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(C) The relationship between the legislative (lawmaking) and the executive (law-executing) branches of the government. 9. True/False. The US has a Presidential system of democracy because the Chief Executive is elected separately from the legislature. (A) In a Parliamentary type of democracy the Chief Executive is called a Prime Minister and is chosen from the legislature. 10. True/False. The US economic system is said to be a mixed economy due to the fact that it includes free markets principles that are regulated by government regulatory agencies. Chapter 2 Qrigias of American Government 11. The North American British colonies are said to have inherited 3 basic concepts of government from Britain itself. Which of those three is missing below? A. Representative Government B. limited Government C. Ordered Government D. In the space below, explain the difference between a Royal Charter, a Proprietary Charter, and a regular Charter. A Royal Charter was used in 8 out of the 13 colonies. It gave the King the greatest amount of control over the colonies. Proprietary charters were used in 3 of the original colonies such as Pennsylvania. In a Proprietary colony the king gave someone permission to oversee the colony and essentially have a large hand in governing. A regular charter colony was charter the gave the colonists the greatest amount of self-rule. Only two states used this type of charter. NOTE: DUE TO THE 3000 MILES IN BETWEEN LONDON AND NORTH AMERICA,ALL OF THE COLONIES DID OPERATE WITH A SUBSTANTIAL DEGREE OF SELF OVERNANCE. 12. What is the significance of such historic landmarks documents such as the Magna Carta, Petition of Right, and the English Bill of Rights? The historic landmark documents listed above all contains elements of limited government which would later influence the writing of the US Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights. A. What was the name of Benjamin Franklin’s first proposal that would have brought about greater colonial unity had it been accepted by the crown at the outbreak of the French and Indian War? Ben Franklin’s proposal was called the Albany Plan of Union and is one of the earliest examples of an event the brought the colonies towards a bit more unity in spite of the fact that it wasn’t approved by the Crown. 13. The Declaration of Independence includes the foundational American concepts that people have natural rights and have the right to abolish forms of government that are abusive. « It also stresses the people are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. » What does most of the Declaration of Independence (the document itself) go on to criticize? - The Declaration spends 2/3rds of itself enumerating all the wrongs done to the colonies by the British Crown. 14. Ben Franklin was the oldest member of the Constitutional Convention which he claimed produced a governing document that was near perfect as possible considered the varied interests of those in attendance. 2
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