Practice Questions: Chapters 2 and 3 Constitution Test

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in 1787 in what city?

Philadelphia

Article VI's supremacy clause is also called the "supreme law of the land." This concept relates to controversies arising between what?

national laws and state laws

The Constitutional Convention's final sticking point was the nature of the executive, which was solved by what?

the creating of the Electoral College

Which amendment says that "powers not delegated to the United States...nor prohibited by it [the Constitution] to the States, are reserved to the States...or to the people?

Tenth Amendment

Which of these was NOT a power granted to the Continental Congress by the Articles of Confederation?
a. start/end wars
b. enter into treaties and alliances
c.coining money
d. raise taxes
e. regulate Indian affairs

d. raise taxes

Article IV lists responsibilities states have to each other. For instance, a driver's license issued by one state must be recognized as legal and binding by another what?

state

James Madison helped write a series of articles in a New York newspaper, called the ____ papers, which defended the political system created during the Constitutional Convention.

Federalist

The national government depends MOST heavily on which kind of tax?

income tax

Delegates at the Constitutional Convention doubted that the people could wisely rule and wanted to replace democracy with a ______, in which officials would be chosen to act on the people's behalf.

republic

The US Constitution directly replaced which document?

Articles of Confederation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the equivalent of a national ________ rose to power in the 1920s.

police force

The Constitution's necessary and proper clause allows the national government to claim ______ powers, logical extensions of the powers explicitly granted to it.

implied

The parties stand for different principles with regards to federalism. Democrats prefer policies to be set by the national government. Conversely, Republicans dislike such ______ and endorse devolution, which involves returning powers to the states.

centralization

Cooperative federalism's central mechanisms were called grants-in-aid, where the national government passes funds to the ______ to administer programs.

states

Which concept involves the allocation of three domains of governmental action- law making, law execution, and law adjudication-into three distinct branches of government?

separation of powers

Shays's Rebellion was an armed insurrection consisting of ___ seeking to prevent collection of their debts by country courts.

farmers

Which president wanted to create a "Great Society" by building on the New Deal policies of FDR?

Lyndon Johnson

The massive economic crisis of the Great _______marked the end for dual federalism, where cooperative federalism emerged in its place.

Depression

Which statement is true about the Constitutional Convention?
a. The delegates' goal was to create the idea of manifest destiny
b. James Madison presided over the convention
c. activities took place in secret (Gag Rule)
d. delegates worked in cooperation w

C. activities took place in secret (Gag Rule)

In _____ federalism, national, state, and local levels clash and even battle with each other.

Competitive

The three levels of government rely on different types of _____ to fund their activities and policies.

taxation

Most governmental powers are shared among the various branches in a system of _____ and balances, in which each branch has ways to respond to, and if necessary, block the actions of the others.

Checks

Each of the fifty states has _____ votes in the US Senate.

two

Which of these is a power granted to both the national government and the states, also called a concurrent power.

regulating elections