Essay POL 110 Week 4 Exam1 Strayer

Essay POL 110 Week 4 Exam1 Strayer

Essay POL 110 Week 4 Exam1 Strayer

POL 110 Week 4 Exam1 Strayer

POL 110 Week 4 Exam # 1

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	In the United States, a person is said to have political __________ if he or she acts in a certain way that is conferred by a law or by a state or national constitution.

Question 2

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	In our political system, Aristotle’s ideal of direct democracy has been most closely approximated by the

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	The financial position of the state and national governments under the Articles of Confederation could be best described as

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	Karl Marx is associated with the view that elites reflect a(n)

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	One distinctive feature of many European democracies is that very few offices are

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	An unalienable right is one that is based on

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	The Declaration of Independence explicitly stated that governments were instituted among men to

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	Madison dramatized his perspective in a Federalist paper by observing that “if men were _________, no government would be necessary.”

Question 9

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	Under the Articles of Confederation, amendments had to

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	Each state would have had an equal number of votes in the legislature under the ________ Plan.

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	A central premise in Marshall’s analysis of federalism was that the government of the United States was established by

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	One of the reasons that our local governments are independent of the national government is

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	Which is a procedure that enables voters to reject a measure adopted by the legislature?

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	According to the Office of Management and Budget, this program represented the largest federal grant to state and local governments for fiscal year 2014.

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	In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), the Supreme Court ruled that

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	The earliest immigrant group to arrive in large numbers and thus alter the scope of civil liberties issues consisted of

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	If police get a search warrant that they thought was valid but the judge used the wrong form, the ______ allows them to still use the warrant.

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	In this Supreme Court decision, the Court held that the federal guarantees of free speech and free press also applied to the states.

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	In passing the Sedition Act of 1798, the Federalists were fearful that Thomas Jefferson and his party would

Question 20

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	In 1803, this U.S. president wrote a letter to the governor of Pennsylvania requesting that he prosecute newspaper publishers for speaking out against the government.

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	The difference between de facto and de jure segregation is that

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	Laws that address public order and the safety and morals of citizens have traditionally been considered the focus of

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	In order to discourage segregation, federal laws began to

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	A great change in the status of American women took place when

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	The philosophy of civil disobedience suggests that there is value to