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GOVT 2305 Exam One With Correct Questions And Answers 2024
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GOVT 2305 Exam One With Correct Questions And Answers 2024According to Condoleezza Rice, what are the five key aspects of Founders' institutional design? - CORRECT ANSWERS-- Strong military power to protect but not damage political order. - Separation of church and state. - Balance between states and center.
- Space for private sector, civil society.
- Spirit of Constitutionalism
According to Condoleezza Rice, how does civil society strengthen democracy? - CORRECT ANSWERS-Encourages citizen participation, fosters democratic values, advances general welfare, provide for public goods, and counterbalances government.
What did Madison/Montesquieu write was the very definition of tyranny? - CORRECT ANSWERS-The accumulation of all power into the hands of one or a few.
Madison believed that without _________ and ___________ a free government can never in practice be truly maintained. - CORRECT ANSWERS-checks and balances.
Madison wrote that if people were __________, no government would be necessary. - CORRECT ANSWERS-angels
What are two aspects of the Madisonian Model of Constitution? - CORRECT ANSWERS-1. Checks and Balances
2. Separation of powers
Details of legislature in three main plans at Constitutional Convention. - CORRECT ANSWERS-Virginia Plan: representation based on population and state's revenue contribution to national government. New Jersey Plan: equal representation regardless of population. Favored by smaller states in the NE. Connecticut Plan (Great Compromise): bicameral legislature, with lower chamber (House of Representatives) based on population, and upper chamber (Senate) with equal representation between states.
What is three-fifths compromise? - CORRECT ANSWERS-Established to quell concerns of southern states, who were slave holding, by allowing them to count 3/5ths of slave population towards total population figure used to determine representation numbers. What did Madison believe about ambition? - CORRECT ANSWERS-Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
What did Madison believe was the "end of government?" - CORRECT ANSWERS-
Justice was the "end of government."
What level of government did Madison believe Constitution favored? - CORRECT ANSWERS-State Government's
What did Madison believe about Constitutional powers allotted to federal government? -
CORRECT ANSWERS-Madison believed they were few and defined.
What did Madison believe Constitution did for powers of central government? - CORRECT ANSWERS-Madison believed the Constitution did not create any new powers for the national government, merely it invigorated its original powers by creating a more effectual way to administer powers.
What did Madison claim was only new power granted to federal government in new Constitution? - CORRECT ANSWERS-The power to regulate commerce.
Author of De Cive - CORRECT ANSWERS-Thomas Hobbes
Author of Leviathan - CORRECT ANSWERS-Thomas Hobbes
Author of The Spirit of the Laws - CORRECT ANSWERS-Montesquieu
Author of The Social Contract - CORRECT ANSWERS-Rousseau
Author of Two Treatises on Government - CORRECT ANSWERS-Locke
What did Hobbes believe was fundamental principle that led to war-like conditions in state of nature? - CORRECT ANSWERS-People have perpetual and restless desire for power after power that only ceases at death.
What three fundamental laws were built on that fundamental principle? - CORRECT ANSWERS-1. People have right to possess. 2. People have right to posses equally.
3. People constantly at each other's throats.
According to Locke, what inalienable rights did reasonable people in state of nature accept? - CORRECT ANSWERS-Life, liberty, and property-used productively.
Who studied rise and fall of Rome? - CORRECT ANSWERS-Montesquieu
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