POSC 225 Nightingale College Question and answers already passed POSC 225
Representative Democracy - correct answer -indirect
-people rule through elected officials
Direct Democracy - correct answer -decided by all citizens, direct voting into the government process
- halls
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POSC 225
Representative Democracy - correct answer ✔-indirect
-people rule through elected officials
Direct Democracy - correct answer ✔-decided by all citizens, direct voting
into the government process
-ex.town halls
Republicanism - correct answer ✔-limited government
-popular consent
-protection against majority tyranny
-believed in by the founders
Fundamental Principals of Representative Democracy (3) - correct answer
✔-Popular sovereignty
-Political liberty
-Political equality
Popular sovereignty (6 conditions)
QCPEMR - correct answer ✔People ultimately rule
1) Government must reflect the wishes of the people
2) Government process must be effective
3) Competitive, free, fair elections
4) High quality information must be available
5) Majority rules
, 6) People must participate in the political process
Political equality - correct answer ✔Each person carries equal weight in the
conduct of public business regardless of race
Political liberty - correct answer ✔Citizens are protected from government
interference of their basic freedoms
Declaration of Independence (3 main points and 4 structure parts) - correct
answer ✔1) Humans possess natural rights
2) Government is created to protect those rights
3) People can withdraw consent if the government fails to do so
-Preamble
-Rights of the people
-List of grievances
-Free&independent states
Natural rights - correct answer ✔Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Articles of Confederation - correct answer ✔Created a loose confederation
among the states. The government wasn't able to levy taxes, regulate
commerce, and there was no chief executive or national court system.
Shay's Rebellion - correct answer ✔-Uprising of popular support from
farmers against a conservative Massachusetts that wanted to increase what
were already some of the highest taxes in the colonies
-The Articles of Confederation was so weak that the government was unable
to raise and army to suppress the rebellion
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