True False

-Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence at a house on the southwest corner of 7th and Market Streets in Philadelphia while being waited on by a 14 year old slave: Robert Hemings.

True

-The study of politics as a science focuses exclusively on the formal institutions of government.

False

-Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chats are an example of a new media, radio, being used for political purposes.

True

-Richard Henry Lee of Virginia would offer the famous resolution declaring the colonies ought to be free on June 7, 1776.

True

-In Marbury v. Madison Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that the U.S. Supreme Court could not address Marbury's claim because the Judiciary Act of 1801 — which expanded the court's original jurisdiction — was unconstitutional.

True

-Sally Hemings was able to negotiate with her owner, Thomas Jefferson, and though was free in Paris at the age of 16, agreed to return to enslavement at Monticello in exchange for privileges for herself and freedom for her unborn children.

True

-According to former Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes Congress is the final arbiter of the meaning of the Constitution.

False

-Only two presidents have ever been impeached: Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

False

-A deleted phrase from the Constitution argued that slavery was an evil and it banned it in the newly formed United States.

False

-Article V of the Constitution outlined its own ratification process — which benefited those who supported it by bypassing the amendment process for the Articles of Confederation.

False

-According to Article I, Section 7 and Article II, Section 3, the president has the ability to write executive orders.

False

-American revolutionaries used the reasoning of Hobbes over the reasoning of Locke.

False

-The lack of bill of rights was an accidental fluke

False

-The English Constitution was considered by many contemporaries, including John Adams, as essentially the most free in the world.

True

-Unlike television, which rapidly entered American homes from the 1950s to the 1970s, smartphones have seen a slower adaption rate. Scholars attribute this to the higher cost of smartphones relative to televisions.

False

-Political philosophy explicitly deals with normative claims

True

-Social contract theory attempts to solve the intellectual problem of justifying state legitimacy. ex) violence

True

-Only 13 - 17% of the bills which are taken up by a House or Senate standing committee are reported on successfully and make it to the full chamber floor.

True

-Literacy tests are an example of equitable lawmaking that was colorblind in terms of their use in voting.

Flase

-After Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988) Larry Flynt and Jerry Falwell would end up continuing to fight in public until Larry Flynt's death in 2010.

False

- In the House, due to Rule 22, it is possible for representatives to filibuster a bill unless the opposing side has the votes to invoke cloture.

False

-Scholarly views of technology's effect on communication is that it is a net positive. It always improves voters ability to match their preference to a candidate

False

-One of the major sets of issues that led to the dissolution of the Articles of Confederation were domestic in nature, including Shay's Rebellion against taxes.

True

-According to Article III, Section 2, in certain special cases the U.S. The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction.

True

-The Bill of Rights, even though it amends the U.S. The Constitution was not incorporated into the text. Instead it was added to the end, a practice which continues today

True

-Article V of the Constitution outlines four methods for amendment.

True

-George Washington was a supporter of the Articles of Confederation, or at least a version of it, arguing that it best accounted for human nature.

False

-There are currently 625 electoral college votes.

False

-The constitutional convention would create a constitution based on federalism - the division of power between national and state governments.

True

-Jefferson wanted to call slavery, despite owning slaves himself, a "cruel war against human nature itself in a deleted passage of the Declaration of Independence

True

-The Declaration of Independence was the first independent constitution of the United States.

False

-Many of the men who would ultimately serve in the Constitution convention were afraid that under the Articles of Confederation that the "body politic was dangerously sick" and action was needed.

True