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POSC 2306 Final Exam Spring 2024 Actual Questions and Answers Fully Solved 100%
POSC 2306 POSC 2306 Final Exam Spring 2024 Actual Questions and Answers Fully Solved 100%
1.Reconstruction had two primary goals: to restore law and order, to allow southern states to be readmitted to
the Union, and to dismantle the institution of slavery.
a.T
b.F
2.After the Civil war, the United States passed three constitutional amendments to end slavery and protect
African Americans: the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, the 14th declared freed slaves to be citizens, and the
15th gave Black men the right to vote.
a.T
b.F
3.After Reconstruction, Southern Democrats were able to regain control of Texas government in the election of
1874 and the new Texas governor, Richard Coke, called for a convention to write the last and current constitution in
1876.
a.T
b.F
4.The basic structure of state government in Texas fits the traditionalistic/individualistic model in that government is limited, power is divided, executive authority is weak, there are few regulations on business, and those that do exist, benefit specific businesses.
a.T
b.F
5.Another facet of Texas political ideology and culture is populism, an ideology that opposes a role for government in economic concerns, while simultaneously supporting the government’s role in upholding socially conservative values like conservative religious values, but it also has an anti-intellectual strain, an anti-union, an anti-immigrant strain and appears to have merged with social conservatism in Texas and other states: Republicans tend to embrace this ideology.
a.T
b.F
6.There is a significant segment of Texans who embrace a progressive or modern liberal position , which is not as skeptical of government, they see government as a potent force for good, favoring a larger social-welfare system and more regulation of business: These people make up a large part of the modern Democratic Party.
a.T
b.F
7.Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution contains the Supremacy Clause, and this makes the U.S. Constitution the “supreme law of the land”, and no federal or state statute may violate it.
a.T
b.F
8.The Full faith and Credit Clause of the U.S. Constitution states that full faith and credit shall be given in each state to
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