civics final 2003
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- The type of government practiced in the United States?
- Representative Democracy
- The document which lists the reasons the American colonists wanted to break away from England and be a free country?
- Declaration of Independence
- The name of the United States' first written plan of government?
- Article s of Confederation
- Term that describes a system where the powers of government are divided between the national, stat, and local levels?
- Federalism
- Type of government in which the people elext representatives to the government?
- Representative Democracy
- In which famous U S document is the following passage found, "all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."?
- Declaration of Independence
- Type of government where one leader has total power and they gain their postion of power by birth into a royal family:
- Monarchy
- Type of government where one leader has total pwer and they gain their position of pwer illegally, often by force
- Dictatorship
- Type of government where a small group of people rule:
- Oligarchy
- The branch of government that enforces or carrries out laws
- Executive
- Branch of government that reviews or interprets laws, punished lawbreakers, or determines if laws are unconstitutional:
- Judicial
- Branch of government that makes laws
- Legislative
- Name of the first ten amendments to the the U S Constitution
- Bill of rights
- The preamble is
- the introduction to the Constitution
- Term that describes a system in which each branch of government watches ober the others to keep one branch from misusing or gaining too much power
- Checks and balances
- The division of roles between the three branches of government is called
- Separation of powers
- The head of the House of Representatives
- Speaker
- The government official that signs a bill into law
- President
- The house of Representatives and Senate together known as
- Congress
- Each state is represented by _____ U S senators
- 2
- Discussion by legislators in Congress to support or oppose a bill:
- Debate
- U S House of Representatives serve how many years in one term of office
- 2
- What is the first step in the process of lawmaking in Congress
- a member of congress writes and introduces the bill