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Government 2305 Exam Questions
Correctly Solved Current Update
(Verified A+ Pass)
The litigant who brings charges against an individual, corporation, or government in a
civil or criminal court case is called - Answers -✔✔ plaintiff

Class action suits - Answers -✔✔ permit a small number of people to sue on behalf of
all other people similarly situated

The Constitution specifically provided that there would be a Supreme Court - Answers -
✔✔ but left it to the discretion of Congress to establish lower federal courts of general
jurisdiction

Courts with appellate jurisdiction are - Answers -✔✔ review the legal issues involved in
a case

Lower federal courts of general jurisdiction were established by - Answers -✔✔ the
Judiciary Act of 1789

The only federal courts in which trials are held and in which juries may be impaneled
are the - Answers -✔✔ district courts

The US government is represented in civil cases by - Answers -✔✔ US attorney

About 75 percent of the more than 63,000 cases heard inthe courts of criminal appeal
come from - Answers -✔✔ district courts

The nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court almost failed to receive
Senate confirmation because - Answers -✔✔ of charges of sexual harassment

The first woman appointed to the US Supreme Court was - Answers -✔✔ Sandra Day
O'Connor

Each year, approximately how many cases are submitted to the Supreme Court -
Answers -✔✔ 8,000

A writ of cetiorarl - Answers -✔✔ is used by the Supreme Court to call up a case

Th current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is - Answers -✔✔ John Roberts

, Stare decisis means that cases are - Answers -✔✔ decided on the basis of an earlier
decision

The view that judges should play a minimal role in policymaking is called judicial -
Answers -✔✔ activism

Policies that provide benefits to individuals, either through entitlements or means-
testing, are - Answers -✔✔ social welfare policies

Over the past decade or two, the group in poverty that has grown the most in size is -
Answers -✔✔ women

If the government takes a bigger bite from the income of a rich family than from the
income of a poor family, then the tax system is - Answers -✔✔ progressive

If a poor family pays 50 percent of its income in taxes and a rich one 5 percent , then
the tax system is - Answers -✔✔ regressive

The tax that con be used to redistribute income from the rich to the poor is a - Answers -
✔✔ progressive tax

Benefits that are provided regardless of financial need are termed - Answers -✔✔
entitlements

Social Security and Medicare - Answers -✔✔ the largest and most expensive social
welfare programs in America

Compared to other industrialized countries, the United States ____________ inn
providing a safety net for all its citizens and in lifting a greater percentage of the poor
above the poverty line with various programs - Answers -✔✔ does worse

Which of the following programs receives the most funding - Answers -✔✔ Medicare

The most dramatic change in how Americans viewed government's role in providing
social welfare occurred during - Answers -✔✔ the Great Depression

Lyndon Johnson's social welfare policy initiatives were part of the - Answers -✔✔ War
on Poverty

The major actor in initiating cuts in government spending during the 1980's was -
Answers -✔✔ President Reagan

The major features of welfare reform in the 1990's included - Answers -✔✔ limiting the
period in which individuals could be eligible to receive welfare benefits

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