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POLS 2311 uta EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS Politics - Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of government (who gets what, when, and how) Articles of Confederation - 1st Constitution of the U.S. (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regula...

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POLS 2311 uta EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
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Politics - ✔✔Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of government

(who gets what, when, and how)


Articles of Confederation - ✔✔1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no

executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade)


MucCulloch v. Maryland - ✔✔Maryland tried to destroy a branch of the National Bank.

Marshall stops this by using the doctrine of implied powers. This case showed that it

was possible to sue a state.


Supremacy Clause - ✔✔Article VI of the Constitution, which makes the Constitution,

national laws, and treaties supreme over state laws when the national government is

acting within its constitutional limits.


Forms of Government - ✔✔Democracy - power with people


Oligarchy - power with a small group of elites


Autocracy - power with one person



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, Types of Government - ✔✔Constitutional - several formal written limits


Authoritarian - NO formal limits. However formal institutions place limits


Totalitarian - nothing stops the government


Structures of Government - ✔✔Republic - citizens vote for their leaders


Monarchy - leader was decided at birth (king/queen)


Dictatorship - one person controls everything. Individual takes power backed by

military


Purpose of Government - ✔✔An institution where society influences public policy. It is

necessary to solve public issues


Problem with Democracy - ✔✔Not everyone gets what they want


Minorities get overlooked


Social Contract Theory - ✔✔Created by John Locke


Free people give up some freedom to be governed in the understanding that the

government will protect their rights.


Founding fathers took inspo from this


Articles of Confederation - ✔✔1st government of the US


- congress doesn't do much




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