GOVT 2305 Exam Questions Correctly Solved Current Update (Verified A+ Pass)
Supporting the actions of the Democratic Party simply because one identifies oneself as a member of that party is an example of ________. - Answers - partisanship
When a person is asked a question about a political is...
GOVT 2305 Exam Questions
Correctly Solved Current Update
(Verified A+ Pass)
Supporting the actions of the Democratic Party simply because one identifies oneself as
a member of that party is an example of ________. - Answers -✔✔ partisanship
When a person is asked a question about a political issue that he or she has little
interest in and has not thought much about, that person's answer will likely reflect
________. - Answers -✔✔ latent preferences
Which of the following is a good example of a tradeoff? - Answers -✔✔ The
government pleases environmental activists by preserving public lands but also pleases
ranchers by allowing them to rent public lands for grazing purposes.
T/F The United States government is an example of a direct democracy. - Answers -
✔✔ False
In which form of government does a small group of elite people hold political power? -
Answers -✔✔ oligarchy
According to the pluralist theory of government, ________. - Answers -✔✔
Government policy is formed as a result of the competition between groups with
different goals and interests.
The elite theory of government maintains that ________. - Answers -✔✔ Wealthy,
politically powerful people control government, and government has no interest in
meeting the needs of ordinary people.
What goods are available to all without direct payment? - Answers -✔✔ Public goods
How many states must ratify an amendment before it becomes law? - Answers -✔✔
three-fourths
The agreement that citizens will consent to be governed so long as government protects
their natural rights is called ________. - Answers -✔✔ the social contract
T/F The Fourteenth Amendment extended protections to the states of the same federal
freedoms granted by the Bill of Rights. - Answers -✔✔ True
, Why were The Federalist Papers written? - Answers -✔✔ To encourage New York to
ratify the Constitution.
a form of government in which power is divided between state governments and a
national government - Answers -✔✔ federal system
What is the Bill of Rights? - Answers -✔✔ first ten amendments to the Constitution that
protect individual freedoms
According to the Great Compromise, how would representation in Congress be
apportioned? - Answers -✔✔ Representation in the House of Representatives would
be based on each state's population and every state would have two senators.
the powers given explicitly to the federal government by the Constitution (Article
I,Section 8); power to regulate interstate and foreign commerce, raise and support
armies, declare war, coinmoney, and conduct foreign affairs - Answers -✔✔
Enumerated
a legislature with two houses - Answers -✔✔ bicameral legislature
British colonists in North America in the late seventeenth century were greatly
influenced by the political thought of ________ - Answers -✔✔ John Locke
What important power did the national government lack under the Articles of
Confederation? - Answers -✔✔ It could not impose taxes.
any powers not prohibited by the Constitution or delegated to the nationalgovernment;
powers reserved to the states and denied to the federal government - Answers -✔✔
reserved powers
What argument did Alexander Hamilton use to convince people that it was not
dangerous to place power in the hands of one man? - Answers -✔✔ One man could
respond to crises more quickly than a group of men like Congress AND It was easier to
control the actions of one man than the actions of a group.
The power of the president to reject a law proposed by Congress is known as: -
Answers -✔✔ Veto
__________ is a system that allows one branch of government to limit the exercise of
power by another branch. - Answers -✔✔ Checks and Balances
the statement in Article VI of the Constitution that federal law is superior to laws passed
by state legislatures - Answers -✔✔ supremacy clause
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