Mid Term Study Guide Bring a #2 pencil to class on the day of the exam.

Please read the chapters and study the notes. Chapter 1 What is Government?

What is a Citizen?

Define Law

Which theory was influential in Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence?

Who is John Locke?

Know the 4 examples that make Democracy beneficial.

What is a unitary system?

What type of government is Autocracy?

What is Sovereignty?

Define Dictatorships

Define monarchy

Chapter 2 Define Constitution

What was the Magna Carta?

What is the Petition of Rights?

What is the English Bill of Rights?

What was the first permanent English colony?

What are the three different types of colonies?

What date was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

What was the Boston Massacre?

What was the Stamp Act?

Define Federalist and Anti-Federalist

Define Boycott

What is Rafication?

What was the Virginia Plan?

Chapter 3 What are the three branches of the government?

Which branch fall under article I?

Which branch fall under article II and III?

What are the duties for the legislative, executive and judicial branches?

What is a veto?

What is Judicial Review?

Define Amendment-

What are the Bill of Rights?

How many amendments are in the Constitution?

How many ways are there to amend an amendment?

What is an executive agreements?

Define Political Party

Define Unconstitutional

CHAPTER 8: Congress: Members and Elections

How many Senators does each state have?

How long is the term of a senator?

How many members does the House of Representatives have?

What are the two processes used to distribute seats in the House?

What reasons do supporters of term limits give for their belief?

What two ways does Congress discipline its members?

What is the term for the process of drawing district lines to benefit one group or another?

When does pro-incumbent gerrymandering take place?

What makes partisan gerrymandering possible?

What was the goal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act?

How old does one have to be to become a senator?

What is the franking privilege?

Why is life hard on the family of a member of Congress?

What is the key political asset for a potential candidate for Congress?

Which four questions should a candidate ask himself or herself when approaching an election strategically?

What circumstances led to exceptions to the midterm loss in 1998 and 2002?

What did the founders intend the difference between the Senate and House to be?

What occupations dominate Congress?

How much education have most members of Congress had? Why was 1992 called the Year of the Woman?

Why might major political parties begin to encourage Hispanics to run for Congress?

Why is it difficult to measure the impact of Hispanic legislators on specific issues?

CHAPTER 9: The Powers of Congress

Why is collecting taxes so important to the government? What are the limits on Congresss power to tax?

What amendment to the Constitution allows Congress to impose an income tax?

A national tax on gasoline is an example of what kind of tax?

Define the term budget deficit.

What do we call the total amount that the government owes? What is the difference between Congresss role in commerce under the Articles of Confederation and under the Constitution? How did the Supreme Court define commerce in its decision on Gibbons v. Ogden? What are the four restraints on Congresss power in commerce, according to the Constitution?

In what year did Congress establish the U.S. Mint?

Why did Congress create demand notes in 1861?

Who did the Continental Congress name the postmaster of the colonies?

Give four examples of things that can be copyrighted.

Which clause gives Congress the power to regulate trademarks?

With whom does Congress share treaty and war powers? Define the term naturalization.

What power allows Congress to take private property for public use?

What four crimes are listed in the Constitution

What group shifted their focus from fighting ratification of the Constitution to limiting the power of Congress?

How did Thomas Jefferson interpret the necessary and proper clause? Whose arguments convinced George Washington to allow Congress to create the First Bank of the United States? Why did several states begin taxing the national banks operations?

By what other name is the necessary and proper clause known and why?

Give three examples of topics of recently proposed constitutional amendments.

In what situation does the House of Representatives vote for president by state?

Which house of Congress conducts the trial of impeached officials?

What crime was Andrew Johnson impeached for? What was the result of Bill Clintons trial in the Senate?

What are the two executive powers given to the Senate by the Constitution?

Give three examples of congressional investigations.