STRAIGHTERLINE AMERICAN GOV FINAL EXAM |GUARANTEED PASS
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Which of the following describes socialism as practiced today in Sweden? - ACCURATE ANSWERS a. The government does not attempt to manage the overall economy, but owns a number of major industries and provides for people's basic economic needs
What is a major limit on majoritarianism suggested by...
STRAIGHTERLINE AMERICAN GOV
FINAL EXAM |GUARANTEED PASS
Which of the following describes socialism as practiced today in
Sweden? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ a. The government does not
attempt to manage the overall economy, but owns a number of major
industries and provides for people's basic economic needs
What is a major limit on majoritarianism suggested by the text? -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ a. The public as a whole takes an interest
in only a few of the hundreds of policy decisions that U.S. officials make
each year.
Which of the following is NOT one of the core values of American
political culture? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ c. cooperation
_______ described politics as a conflict over "who gets what, when, and
how." - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ c. Harold Lasswell
What new policy was established by the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark
Gideon v. Wainwright ruling? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ d.
government provision of free legal counsel to the accused if they are too
poor to hire a lawyer
The average incomes of minimum-wage workers in the United States
and Europe reflect a greater influence of which of the following in the
,United States, when compared to Europe? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ c. corporate power
The United States has certain rules in place to keep politics within
peaceful bounds. These rules include all of the following EXCEPT: -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ a. autocracy
Compared to two decades ago, contemporary Americans are, on average,
- ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ e. paying more attention to news sources
that have an obvious ideological bias.
Which of the following is an accurate description of the prevalence of
college education in the United States? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
b. Among adults twenty-five years of age and older, roughly one in four
is a college graduate.
To the framers, the great danger of democratic government was the risk
of - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ a. tyranny of the majority.
President John Adams publicly indicated that - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ b. the Constitution was designed for a governing elite.
The direct election of U.S. senators came about due to - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ b. political pressure from the Progressives
, The term of office for a U.S. senator is ________ years, while that of a
member of the U.S. House is ________ years. - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ a. six; two
Where is the Bill of Rights found in the Constitution? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ c. the first ten amendments
Marbury v. Madison is a landmark Supreme Court decision because it -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ b. set the precedent for judicial review.
Which of the following aspects of U.S. government might be used as
part of an argument that the U.S. is less democratic than some other
democracies? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ e. its staggered terms of
office of members of the legislature
The type of government created in the United States in 1787 can be
called: - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ c. a constitutional democratic
republic
In 1787, most countries in the world had a(n) __________ form of
government. - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ c. unitary
________ opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ b. Patrick Henry
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