist’s views – correct answer ✅Federalists favored a strong central
government
Anti-Federalist’s views – correct answer ✅favored strong state governments.