c. Trying to come to an agreement on what rights to include
would tear the new country apart.
d. All states currently had their own bills of rights.
Answer: a
Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q1.5.25
Topic: To Adopt or Not to Adopt
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Evaluate the arguments for and
against ratiication of the Constitution.
Page Reference: 42 – 43
Skill Level: Analyze It
Diiculty Level: Diicult
26. What regions of the country tended to oppose ratiication of the
new Constitution?
a. urban areas
b. seaboard regions
c. backcountry regions from Maine through Georgia
d. southern states
Topic: To Adopt or Not to Adopt
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Evaluate the arguments for and
against ratiication of the Constitution.
Page Reference: 41
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
27. What was The Federalist?
a. a book written by George Washington explaining the reasons
for American independence
b. a book written by Thomas Jeferson while he was in Paris as
the U.S. ambassador to France
c. a device by the Antifederalists to encourage opposition to the
Annapolis Convention
d. a series of essays written to encourage ratiication of the
proposed Constitution
Topic: To Adopt or Not to Adopt
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Evaluate the arguments for and
against ratiication of the Constitution.
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Page Reference: 42
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
28. Why did Patrick Henry oppose ratiication of the new
Constitution?
a. He believed that the new Constitution would threaten liberty.
b. He was disappointed that the new Constitution did not
abolish slavery.
c. He believed that bicameralism was an ineicient form of
government.
d. He preferred equal representation for states in Congress.
Topic: To Adopt or Not to Adopt
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Evaluate the arguments for and
against ratiication of the Constitution.
Page Reference: 43 – 44
Skill Level: Analyze It
Diiculty Level: Diicult
29. Which country has a statist political system?
a. Germany
b. the United States
c. China
d. Mexico
Topic: Deining Democracy
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Diferentiate democracy from
other forms of government, and identify conditions conducive to
a successful democracy.
Page Reference: 26
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
30. How does the Constitution guard against tyranny of the
majority?
a. by insulating certain rights, such as freedom of speech
b. by giving states the power to nullify federal laws
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c. by requiring the Supreme Court to issue decisions supported
by public opinion
d. by requiring free and fair elections
Topic: Deining Democracy
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Diferentiate democracy from
other forms of government, and identify conditions conducive to
a successful democracy.
Page Reference: 29
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
True–False Questions
31. “Government by the people” means that everyone must be
involved in politics and policy making.
Topic: U.S. Government and Politicians in Context
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Use the concept of constitutional
democracy to explain U.S. government and politics.
Page Reference: 21
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
32. The ideal politician is a myth.
Topic: U.S. Government and Politicians in Context
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Use the concept of constitutional
democracy to explain U.S. government and politics.
Page Reference: 21 – 22
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
33. Initiatives and referendums are not permitted in all states.
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Topic: Deining Democracy
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Diferentiate democracy from
other forms of government, and identify conditions conducive to
a successful democracy.
Page Reference: 22
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
34. Free and fair elections mean that all people have equal political
inluence.
Topic: Deining Democracy
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Diferentiate democracy from
other forms of government, and identify conditions conducive to
a successful democracy.
Page Reference: 29
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
35. Aristotle was the political philosopher who irst rejected the
idea that kings have a divine right to rule.
Topic: Deining Democracy
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Diferentiate democracy from
other forms of government, and identify conditions conducive to
a successful democracy.
Page Reference: 24
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
36. The word “democracy” can be found in the U.S. Constitution.
Topic: Deining Democracy
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Diferentiate democracy from
other forms of government, and identify conditions conducive to
a successful democracy.
Page Reference: 22
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
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37. Self-determination means that all individuals have the
opportunity to realize their own goals.
Topic: Deining Democracy
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Diferentiate democracy from
other forms of government, and identify conditions conducive to
a successful democracy.
Page Reference: 25
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
38. Most delegates at the Constitutional Convention favored
limiting voting rights to
white male landowners.
Topic: The Constitutional Convention of 1787
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Assess the important
compromises reached by the delegates to the Constitutional
Convention of 1787.
Page Reference: 37
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
Fill–in–the–Blank Questions
39. Political scientists use the term __________ to refer to the widely
shared beliefs, values, and norms citizens hold about their
relationship to government and to one another.
Topic: Deining Democracy
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Diferentiate democracy from
other forms of government, and identify conditions conducive to
a successful democracy.
Page Reference: 25
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
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40. Many of our political values come together in the __________, a
complex set of ideas that holds that the United States is a land
of opportunity where individual initiative and hard work can
bring economic success.
Topic: Deining Democracy
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Diferentiate democracy from
other forms of government, and identify conditions conducive to
a successful democracy.
Page Reference: 26 – 27
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
41. __________ wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, a document
that served as a model for other states and for the Bill of Rights
in the U.S. Constitution.
Topic: The Roots of the American Constitutional Experiment
Learning Objective: LO 1.3: Show how politics before 1787
shaped the Constitution.
Page Reference: 34
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
42. __________—the principle of the two-house legislature—relected
delegates’ belief in the need for balanced government.
Topic: The Constitutional Convention of 1787
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Assess the important
compromises reached by the delegates to the Constitutional
Convention of 1787.
Page Reference: 38
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
43. The __________ Plan would have created a strong national
government and given disproportionate power to the more
populous states.
Topic: The Constitutional Convention of 1787
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Assess the important
compromises reached by the delegates to the Constitutional
Convention of 1787.
Page Reference: 38
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
44. The __________ Compromise was a setback for the large states,
which agreed to it only when the smaller states made it clear
this was their price for union.
Topic: The Constitutional Convention of 1787
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Assess the important
compromises reached by the delegates to the Constitutional
Convention of 1787.
Page Reference: 39 – 40
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
Short Answer Questions
45. Identify three requirements of a constitutional democracy.
1. Indicate that constitutional democracies require the
protection of the rights and opinions of others and that the
democratic process relects liberty, equality, and justice.
2. Note that constitutional democracies require the
government to represent the people.
3. Explain that constitutional democracies require free
and fair elections.
Topic: U.S. Government and Politicians in Context
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Use the concept of constitutional
democracy to explain U.S. government and politics.
Page Reference: 21 – 22
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
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