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Texas Government Exam #1 with correctAnswers
Politics - Answers -"Who gets what when and how" - Harold Laswell
Government - Answers -System for exercising authority over a people.
Authority - Answers -Right to rule
Functions of Government - Answers -1. Security: protection
2. Law and Order
3. Public Goods: non-exhaustive (not going to run out of goods) or
non-exclusive (everyone has access)
4. Collect taxes
5. Political Socialization
Democracy - Answers -Is ruled by the people
Two types of Democracy - Answers -Direct Democracy and Indirect/Reprentative
Democracy
Direct Democracy - Answers -People make the rules, law, ect.
Advantage: maximize people input. Everyone gets a chance to decide.
Disadvantage: Different opinions, time
Indirect/Reprentative Democracy - Answers -People chose individuals to make
decisions for them.
Advantage: time
Disadvantage: mechanism to decide; difference of opinions, trust
Liberal Democracy - Answers -Writing of John Locke "Baron de Montesquite"
1. Human nature- Flawed, selfish, greedy
2. When we create government-> government maybe flawed as well.
3. If government makes decisions based on majority -> majority maybe wrong.
4. Fundamental Issue- how to control/ limit impulses of the majority in government to
prevent taking away rights of minority.
5. Solution - Separations of powers; checks of balance.
Rule of Law - Answers -Fundamental Rights of citizens (political rights)
, What does liberal democracy assume about human nature? - Answers -Humans are
flawed, selfish, and greedy
What is the fundamental question liberal democracy addresses? - Answers -How to
control/limit impulses of the majority in government to prevent taking away right of
minorities.
Solution to the fundamental question liberal democracy addresses - Answers -
Separations of powers; checks and balances.
What are the assumptions of populist democracy? - Answers -People are good
therefore government is good.
Majority rule is good and embodies the general will and the people.
General will: people expressing their ideas and beliefs
Effective participations in free, fair, open elections to ensure general will is expressed
and put into good
Good should be unlimited to express the general will into policies, procedures, etc.
Majority rule is good, minority MUST be misinformed, uneducated, or morally bankrupt.
Rights of minority are consequential and suppressed if interfere with general will the
majority.
What is the assumption about human nature? - Answers -People are good and
therefore government is good.
How does majority rule differ in liberal democracy versus populist democracy? -
Answers -Liberal says is decisions based on the majority and the majority maybe
wrong. Populist says majority rule is good and the minority must be misinformed,
uneducated, or morally bankrupt
List four key contexts that make Texas politics and government unique. - Answers -
Geography, History, Political Culture, Transformation
Why is geography important for understanding Texas government? - Answers -2nd
largest state behind Alaska, population is spread across the state.
How has immigration shaped Texas politics and government in the past? - Answers -
What was the Joint Resolution passed by the U.S. Congress in 1845? - Answers -TX
entry into the U.S. Defined correct boundaries,
Texas v. White (1869) - Answers -TX status no different, Tx can't secede, Constitution
lacks "exit clause", U.S in an "indestructible union."
Delima v. Birdwell (1901) - Answers -Tx and Hawaii acquisition was absolute and
permanent.
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