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| Which of the following makes a government's actions authoritative? |
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| A. legitimacy and a preponderance of force |
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| A government's legitimacy depends on... |
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| C. The willingness of its citizens to obey its decisions. |
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| Which of the following BEST characterizes how government deals with conflict? |
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| The wide variety of activities that constitute politics have one key characteristic in common. Identify it. |
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| D. They arise from conflict |
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| Identify the area(s) through which a government can force its citizens to comply with decisions and punish those who refuse to obey. |
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D. All of the above
(judicial institution, police, military institution) |
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| What are the two types of government rules? |
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| A. Structural and policy rules |
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| What is the term that identifies all of a government's policy rules taken together? |
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| Why can't a sitting president of the United States run for more than two terms? |
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| B. After FDR, an angry republican congress passed a congressional resolution establishing the two term limit |
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| The confederal system of government is best exemplified by the relationship between the |
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| D. United Nations and its member nations. |
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| One way in which the Constitution attempts to protect individual rights is by |
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| D. Discouraging the formation of permanent majorities. |
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| Which of the following is not an example of the principle of checks and balances? |
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| A. the national supremacy clause |
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| One paradox found in the origins of the constitution is that |
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| D. while its framers created a government based on the principle of majority rule, they dreaded tyranny by the majority. |
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| Which of the following features were included in the constitution to help prevent the formation of tyrannical majorities? |
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D. 1, 2, 3
(calendar based elections, popularly elected president, geographically defined districts) |
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| From the perspective of classical liberalism, what is the paradox created by a democracy based upon majority rule? |
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| B. Rule by the majority tends to infringe upon the rights of minorities. |
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| ____ argued that the new constitution was needed to remedy the problem the new nation had experienced under the articles of confederation. |
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| What steps did the Federalists take to increase the chances of ratification? |
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A. 1, 2
(They wrote rules of ratification that favored the supporters of the Constitution, They sought to undercut support for the Antifederalists by agreeing to amend the
Constitution to include a specific list of guarantees for individual rights. ) |
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Opponents of gay rights issues are more likely to ____ the numbers of gays and lesbians in America so as
to ____. |
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| C. underemphasize; minimize their political clout |
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| Approximately what percentage of Americans say they belong to an organized religion? |
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| What percentage of primary and secondary students are enrolled in public schools? |
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| Since 1960, the unemployment rate in the United States has |
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| Rust Belt states are primarily ____ industrial states in the ____. |
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| C. older; Northeast and around the Great Lakes region |
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| Which of the following statements BEST exemplifies the class situation in America? |
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Despite evidence that lower, middle, and upper classes do not exist in America, most
Americans think in class terms. |
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| Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation? |
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| Which of the following observations regarding Hispanic voting patterns is true? |
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| C. Most Cuban Americans identify themselves as Republicans. |
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| Identify the steps(s) involved in determining whether a material is obscene. |
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D. All of the above
a. The average person applying community standards rule
b. Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct
specifically defined by the applicable law
c. Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific
value |
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| ____ rule bars government officials from using evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment. |
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The ____ Act, passed quickly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, allows the government to
more easily engage in “sneak and peek” searches in which federal agents with a warrant can enter,
examine various kinds of evidence, and delay notifying the subject of the search for weeks. |
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| Success in protecting the rights of the disabled and elderly has been achieved by |
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| C. Congress passing anti-discrimination legislation. |
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| Which of the following best describes the history of civil rights in the United States? |
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| B. a series of political conflicts, confrontations, and pressures |
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| What is the constitutional status of sex discrimination? |
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Sex discrimination is not mentioned in the Constitution; it would be prohibited only if the
ERA were passed. |
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| Which was the first state to give women the right to vote in local school elections? |
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Which 1974 act prohibits financial companies from discriminating on the basis of sex or marital status
when lending money or issuing credit cards? |
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| D. Equal Opportunity Credit Act |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. BOE were both cases concerned with |
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| The civil rights movement |
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| C. was necessary to actually realize the impact of court decisions such as Brown v. BOE |
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(True or False) The debate over the degree to which industry practices and decisions should be regulated in order to
protect the environment is an example of conflict arising from differences in values. |
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| (True or False) Committees in Congress are examples of a structural rule. |
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(True or False) The difference between legitimacy and coercive force is that coercive force is imposed on individuals by
the government, whereas legitimacy is a self-imposed obligation by individuals. |
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(True or False) Structural rules are unbiased because they only decide how decisions are made and do not allocate
resources |
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(True or False) Because freedom of speech is so vital to a healthy democracy and individual freedom, it is an example of
an absolute right. |
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(True or False) State and Local governments generally support the USA Patriot Act because of the civil rights guarantees
contained therein |
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