Exam 2: The Founding and the Constitution

The United States currently maintains an embargo against Cuba to prevent individuals or businesses from engaging in economic activities with this island nation.If the state of Florida decided to sign a free trade agreement with Cuba,Florida would be violating which part of the Constitution?

The framers of the Constitution sought to insulate the president from excessively democratic pressures through:

Compared to the confederation principle of the Articles of Confederation,federalism was a step toward:

Delegates from large states,such as Pennsylvania,were able to manipulate the procedures at the Constitutional Convention in order to achieve final adoption of the Virginia Plan with negligible amendment.

Which amendment or set of amendments contained in the Bill of Rights specifically places limits on the powers of Congress?

The Three-fifths Compromise established the principle,new in republican theory,that a man who lives among slaves had a greater share in the election of representatives than the man who did not.

During the Constitutional Convention,the motion to include a bill of rights was:

Why did the framers believe that a new constitution was necessary?

The framers developed four constitutional principles that prevent the threat of "excessive democracy": bicameralism,checks and balances,staggered terms of office,and indirect election.What are these principles,and how do they prevent the federal government from directly reflecting the will of the people?

In 2010,the Republican Party was able to retake majority control of the U.S.House of Representatives due to anger toward President Barack Obama and the recent passage of the Affordable Care Act.With majority control of the House,Republicans were able to pass a repeal of the Affordable Care Act,yet the Act remains law due to continued support in the Senate and the executive branch.The failure to overturn the Affordable Care Act reflects which component of the Constitution?

The framers of the Constitution crafted a system in which each branch of government had a distinctly different constituency.Some call this system a:

The question of counting slaves for purposes of representation was ultimately resolved by counting:

The framers intended an active and powerful government,so they included language to signify that the enumerated powers were meant to be a source of strength to the national government,not a limitation on it.This "elastic clause" is most commonly known as the:

The colonists organized and participated in the Boston Tea Party of 1773 as a response to:

The Eighteenth Amendment,having the dubious distinction of being the only constitutional amendment designed to deal directly with some substantive social problem and the only amendment to have been repealed,addressed the issue of:

The Constitution does not explicitly mention the principle of the separation of powers.

By dumping the East India Company's tea into Boston Harbor,Samuel Adams and his followers pressured the British into enacting a number of harsh reprisals that:

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

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

No principle was more widely shared among the framers of the American Constitution than the principle espoused by Baron de Montesquieu that: