Exam #1 (POLS21)
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- The series of essays in support of ratification of the Us constitution; writen for New York newspapers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay durring the debate over ratification was called the _____________ papers.
- Federalist papers
- Madisons theeory expressed in federaliast number 10 about the usefulness of a larger republic was designed to cure the evails of ____________.
- Factions
- Shays Rebellion did what?
- Underscored weakness in the Articles of Confederation.
- Your text cited evidence that Americans are spending less time in organizations and communal activities in the form of less involvement in
- Voting
- Full Native American suffrage was achieved in
- 1948
- The three fifths compromise:
- Was an agreement about how slaves will be counted
- The most important agent of political culture transmission for children is
- Schools
- Democracy is a system of government in which sovereignty resides in the ____________.
- People
- The bill of rights was designed to futhur strenghen the central government so is to insure its ratification by the colonies.
- False
- In that example the grandmother represented which institution of governance?
- The Court
- The speed limit on I-89 is an example of, which of the "values" found in the hierarchy of values we discussed in class?
- Discretion
- I argued that America had two safty valves to help release pressure from the constitution and help it survive. One was that America had abundant land into which dissidents could go. What was the other safety valve?
- Money/Wealth
- The 10th Amendment is found in the Bill of Rights and was designed to maintain the power of the ____________ in the federal balance.
- States
- The type of federalism most closely identified with Madison and featuring essentially equal national and state government is called ___________.
- Dull Federalism
- A shared body of general values and attitudes that shapes views toward government are called political ____________.
- Ideology
- The supremacy clause gives the national government dominance over the state.
- True
- The new deal is associated with with president?
- FDR
- The necessary and proper phrase was first expressed in a meaningful was in the case of _______________.
- Mccoloch Vs. Maryland
- The example of "hanging" a dummy on a bridge was designed to help you understad the powers of the federal government to regulate ________________.
- Interstate Commerce
- A New England town meeting is an example of
- Direct Democracy
- Organizing on the bases of ones sex, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation to compete for pulic resources is called ___________ politics.
- Identity
- The attempt to break into demoractic national committee headquarters in 1972 that ultimately lead to presetident Richard Nixon resignation for his role in attempting to over up the breakin and other criminal and unethical actions is called the _____________ scandel.
- Watergate
- The example i used in class that involves a student going fishing in lake champlain was designed to emphisises the courts interpretation of the __________ clause of the constitution.
- Elastic Cluse
- George W. Bush and my colleagues F. Gregory Gause, III disgree over the question: is ____________ the answer to the global terrorism?
- Democracy
- We define the political system as; "as set of interelated activities that derives their interrelatedness from the fact that they are all more or less involved with the athoritative allocation of ___________ for the whole _____________.
- Values; Society
- We discussed two ways in which the political systems are "boundaried" one was by contract the other was by ___________.
- Geography
- In the Political Values diagram what are the five levels in order?
- Constitution, Federal laws, Administrative rules/regulations, discretion, and court decisions
- I have the authority but not the power to flunk the entire class for the semester.
- True
- The ___________ clause of the constitution has been most offen used in conjunction with the necessary and proper clause to expaned the power of the national government over the states.
- Elastic
- When the founders created the constitution they ended up creating a strong national givernment to replace the "league of frienship" (called the articles of confederation) created earlier.
- False
- One of the mechanisms for political recruitment in America is popular elections. Name another.
- Apointment
- On the first day of class GOD descended in our classroom and asked a question. The answer to the question was the ___________ between the social and physical sciences.
- The Gap
- One of the ways the founders limited the power of the federal government was to limit presidential terms to two.
- False
- The deep South has a political culture that might best be characterized as individualistic.
- False
- When the declaration of Independence states, "all men are created equal," it means...
- All people are born with equal standing before government and are entitled to equal right
- The 10th Amendment is found in the Bill of ___________ and was designed to maintain the power of the states in the federal balance.
- Rights
- In a federal system
- the nation government cannot abolish a state.
- The core beliefs and values of Americans regarding govenment are found in which one of the "founding" documents?
- Declaration of Independence
- The American Government works becasue it was designed ______________ and as such is functioning perfectly.
- not to work
- In the debate over American exceptionalism, Wilfred McClay argues that the American "myth" that originates from its founding narrative helps to sustain and unite a _____________ population.
- Diverse
- In the British system of government the prime minister is always a member of _____________.
- The party in power
- Many political scientists argue that while Roe V. Wade was based on weak constitutional law, it was very good ________________.
- Public Policy
- I used the case of abortion policy that has political scientiest your primary concern should be?
- When life can properly be difined as being human
- The Great Compromise called for what?
- Called for a legislature with two houses, one based on population, one based on equal representation for each state