WarmUp

1
Warm-Up 1 1/27/09

• What if you woke up tomorrow and there was no
  government? What would life be like? How would
  you react?

2
Warm-Up 2 1/28/09

• Using Primary Sources on page 11, answer the
  following.
• According to Locke, what freedoms did people have
  before the founding of governments?
• According to Locke, how are govts formed?
• What trade-offs does Locke say occurs when people
  live under governments?

3
Quiz-1/29/09

• What are the three basic kinds of power that each
  government has and exercises?
• What are the four characteristics needed to be
  present for something to be considered a state?
• Which origins theory believes that states were
  developed naturally out of the early family?
• What is the difference between a government and a
  state?
• What is sovereign?

4
Quiz-2/3/09

• Give me one characteristic of free enterprise.
• The idea that the majority will be right most of
  the time would fall under what concept of
  democracy?
• The belief that the dignity and worth of the
  individual overrides democracy falls under which
  concept?
• List one example of how the government might
  interfere with the free market.
• List one example of how the government might
  promote the free market.

5
Quiz 2/4/09

• How is limited govt different than unlimited
  govt?
• What is a constitution?
• Name one disadvantage to having an unwritten
  constitution.
• According to Aristotle, what is the difference
  between a good and corrupt govt?
• Name one characteristic of a higher law.

6
Warm-Up 5 2/27/09

• Using the What is a Party? heading on page 116
  what you know, answer the following.
• What is a political party?
• What influence do you believe political parties
  have on our government?
• If you were to choose one political party right
  now, which one would it be and why?

7
Warm-Up 6 3/9/09

• Read Close-Up on page 136 and answer the
  Analyzing Questions at the bottom.

8
Warm-Up 7 3/10/09

• Read Close-Up on the Supreme Court on page 143
  and answer the following questions.
• Why were Wersal the Republican Party suing the
  Minnesota Board of Judicial Standards?
• Summarize the argument for Wersal the
  Republican Party.
• Summarize the argument for White.
• If you were a justice on the Supreme Court, who
  would you decide in favor of? Why?

9
Quiz-9/3/08

• What is the definition of a dictatorship?
• What is an example of a unitary type of
  government?
• Does a parliamentary government apply to the
  United States? Explain.
• What is the definition of a confederate type of
  government?
• Does a federal type of government apply to the
  United States? Explain.

10
Quiz-9/4/08

• What is a free enterprise system?
• Explain the law of supply demand.
• What is a mixed economy?
• Under what concept would majority will be right
  more often than wrong, majority must be willing
  to listen to the minoritys ideas, suggestions
  and criticisms go?
• Why is the necessity of compromise important in
  a democracy?

11
Quiz 9/5/08

• Which Enlightenment thinker believed in the
  separation of powers?
• Which Enlightenment thinker believed that some
  people would give up some rights for the benefit
  of the majority?
• Which thinker believed in life, liberty,
  property?
• What is Parliaments job?
• Name one difference between a direct democracy
  a republic.

12
Quiz

• Name one source for the information the Framers
  used in the Constitution.
• What did the federalists believe?
• Where did the framers of the Constitution meet?
• What type of states support the New Jersey Plan?
• What did the 3/5th Compromise say?

13
Quiz 9/17/08

• What is ratify?
• Who was elected the first president vice
  president?
• Name 2 states that would not ratify the
  Constitution unless a bill of rights was added.
• What did Antifederalists believe?
• Why was the support of New York Virginia
  important, even after 9 states had ratified the
  Constitution?