Exam 2: the Constitution

Sonal is eating dinner with her family when the police enter and begin to search her home.The police do not have a warrant and will not tell Sonal what they are looking for.In this instance,Sonal is primarily protected by ____________________.

A business in North Carolina has a legal dispute with a business in New York,yet each party is behaving legally according to their own states' laws.How does the Constitution anticipate conflicts like this?

Which proposal made to the Constitutional Convention resolved the conflict between supporters of greater national power and advocates of greater state sovereignty?

Would political scientists be likely to applaud the constitutional framers' choice of a presidential system?

Which establishes the formal institutions of government and declares how and under what circumstances government may legitimately use its powers?

Which is an enumerated power listed in Article I,Section 8,of the U.S.Constitution that empowers Congress to regulate "Commerce with foreign Nations,and among the several states,and with the Indian Tribes?"

Benjamin Franklin supported the Constitution because he believed it provided an effective remedy for the problems facing the United States under the Articles of Confederation.Benjamin Franklin is,therefore,best considered a/an ____________________.

Which of the following are NOT included in the Bill of Rights?

What are the "separation of powers" and "checks and balances"? How are these sets of institutional arrangements related? How are they distinct? How are the separation of powers and checks and balances put into effect in the United States Constitution?

When deciding what policy areas Congress is allowed to act on,twentieth-century Courts have primarily used ____________________ as a guide,because they interpret it to mean ____________________.

Which constitutional provision states that Congress may create whatever laws are "necessary and proper" in order to execute other enumerated powers?

What proportion of states must approve an amendment to the U.S.Constitution proposed by Congress for that amendment to be ratified?

Shays's Rebellion highlighted weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation,most notably ____________________.

A bicameral legislature is composed of ____________________ houses or chambers.

A unicameral legislature is composed of ____________________ houses or chambers.

Compared to either the Virginia Plan or the Connecticut Compromise,what did the New Jersey Plan propose?

What was the primary issue in the debates between the Federalists and the Antifederalists over the United States Constitution? What was the Federalist perspective? What was the Antifederalist perspective? What major set of concessions were the Antifederalists able to extract from the Federalists during and after the ratification debates?

The Electoral College represents a compromise between those who wanted ____________________ to select the president and those who thought the president should be selected by ____________________.

Why was the Constitutional Convention called?

Which institution created by the U.S.Constitution is most clearly related to resolving the coordination problems involved in selecting someone to serve as president?