gov sem 1 final
1) According to Locke, on what basis does a sovereign claim to legitimate right to rule?
A) The devine right of kings
B) Aristocratic legitimacy
C) Wealth
D) The consent of the people
2) A social contract theory of government was proposed by
A) Aquinas and Luther,
C) Plato and Aristotle.
B) Locke and Hobbes.
D) Newton and the separatists.
3) From the 1880s to 1910s, many of the immigrants who came to the United States were from
A) China and Asia.
B) Western Europe.
C) Northern and Eastern Europe,
D) Ireland.
4) Which of the following is consistent with Saruel Huntington's theory?
A) Recent immigrants have benefited America by retaining their native culture.
B) Universal health insurance would lower medical costs.
C) Immigration from Latin America is potentially destructive to core American principles.
D) Public education is essentially a middle-class subsidy that should be eliminated.
5) A direct democracy is a systen in which
A) all members of the polity meet to discuss policy and make decisions.
B) an elite makes decisions for the society.
C) the masses have certain rights, but decisions are made by a council.
D) representatives meet to discuss policy and make decisions.
6) The Constitution has established equal protection of the laws through the
A) First Amendment.
B) Twelfth Amendment.
C) Twenty-first Amendment.
D) Fourteenth Amendment.
7) Conservatives believe that
A) government should only provide for defense and little else.
B) activist government is often necessary.
C) there should be less government.
D) government should guarantee individual rights.
8) Which of the following groups is the most libertarian?
A) Baby Boomers
C) The Greatest Generation
B) Generation X-ers
D) Democrats
9) Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
A) Alexander Hamilton
B) George Washington
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Thomas Jefferson
10) İrag under Saddam Hussein is an example of a/an
A) monarchy.
B) Oligarchy
C) totalitarian government.
D) democracy
11) In general, the U.S. population is
A) getting older.
B) less affected by immigration than in earlier years.
C) quite young-
D) becoming less diverse.
12) The function of government is to
A) secure the blessings of liberty.
C) promote the general welfare.
B) establish justice.
D) all of the above
13) Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government (1689) set out a theory of
A) patronage.
B) aristocracy.
C) natural rights.
D) democracy
14) One year after the Constitution was ratified, the population of the United States was
A) less than 4 million.
B) greater than 10 million.
C) about 6 million.
D) about 2 million.
15) Supreme Court justices are appointed by the
A) president.
C) states.
B) House of Representatives.
D) Cabinet.
16) A series of 85 political papers written by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison in support of ratification were called the
A) Ratification Debates.
C) Federalist Papers.
B) Pennsylvania Packet.
D) Anti-Federalist Papers.
17) In 1765, the American colonists initiated a major protest against the
A) Treaty of Paris.
B) Tea Import Act.
C) Stamp Act.
D) Sugar Act,
18) The amendment process for the Constitution is set out in Article V and sets up a(n)
A) single-stage process utilizing conventions or Congress.
B) extremely procedure for changing the document.
C) two-stage process of proposal and ratification.
D) process by which the states, Congress, the executive branch, and a majority of voters must agree on changes to document
19) Originally, the Constitution placed the selection of senators
A) up to the Supreme Court.
B) directly with the House of Representatives.
C) subject to popular statewide elections.
D) directly with state legislatures.
20) The Electoral College system for electing the president was designed to give
A) the federal government the preeminent role in choosing the president.
B) average voters the decisive power in choosing the president.
C) the states a key role in choosing the president.
D) southern states an advantage in selecting the president;
21) The Committee on Unfinished Portions was tasked with ironing out problems concerning
A) slavery and issues of the slave trade.
B)the executive branch.
C) procedures for the election of the legislature.
D) judicial powers.
22) The principles of separation of powers and checks and balances originated with
A) Montesquieu.
B) Voltaire.
C) Machiavelli.
D) Rousseau.
23) The smaller states presented a plan at the Constitutional Convention advocating the strengthening of the Articles of Confederation. The plan was presented by
A) New Jersey.
B) Rhode Island.
C) Virginia.
D) Texas.
24) Once the Constitutional Convention was completed, the drive for ratification in the states began.
Those who favored ratification were known as
A) Republicans.
C) Anti-Federalists.
B) Democrats.
D) Federalists.
25) The sole responsibility to try a president or vice president on charges of "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" falls to the
A) federal court system.
C) Supreme Court.
B) House of Representatives.
D) Senate.
26) The right to regulate for the public health and welfare of its citizens are reserved to the states by the
26)
A) Tenth Amendment
B) elastic clause
C) Full faith and credit clause
D) supremacy clause.
27) Article I, section 8 gives Congress the power to pass all laws "necessary and proper" to carry out its enumerated powers. These powers are known as
A) implied powers powers.
C) reserve powers powers.
B) full faith and credit powers.
D) enumerated powers.
28) The terrorist attacke of September 11, 2001 have had what impact on federal power?
A) Federal power has stopped.
B) The attack had no noticeable impact on federal power.
C) Federal power has declined.
D) Federal power has increased.
29) The Department of Homeland Security
A) İs a Cabinet department.
B) is an international arm of the United Nations,
C)Is an independent regulatory commission.
D) Is a government corporation.
30) The supremacy clause is found in
A) the Declaration of Independence.
C) the Preamble.
B) Article II.
D) Article VI
31) In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens, but property, in the case
A) Dred Scott v. Sandford.
B) McCulloch v. Maryland.
C) Gibbona v. Ogden.
D) Plessy v. Ferguson.
32) The Framers created the federal system in order to
A) eliminate the power of the elite.
B)remedy problems experienced by the Framers under the Articles of Confederation.
C) establish a powerful central government and minimize the authority of state and local governments.
D) establish a lese democratic political system that was also efficient.
33) In order the help finance World WarI, the Sixteenth Amendment was passed. It made the possible.
A) national Import tax
B) state sales tax
C) national income tax
D) national sales tax
34) The clause that ensures that judicint decrees and contracts made in one state will be binding and enforceable in another is called the ___ clause
A) privileges and immunities
B) full faith and credit
D) bill of attainder
35) An stated in the Seventh Amendment, the concept of sovereign immunity
A) hinders the prosecution of criminals captured across lines.
B) Was the basie for the Rehnquist Court's decisions restricting federal government powers.
C) prevents atates from seceding from the union.
D) ensure that state and local governments grant protect the civil liberties of their citizens
36) Supporters of legislative term limits
A) Like the idea that holding office would not be a career.
B) never have political motives.
C) dislike the idea of citizen legislators.
D) all of the above
37) The governor's most important roles is that of
A) identifying pressing problems and proposing solutions.
B) commander-in-chief of the National Guard.
C) using the line-item veto.
D) negotiating with the federal government.
38) Under what circumstances was California Governor Gray Davis is removed from office?
A) He was voted out of office in the November 2002 general election.
B) He resigned due to a scandal.
C) A car accident left Davis comatose and the state legislature declared him incapacitated.
D) Citizens petitioned for a recall election to remove him from power.
39) Which of the following is true concerning partisan control of the governorships in 2005?
A) Democrats control the governorships of the four largest states.
B) Republicans control a majority of the governorships.
C) Republicans control all governorships in the Rocky Mountain states.
D) Democrats control all New England governorships.
40) The process of amending state consütutions tends to be
A) difficult and not often used.
B) very similar to the national process.
C) relatively easy.
D) quite complex and time-consuming.
41) As western states entered the Union, they generally adopted constitutions that
A) were greatly concerned about slavery and national interference.
B) envisioned weak governments.
C) envisioned moderately strong governments.
D) resulted in control by political machines.
42) The clause contained in the Fourteenth Amendment that has been ruled to make some of the Bill of Rights protections applicable to the states is called the _ clause.
A) due process
B) necessary and proper
C) incorporation
D) elastic
43) The Supreme Court first acknowledged that symbolic speech was entitled to First Amendment protection in the case
A) Stromberg v. California.
B) Schenck v. U.S.
C) Brandenbürg v. Ohio.
D) Miller v. California.
44) In 2002, _ states had capital punishment statutes.
A) 44
B) 27
C) 38
D) 18
45) The establishment clause has been said to
A) adopt an official relfgion.
B)inhibit citizens' basic religious rights.
C)erect a wall of separation between church and state.
D) all of the above
46) In New York Times v. Sullivan (1964), the Supreme Court ruled that
A)false or negligent speech was not protected by the First Amendment.
B) prior restraint was unconstigitional
C) "actual malice" must be proved to support libel against a public figure.
D) libel and slander were constitutionally protected forms of speech.
47) The form of government that gives power to the people through direct or indirect representation is a/an
A) democracy:
C) totalitarian regime.
B) oligarchy.
D) monarchy.
48) A New England town meeting is an example of
A) an indirect democracy.
C) a representative democracy.
B) a republican democracy.
D) a direct democracy.
49) In 1997,54 percent of Americans said that the ideal family size was children.
A) three to four
B) four or more
C) no
D) zero to two
50) The coherent set of values and beliefs about the purpose and scope of government held by groups and individuals is known as
A) political theory.
C) dogma.
B) sociology
D) political ideology..