American Democracy

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Aristotle believed the best achievable government was one with a mixed constitution that combined elements of oligarchy and democracy. This belief most influenced how the Founding Fathers framed which of the following features of the United States Cconstitution?

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1. the process of amending the Constitution
2. the electoral process
3. relation between the federal government and the state governments
4. the structure of the executive branch

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How is representation in the Senate determined?

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1. by the apportioned population of the states
2. by two representatives from each state
3. by appointment of the governor of the state according to a formula established by Congress
4. by the state legislature of each state

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What is the main idea of the Preamble?

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1. to state the purpose of the Constitution
2. to set the limits on the authority of the federal government
3. to establish the relationship of the branches of government
4. to explain the reasoning behind the break with England

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Who elects the President?

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1. the electoral college
2. the majority of thr citizens who cast votes
3. the legislatures of the various states
4. the majority of the House of Represenatives and Senate

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Which government body has the sole right to impeach?

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1. Senate
2. Supreme Court
3. House of Representatives
4. electoral college

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What is another term for implied powers?

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1. stated
2. absolute
3. expressed
4. elastic

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What officers are all part of the executive branch of government?

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1. President, Vice-President, and chief justice
2. Vice-President, president pro tempore, and president of the Senate
3. chief justice, speaker of the House, and president of the Senate
4. cabinet officers, President, and Vice-President

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Which amendment gives voters the power to elect their senators directly?

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1. Sixteenth
2. Twentieth
3. Nineteenth
4. Seventeenth

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The United States Legislature is bi-cameral, this means:

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1. It contains several houses
2. It consists of two houses
3. The Vice-President is in charge od the legislature when in session
4. It has upper and lower houses

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To be eligible to be elected President one must

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1. Be a citizen for at least five years
2. Be a citizen for seven years
3. Have been bone a citizen
4. Be a naturalized citizen

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Marbury vs Madison (1803)" was an important Supreme Court case which set the precedent for:

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1. The supreme law of the land
2. The elastic cause
3. Judicial review
4. Popular sovereignty in the territorries

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Historically, it would be most accurate to say that in the United States the power of judicial review:

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1. was authorized by Article III of the United States Constitution.
2. confirmed the supremacy of the judicial branch in the U.S. system of government.
3. has been inferred from the logic, structure, an theory of the U.S. Constitution.
4. evolved out of jurisdictional disputes between federal and state courts.

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The principle that "men entrusted with power tend to abuse it" is attributed to:

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1. Locke
2. Rousseau
3. Aristotle
4. Montesquieu

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The source of authority for national, state, and local governments in the United States is:

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1. The will of the people
2. The United States Constitution
3. Written laws
4. The Bill of Rights

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The United States government's current relationship with Native American tribal governments is most similar to its relations with:

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1. U.S. corporations, since Native American tribes have incorporated as business entities.
2. political interest groups, since Native American tribal governments are voluntary organizations with no powers of actual self government.
3. U.S. states, since Native American tribal governments have the right to assert juridiction over their members.
4. other sovereign nations, since Native American tribal governments have the right to make agreements with foreign governments.

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How long does a justice of the Supreme Court remain a member of the Court?

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1. two years
2. four years
3. six years
4. for life

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Historically, debates about the role of a free press in U.S. society have arisen most frequently during:

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1. international conflicts involving the United States.
2. tightly contested presidential elections.
3. political scandals involving the judicial branch of government.
4. periods of widespread economic dislocation.

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The purpose of the War Powers Act was to:

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1. grant the president the right to declare war without the permission of congress.
2. forbid the president from ever sending troops into foreign territory.
3. set a 60-day limit on an presidential commitment of troops to foreign land.
4. allow the president to send troops into foreign territory for an unlimited amount of time.

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Exodusters

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1. left the Great Plains area after the Dust Bowl storms.
2. believed that American Indians should become assimilated into "white America."
3. were miners who planned for gold dust in the Klondike.
4. were African Americans fleeing violence in the South.

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Equal oppotunity and basic human rights are a fundamental ideal of American democracy expressed in the Declaration of Independence. The role of the government is to ensure these opportunities and rights are extended to all of its citizens regardless of a person's race and religion. With your knowledge of American democracy: - analyse one way in which the principles, structure, or process of government in the United States has fostered the ideal of equality - analyse one way in which the principles, structure, or process of government in the United States has restricted the same ideal. (Points: 15)

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