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PLS-101 FinalIt takes both a two thirds vote by the House and Senate, and a three fourths vote by the state legislature
to Amend the Constitution. - correct answer ✔✔True
The Federalist papers argued against ratification of the Constitution. - correct answer ✔✔False
The Great Compromise had nothing to do with addressing representation differences between the
Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan. - correct answer ✔✔False
The basic government structure in America has followed the colonial English structure. - correct answer
✔✔True
Popular Sovereignty simply means the power of the government rests with the people. - correct answer
✔✔True
The Articles of Confederation allowed for a very strong central government, which is why we needed the
new Constitution to limit central authority. - correct answer ✔✔False
British taxation increases prior to the revolutionary war were in large part to pay back debt incurred
while defending the English colonies in the French and Indian War. - correct answer ✔✔True
The Anti-Federalists wanted immediate ratification of the new Constitution. - correct answer ✔✔False
The Three Fifths compromise actually reduced the political influence of the southern states. - correct
answer ✔✔True
Even in today's America, states have sovereignty within their reserved powers. - correct answer ✔✔True
, Reserved Powers are those powers to which the states gave the federal government. - correct answer
✔✔False
The necessary and proper clause affords congress to create a variety of laws, but are supposed to
support only the expressed powers in Article 1, section 8 of the Constitution. - correct answer ✔✔True
Enumerated, reserved, and concurrent powers have nothing to do with the balance of power in our
federal system. - correct answer ✔✔False
The full faith and credit clause is in the Bill of Rights. - correct answer ✔✔False
Federalism is the most effective way to encourage diversity, this is why it has been said that States are
the laboratories of democracy. - correct answer ✔✔True
New federalism is essentially a partial return to the original state centered federalism the country was
founded on. - correct answer ✔✔True
One of the advantages of federalism is that it is reliant on courts to define the boundaries between
federal and state power. - correct answer ✔✔False
Same sex marriages cannot be held illegitimate of Georgia due to Article IV of the Constitution. - correct
answer ✔✔True
A unitary government is the least efficient way to govern. - correct answer ✔✔False
One of the disadvantages of federalism is that it discourages diversity. - correct answer ✔✔False
The federal government can indirectly expand its power over the states by the use of grant funding tied
to conditions to obey federal policy. - correct answer ✔✔True
Federalism is a term used to define the division of power between the central government and the state
governments. - correct answer ✔✔True
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