Exam 2: The Founding and the Constitution

The Constitution grants the Supreme Court the unconditional right to grant reprieves and pardons.

The political significance of the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise was to:

In organizing the Boston Tea Party of 1773, radical colonial interests succeeded in their hope of _____________, a hope not shared by newfound allies from the New England merchant class.

A group known as the Antifederalists, including Richard Henry Lee and Patrick Henry of Virginia and George Clinton of New York, argued in writings against the new Constitution that:

Except for one, all of the amendments that have been added to the Constitution have passed in:

Since 2010, a conservative organization based in Florida has been pushing, and won support from legislatures in more than half the states, for a national convention of the states in order to pass a balanced budget amendment, and possibly others.This would be unusual in American history, if successful, because:

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was given the explicit power to appoint senior army officers, but not _____________.

The First Amendment to the Constitution was specifically concerned with limits on:

Besides the United States under the Articles of Confederation, what is another example of a confederate system of government in which the subunits of government retain sovereignty and virtually all government powers?

What strategies are built into the Constitution to prevent the abuse of power?

At some point in a future America, Congress calls for new U.S.Constitutional Convention.Once it begins, delegates start hashing out a new amendment for dealing with immigration, still a crucial, divisive issue.There is only one major sticking point: In agreeing to a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants now living in the country, southwestern states want concessions.One, delegates from the region assert, is having half of their undocumented, nonvoting immigrant population count as citizens for the purposes of congressional redistricting.In response, states with higher metropolitan area populations, and larger numbers of nonvoting foreign nationals with work visas, want their representation boosted as well.The result of such a compromise would be more congressional representation and greater Electoral College representation for the more Democratic-leaning northeastern and far western states, and Republican-leaning southwestern states. How would this scenario echo the effects of the Three-Fifths Compromise of the existing U.S.Constitution?

The terms of appointments for senators are staggered so that the terms of one-third of the senators expire every:

What was the primary concern of the Constitution of the Continental Congress of 1777?

One unforeseen consequence of the Revolutionary War was a weakening of the colonies' elite class.Many royalists, hit hard economically, left for Canada.This led to:

Under the Articles of Confederation, each state was represented in the Continental Congress in proportion to its population.

The Declaration of Independence was a political as well as a philosophical document in its focus on:

The Constitution grants the power to ratify treaties to the:

The bulk of the 15 amendments that have won ratification since the Bill of Rights have dealt with:

In the years after the Revolutionary War, radical populist forces gained power in some states and Congress, after some colonial elites lost power or moved to Canada.

Staggered terms of service in the Senate were intended to make that body even more politically responsive to popular opinion.