Week 3 Exam
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Question 1
Direct DemocracySelected Answer: allows the people to participate in decision making and initiating policies -
Question 2
One can have political power even if one does not possess formal authority in an office.Selected Answer: True -
Question 3
When the cost and benefits of a policy are widely distributed among many, they areSelected Answer: spread over many, most, or even all citizens. -
Question 4
Representative democracy allows individuals to gain political power throughSelected Answer: competitive elections. -
Question 5
The Constitution uses the term “republican form of government,” which we would call a representative democracy.Selected Answer: True -
Question 6
The definition of ‘representative democracy’ asserts that
Selected Answer: power is given to various leaders to make political decisions for the people
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Question 7
Power, as defined according to the Pluralist view, belongs toSelected Answer: one dominant social class. -
Question 8
A republic is a government in which the people are given representatives to act in their best interests.Selected Answer: True -
Question 9
The text suggests that the Antifederalists might have been more accurately calledSelected Answer: states’ rights advocates. -
Question 10
The Separation of Powers in the American government is betweenSelected Answer: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches -
Question 11
According to the Constitution, which branch is delegated the power to declare warSelected Answer: The Legislative Branch -
Question 12
When the Constitution was drafted, senators were originally to be chosen bySelected Answer: state legislatures. -
Question 13
The Anti-Federalists in the Constitutional debate wanted to have a less powerful national government so that states would have more rights and powers.Selected Answer: True -
Question 14
Enumerated powers are powers specifically given to the states.Selected Answer: False -
Question 15
According to the text, the federal grants-in-aid system grew rapidly because it helped state and local officials resolve what dilemma?Selected Answer: how to get federal money for state projects into state hands without violating the U.S. Constitution -
Question 16
In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the US Congress could not require local police officers to conduct background checks on all gun purchasers because doing so was a violation of the Tenth Amendment.Selected Answer: Printz v. United States -
Question 17
According to the text, block grants of funds from the federal government to the states have enjoyed only marginal success, in part because
Selected Answer: The federal government steadily increased the number of strings (requirements) attached to such grants.
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Question 18
Which Supreme Court case made same-sex marriage in the US legal across the nation, thus superseding state laws.Selected Answer: Obergefell v. Hodges 2015 -
Question 19
The period in which federal government spending was reduced, and federal functions were given to the states to enact was calledSelected Answer: Devolution -
Question 20
The concept of Dual Federalism gives distinct and separate jurisdictions for states and the federal government.Selected Answer: True -
Question 21
In McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court ruled that a bank chartered by the national government could not be taxed by a state.Selected Answer: True -
Question 22
Obscenity is protected by the First Amendment.Selected Answer: False -
Question 23
An individual cannot get exemptions from the military draft for religious reasons.Selected Answer: True -
Question 24
Which of the following is NOT considered a civil liberty, but is a civil right instead?Selected Answer: Protection against discrimination -
Question 25
Defaming a person’s character is known asSelected Answer: libel -
Question 26
The notion of testing for a clear-and-present-danger is one way to decide if a particular attempt at freedom of expression is protected by the ConstitutionSelected Answer: True -
Question 27
Which law, originally passed after September 2001, increased the power of the federal government’s terrorist investigations by legalizing the mass collection of data and telephone records.Selected Answer: The Patriot Act -
Question 28
According to a Supreme Court ruling, high school students have the same rights as adults in expressing their beliefs at school.Selected Answer: False -
Question 29
In the immediate aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, southern resistance to school integration immediately ended.Selected Answer: True -
Question 30
Sexual Harassment is considered illegal in which casesSelected Answer: All of the above -
Question 31
Civil rights cases deal with issues where unreasonable or biased distinctions between people are being made.Selected Answer: True -
Question 32
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed political equality but not social equality.Selected Answer: True -
Question 33
In the early __________ decision, the Supreme Court ruled that “separate-but-equal” facilities were constitutional.Selected Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson -
Question 34
Which case focused on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act?Selected Answer: United States v. Windsor -
Question 35
In Brown v. Board of Education the Supreme Court decision was unanimous.Selected Answer: True