West-E Social Studies Exam Practice Questions and Answers
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West-E Social Studies Exam Practice
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What did Aristotle and Plato believe about political science? - Answer️️ -
It would lead to order in political matters and that this organized order
would create stable, just societies
How did Thomas Aquinas influence political stud...
West-E Social Studies Exam Practice
Questions and Answers
What did Aristotle and Plato believe about political science? - Answer✔️✔️-
It would lead to order in political matters and that this organized order
would create stable, just societies
How did Thomas Aquinas influence political study? - Answer✔️✔️-He
adapted the ideas of Aristotle to a Christian perspective. Focused on
having certain rights and responsibilities. Laid the groundwork for what
would become modern constitutionalism.
How did Niccolo Machiavelli influence political study? - Answer✔️✔️-He
wrote The Prince and was a proponent of politics based on power.
How did Thomas Hobbes influence political study? - Answer✔️✔️-Author of
Leviathan (1651); believed that individual's lives were focused on the quest
for power; and the state must control this urge. People were unable to live
in harmony without government intervention.
How did John Locke influence political study? - Answer✔️✔️-Wrote Two
Treatises of Civil Government (1690); argued against Hobbes ideas; idea of
"tabula rasa" or blank slate; Experience molds individual minds, not innate
knowledge or intuition; all men were essentially good; many of his ideas
were included in the US Constitution
How did Montesquieu and Rousseau influence political study? -
Answer✔️✔️-(1789-1815) heavily influenced the French revolution; believed
government policies should change to alleviate existing problems
"liberalism" Wrote: "The Social Contract (1762); "Declaration of he Rights of
Man" and "The Citizen (1789)
How did Hume and Bentham influence political study? - Answer✔️✔️-"the
greatest happiness for the greatest number"; believed in empiricism - proof
must be observed in order to believe an idea
How did John Stuart Mill influence political study? - Answer✔️✔️-British
philosopher and economist; progressive - women's suffrage; emancipation;
and development of labor organizations and farming coops (1806-1873)
How did Fichte and Hegel influence political study? - Answer✔️✔️-18th
century German philosophers; supported a form of liberalism grounded
largely in socialism and a sense of nationalism
What is liberalism? - Answer✔️✔️-Belief that government policies should
change to alleviate existing problems
What is paternalism? - Answer✔️✔️-Condescending belief that a superior is
"helping" someone in a subordinate position (like master to slave) because
that person is incapable of helping themselves
Federalism - Answer✔️✔️-power of the government does not belong entirely
to the national government, but is divided between national and state
governments
popular sovereignty - Answer✔️✔️-government is determined by the people
and gains its authority and power from the people
separation of powers - Answer✔️✔️-government is divided into three
branches - executive, legislative and judicial
judicial review - Answer✔️✔️-courts at all levels of government can declare
laws invalid if they contradict the constitutions of individual station, or the
US constitution
liberal political orientation - Answer✔️✔️-believes in working to increase
equality, sometimes at the expense of some freedoms, but overall
government should not interfere with individual freedom
conservate political orientation - Answer✔️✔️-government should be limited
in all cases except those of supporting longstanding moral values, often
tied to religious beliefs; allow citizens to solve social issues; little to no
regulation on businesses
moderate political orientation - Answer✔️✔️-incorporates ome liberal and
some conservative values
libertarian - Answer✔️✔️-limiting the role of government to the defense of
the country and supporting social as well as economic freedom
In the U.S. legal system, judges are empowered to issue a writ of habeas
corpus to ensure that suspects in a criminal investigation: - Answer✔️✔️-
cannot be kept in jail without being charged with a specific crime.
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