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WGU C963 - Objective Assessment
Superset, Exam Questions and answers,
100% Accurate. Verified.

Major contributors to social contract theory - ✔✔-Hobbes, Locke, Reasseau


Social Contract Theory - ✔✔-We need food, clothing and shelter to survive and nothing should interfere
with our ability to obtain them. We may also choose to believe in a god. The belief gives definition to
our existance. Therefore it is important we define ourselves as individuals.


Enlightenment Influence on Constitution - ✔✔-Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment, Ninth
Amendment


Bill of Rights (Enlightenment) - ✔✔-The first eight Bill of Rights


Declaration of Independence (Enlightenment) - ✔✔-people have rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness


Articles of Confederation weaknesses - ✔✔-No executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to
regulate trade


Articles of Confederation - Strengths - ✔✔-Provided direction for the Revolution, the ability to conduct
diplomacy with Europe, and deal with territorial issues and Native American relations.


New Jersey Plan - ✔✔-The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for equal
representation of each state in Congress regardless of the state's population.


Virginia Plan - ✔✔-Proposal to create a strong national government


Constitutional Convention - ✔✔-A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution


Three-Fifths compromise - ✔✔-Agreement that each slave counted as three-fifths of a person in
determining representation in the House for representation and taxation purposes (negated by the 13th
amendment). Bicameral congress.

,Checks and Balances - ✔✔-A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the
other branches in order to prevent abuse of power


Separation of Powers - ✔✔-Constitutional division of powers among the legislative, executive, and
judicial branches, with the legislative branch making law, the executive applying and enforcing the law,
and the judiciary interpreting the law


Federalists - ✔✔-A term used to describe supporters of the Constitution during ratification debates in
state legislatures.


Anti-Federalists - ✔✔-Opponents of the American Constitution at the time when the states were
contemplating its adoption.


Ratifying the Constitution - ✔✔-Article VII, 9 out of 13 states had to agree, it was ratified at state
conventions


Federalist #10 (factions) - ✔✔-Elites can never take over rule of the government due to too many
factions.


Federalist #51 (Madison) - ✔✔-Separation of powers, checks and balances


Separations of Powers - ✔✔-The division of the federal government into three branches each with its
own powers


Government Branches - ✔✔-Three sections of the US government: legislative, executive, and judicial.
Each branch has powers that restrict the other branches powers.


How are laws made and enforced using the separation of powers - ✔✔-Congress originates laws


Judicial branch reviews laws for constitutionality


Executive branch enforces laws


system of checks and balances - ✔✔-Constitutional system in which each branch of government places
limits on the power of other branches

, Several checks the judicial branch has on the legislative and executive branches - ✔✔-Executive:
Can overturn actions of the president with judicial review if the actions violate the Constitution


Serve during good behavior to maintain independence of judiciary


Legislative:
Can overturn acts of Congress as unconstitutional if they violate the law


Can influence laws by interpretation


Serve during good behavior to maintain independence of judiciary


Several checks the legislative branch has on the judicial and executive branches - ✔✔-Judicial:
Senate must approve judges and justices


Controls jurisdiction of the courts


Determines size of Supreme Court


House can impeach judges and Senate can remove them by two-thirds vote


Executive:
Can override a presidential veto by a two-thirds vote in both chambers


Must approve treaties by a two-thirds vote in the Senate


Control of funding activities of the executive branch


Presidential nominees must be approved by the Senate


Only Congress can declare war

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