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PSCI EXAM 1 | Questions And Answers Latest {2024- 2025} A+ Graded | 100% VerifiedNational Sovereignty is defined as
a. political entity's externally recognized right to exercise final authority over its affairs.
b. a government's ability to effectively manage elections.
c. a political entity's ability to engage meaningfully with foreign powers.
d. regular peaceful transfer of governmental power.
e. separation of power between federal and state governments. - a.political entity's externally
recognized right to exercise final authority over its affairs.
An underlying assumption of the text is that perfect freedom and order can never be achieved because
a. upper-class citizens do not want parity with lower-class citizens.
b. some political officials will always be corrupt or incompetent.
c. no government structure is perfectly designed.
d. these two values are inherently in conflict and cannot be provided simultaneously.
e. these terms refer essentially to the same thing. - d. these two values are inherently in conflict and
cannot be provided simultaneously.
Which political philosopher expressed the sentiment that life in a state of nature would be "solitary,
poor, nasty, brutish, and short?"
a. Thomas Hobbes
b. Dwight Eisenhower
c. James Monroe
d. John Locke
e. Karl Marx - a. Thomas Hobbes
Most governments at least claim to __________ while they maintain order.
a. redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor
b. protect social norms
, c. preserve equality
d. provide access to all citizens
e. preserve individual freedom - e. preserve individual freedom
Hobbes's state of nature refers to
a. order without equality.
b. government without values.
c. regulation without leadership.
d. society without government.
e. order without conflict. - d. society without government.
The value of using political concepts in understanding government is that they
a. demonstrate the problems with socialism or communism.
b. enable focus on very specific details of government action.
c. inherently support the values of capitalism and democracy.
d. provide for a broader view than looking at specific events.
e. actually have no meaning, so they allow the government to do whatever it wants. - d. provide for a
broader view than looking at specific events.
The desire to avoid potential foreign prosecution of its soldiers and the desire to continue practicing the
death penalty led the United States in 2002 to
a. withdraw from NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
b. cease making scheduled contributions to the U.N. Security Council.
c. pull troops out of Afghanistan.
d. withdraw from the 1998 treaty creating an International Criminal Court.
e. cancel its membership in the United Nations. - d. withdraw from the 1998 treaty creating an
International Criminal Court.
Democratic governments that have in the decades since World War II been, at times, avowedly socialist
include
a. the United States
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