Eighteenth-century republican principles did not included: 

 Popular Sovereignty

 Fundamental principles of representative democracy did not include: 

 Property Rights

The separation of powers and checks and balances are constitutional provisions designed to protect against:  

 The Abuse of Power

 The 2000 presidential election showed that: 

 The United States is not a pure democracy.

 The unequal distribution of wealth in society threatens most directly the democratic principle of:  

Political Equality

 During the course of American history: 

 Support for democratic principles has increased and republican ones have decreased.

 Eighteenth-century republicanism was most concerned with:

 Combating tyranny and protecting individual rights.

 Thomas Jefferson drew heavily from writers such as _______________ when he wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights: 

 Adam Smith and John Locke

 The French philosopher Montesquieu believed that the best form of government was: 

 A mixed government with some elements of democracy combined with other non-democratic elements.

 The Magna Carta helped establish the principle that: 

 There were certain rights that even the king must respect.

 Under the original plan of the Constitution, the only officials who would be directly elected by the people were: 

 Members of the United States House of Representatives.

 Eighteenth-century republicans believed the role of the elected official was to: 

 Exercise independent judgment on how best to serve the publics interest.

   In "The Federalist Papers," James Madison wrote that ____________ "have   been spectacles of turbulence and contention ... and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.":  

 Democracies

 The authors do not credit the emergence of republicanism in the mid-to-late eighteenth century with: 

 Bringing about universal suffrage.

 The text cites 

as the purest form of democracy that ever existed:

 Ancient Athens

 Popular sovereignty means that:

 The ultimate source of public authority resides with the people.

 According to the text, __________________ is/are the best mechanism(s) for ensuring that leaders will be responsive to the people's wishes: 

 Periodic Elections

 Is the United States today much closer to being a true direct democracy than it was at its founding?

 No

 What do the eighteenth-century republicanism and the democratic ideals have in common?

 Government is based on poplar consent.

 Shay's Rebellion refers to: 

 Farmers in western Massachusetts fighting to keep the courts from foreclosing on their land.

 What is true about the Articles of Confederation is? 

 All statements are true.

 The central government created by the Articles of Confederation had the power to: 

 Make war and enter into peace treaties.

 "Stay Acts" were state laws that:

 Prohibited farm foreclosures for nonpayment of debt.

During the time of the Articles of Confederation, there was a growing concern on the part of many elites that some action was needed to protect the right to: 

Acquire and enjoy property.

 The Constitutional Convention was held in:

 1787

 What best describes the delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia? 

 The delegates were all well educates and familiar with the great works of wester philosophy and political science.

 In his book, AN ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION, the historical Charles Beard argued that: 

 The Constitution's framers were mainly interested in protecting their own economic interests.

 Under the Great Compromise, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed to: 

 Create a bicameral legislature composed of a House and Senate.

 Those favoring the New Jersey Plan wanted: 

 A system under which the states would remain sovereign.

What did the Constitution originally have to say about voting qualifications? 

 Voter qualifications were left for the states to decide.

 What did the original language of the Constitution say about slavery? 

 It prohibited Congress from restricting the slave trade until 1808.

 When the delegates at the Constitutional Convention created the Electoral College, most assumed that: 

 Electors would usually deadlock and the president would actually be chosen in the House of Representatives 

 The elastic clause is also referred to as the: 

 Necessary and proper clause

 Which amendment states that the powers not denied them by the Constitution or given solely to the national government are retained by the states?  

 The Tenth Amendment

 Under the original Constitution, only ___________ was/were chosen by popular election. 

 Members of the House of Representatives.

 The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution changed the way we choose: 

 Members of the Senate.

The checks and balances found in the Constitution reflected a growing concern among delegates over the possible abuse of power by:  

 Legislators 

The main concern the Founders had over a system based "too much upon the democratic order" was that such a system would not: 

 Provide adequate protection to property rights.

 What is true about the ratification of the Constitution is true? 

After ratification, even Anti-Federalists quickly came around to support the new form of government.