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Unit One: Foundations of Government

Common Writing Assessment: Document Based Question

Essential Questions

Chapter 1
  1. What is government and what is its purpose?
  2. What are some forms of government in the world today?
  3. What are the basic concepts of democracy?

Chapter 2
  1. What ideas and traditions influenced government in the English colonies?
  2. What events and ideas led to American independence?
  3. What weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation made a lasting government impossible?
  4. What compromises enabled the framers to create the Constitution?
  5. What issues aroused the vigorous debate over ratification of the U.S. Constitution?

Chapter 3
  1. What are the six main principles on which the Constitution is based?
  2. How has the Constitution been amended through the formal amendment process?
  3. How have the day-to-day workings of government affected how we interpret the Constitution?

Chapter 4
  1. How is power divided between the Federal Government and the States?
  2. According to the Constitution, what must the National Government guarantee to each State?
  3. How do the States work together to preserve the Union?

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Unit One Vocabulary Terms

Chapter 1
 Principles of Government

government

legislative power

executive power

judicial power

constitution

dictatorship

democracy

state

sovereign

autocracy

oligarchy

unitary government

federal government

division of powers

confederation

presidential government

parliamentary government

compromise

citizen
Chapter 2
 Origins of American Government

limited government

representative government

Magna Carta

due process

charter

bicameral

unicameral

delegate

Articles of Confederation

ratification

Framers

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan

Connecticut Compromise

Three-Fifths Compromise

Federalist

Anti-Federalist
Chapter 3
 The Constitution

popular sovereignty

limited government

constitutionalism

rule of law

separation of powers

checks and balances

veto

judicial review

unconstitutional

amendment

Bill of Rights

executive agreement

treaty
Chapter 4
 Federalism

federalism

delegated powers

expressed powers

implied powers

reserved powers

concurrent powers

Supremacy Clause

Full Faith and Credit Clause

extradition