• What happened Eight years ago today?

• What are the First Ten Amendments of the Constitution called?

• What is the difference between representative and direct democracy?

Explain the four theories that have traditionally been given to the question of who governs.

1. Marxist2.Elitist3.Bureaucratic4.Pluralist

1. What is the difference between Power and Political Power?

2. What is the difference between Authority and Legitimacy?

Found in Chapter 1

1. Summarize what why the Colonists wanted to separate from England, “The Colonial Mind.” Pages 18-19

• What is an unalienable right? (19)

• Why was the Articles of Confederation weak? (21)

• Why is Shay’s Rebellion significant? (23)

• What does Federalism mean? (28)

• What does Judicial Review mean? (28)

• What are enumerated powers? (29)

• What are reserved powers? (29)

• What are concurrent powers? (29)

• DEFINE:– Constitutional

Convention (22)– Virginia Plan (25)– New Jersey Plan

(26)– Great

Compromise (26)– Republic (27)

• What is a Federalist? (30)

• What is an Anti-Federalist? (30)

• What is a Faction? (30)

• What is a coalition? (34)

• What does habeas corpus mean? (35)

• What does bill of attainder mean? (35)

• What is ex post facto law? (35)

– What is an Amendment (42)

– What is a Line-Item Veto (43)

– Which Plan influenced the US Constitution more than the other, The New Jersey Plan or the Virginia Plan?

• What was the 3/5 Compromise? (37)

1. Why did the Framers at first not put a Bill of Rights into the US Constitution? (35)

• What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? (21)

• What were the THREE provisions in the Constitution regarding Slavery? Why didn’t the Founders abolish slavery? (37)

• Define: page 102– Due process of law– Equal protection of

the law– Selective

incorporation– Freedom of

expression– Freedom of religion

• What do you think this quote means? “Freedom of Speech versus preservation of public order?”

• What is prior restraint? (103)

• What is the clear-and-present-danger test? (103)

• What is the difference between libel and slander? (105)