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Pregunta 1 de 69

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Who said it?
"Who gets what, when and how"

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Harold Lasswell

  • Lenin

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 69

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Who said it?
"who could do what to whom"

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Harold Lasswell

  • Lenin

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 69

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Who said it?
"The ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person’s intentions. "

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Wilson

  • Wasserman

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 69

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Who said it?
"The ability to influence another’s behavior."

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Wilson

  • Wasserman

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 69

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When was the Declaration of Independence written?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • June, 1776

  • July, 1776

  • August, 1776

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 69

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Rellena los espacios en blanco para completar el texto.

Our makes it .

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Pregunta 7 de 69

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When were the Articles of Confederation written?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1777

  • 1776

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 69

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Which of these are definitions of "politics"?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • "Who gets what, when and how." --Harold Lasswell

  • "The ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person’s intentions." --Wilson

  • "Who could do what to whom." --Lenin

  • “Should."

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 69

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Which of these are definitions of "power"?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • "The ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person’s intentions."--Wilson

  • "The ability to influence another’s behavior."--Wasserman

  • "Who could do what to whom."--Lenin

  • "Should."

  • Power, like money is a means to other ends.

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Pregunta 10 de 69

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Which of these is not a definition of "authority"?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The right to use power.

  • Legitimate power

  • Being able to force someone to do something, either through force or with charisma.

  • Legal basis

  • Accepted as right

  • "Should"

  • Deserves obedience

  • An efficient form of power (no need for force if you should obey)

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 69

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"Democracy" is derived form the Greek words "demos" (authority) and "kratos" (the people).

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 69

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A democracy made the framers nervous.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 69

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Who said it?
"A system of government in which ultimate political authority is vested in the people ."

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Wasserman

  • Wilson

  • Schmidt

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 69

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Which form of government is this quote referring to?
"A system of government in which ultimate political authority is vested in the people ."

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Democracy

  • Republic

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 69

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Rellena los espacios en blanco para completar el texto.

There are two types of Democracy: and .

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 69

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Who said it?
"A form of government in which representatives elected by the people make and enforce laws and policies."

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Schmidt

  • Wasserman

  • Wilson

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 69

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Where are we guaranteed a republican form of government?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Article 7, section 3

  • Article 5, section 2

  • Article 4, section 4

  • Article 4, section 2

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 69

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A Republic means representation, with the consent of the sovereign governed.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 69

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Who said it?
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time."

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Mrs. Klein

  • Wilson

  • Schmidt

  • Winston Churchill

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 69

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Who said it?
"Perhaps the biggest problem with modern Democracy is that then people may get exactly the government that they deserve."

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Winston Churchill

  • Wilson

  • Mrs. Klein

  • Schmidt

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 69

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A Democratic Republic does not derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 69

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Which of these are "The E's"?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Egalitarianism: All men are created equal…

  • Entropy: Nothing will be made to get worse.

  • Elite Power Theory: society is ruled by a small number of people who exercise power in their self interest. (Schmidt)

  • Energy: An ever growing democratic republic

  • American Elites: What makes us different: We believe we all have the potential to become elites if we work hard enough. Our elites aren’t born, they are MADE.

  • Elites: Those who get more than others of the values society has available. (Wasserman)

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 69

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Which of these documents is this excerpt from?
"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Declaration of Independence

  • The Articles of Confederation

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 69

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Check all the weaknesses of the Articles of the Confederation.

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The government had no power to enforce laws.

  • It was too complicated.

  • Every state got one vote.

  • Each state had an independent army.

  • Congress could not levy taxes.

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 69

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Which dates did these events take place on?
Philadelphia
____ – A small meeting at Mt. Vernon plans…
____ – A poorly attended Trade Conference in Annapolis. They decide to try again in…
____ – Philadelphia to hold a convention to Amend the Articles of Confederation.
Four months, and many speeches, prayers and political compromises later –
A CONSTITUTION!

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1785, 1786, 1787

  • 1785, 1786, 1788

  • 1786, 1787, 1788

  • 1785, 1788, 1788

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 69

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Our Constitution was not the FIRST Constitution IN the US – in 1776, eight states had Constitutions.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 69

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John Locke, a British Political Philosopher, thought that:

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Government possesses the power and the duty to mold human behavior

  • Government needs to take whatever actions necessary for the greater good--even if it means taking away some rights.

  • Government draws its authority from the divine

  • Government is to protect from human behavior (including the behavior of the government) – life, liberty and property

  • Unchecked power is tyranny

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 69

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Federalists thought that the government needed more control, while the anti-federalists thought it needed to remain not so powerful.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 69

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The Constitution addressed slavery, but the idea was quickly shot down by the southern representatives.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 69

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The nature of man is:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Evil to the core.

  • Wants to do good, but we fail.

  • Sinful, but redeemable.

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 69

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The Constitution must control our “lesser angels” and keep our appetites in check.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 69

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Who said it?
"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Wilson

  • Wasserman

  • Winston Churchill

  • Thomas Jefferson

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 69

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The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Democratic Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 69

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A federal system is like what type of relationship?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Club

  • Children

  • Marriage

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 69

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A Unitary Nation State is like what type of relationship?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Club

  • Children

  • Marriage

Explicación

Pregunta 36 de 69

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A Confederation is like what type of relationship?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Club

  • Children

  • Marriage

Explicación

Pregunta 37 de 69

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The four main constitutional principles are:

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Peace

  • Freedom

  • The Separation of Powers, and Checks and Balances

  • Federalism

  • Judicial Review

  • A Limited Government with a Living Constitution

Explicación

Pregunta 38 de 69

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Separation of Powers: The principle that the powers of government should be separated and put in the care of different parts of the government.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 39 de 69

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If men were angels, then government would still be necessary.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 40 de 69

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Rellena los espacios en blanco para completar el texto.

Separation of Powers – The

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Pregunta 41 de 69

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Legislative Function:

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Interpreting the laws

  • Passing laws

  • Congress

  • Carrying out, executing, implementing laws

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Pregunta 42 de 69

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Executive Function:

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Passing laws

  • Congress

  • Carrying out, executing, implementing laws

  • President

Explicación

Pregunta 43 de 69

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Judicial Function:

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Congress

  • Carrying out, executing, implementing laws

  • Interpreting the laws

  • Supreme Court

Explicación

Pregunta 44 de 69

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Rellena los espacios en blanco para completar el texto.

Bicameralism: Separating the body into two houses – The and

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Pregunta 45 de 69

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Which of these are true about Federalism?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Calls for political authority to be distributed between a central government and the government of the states. (“Shared Power”)

  • Both the federal and state governments may act directly on the people

  • Both the federal and state governments have some exclusive powers

  • Political authority is spread out to prevent power from being concentrated in any one group

Explicación

Pregunta 46 de 69

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The Great Compromise was just about large states vs. small states.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 47 de 69

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The 3/5ths Compromise had to do with how many votes a state got.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 48 de 69

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Legislature:
House
Popular Election
Population based representation
House
Selection by State Legislatures
2 Per State

Explicación

Pregunta 49 de 69

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The Bill of Rights was for the Federalists.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 50 de 69

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12 amendments sent out in 1789
10 amendments ratified by 1791
Became known as the Bill of Rights
Amendment #27 was finally ratified in 1992!

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 51 de 69

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The Supremacy Clause is in:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Article 6, section 2

  • Article 4, section 4

Explicación

Pregunta 52 de 69

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The tenth amendment is about reserved powers.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 53 de 69

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--: to send responsibility and sometimes resources to a lower (more responsive?) level of government

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Pregunta 54 de 69

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Devolution is a combination of devolve and revolution.
Negative spin: Reversing an evolutionary trend

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 55 de 69

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The three types of law are:

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Constitutional

  • Federal

  • Statutory

  • Common law/Judge made law

Explicación

Pregunta 56 de 69

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Which of these is not a definition of "precedent?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The judicial practice by which the courts generally follow previous decisions involving the same issue. (Wasserman)

  • The ability to influence another’s behavior. (Wasserman)

  • A judicial ruling that permits the court ruling settling an old case to govern the rule used to settle a similar new one (G.Q. Wilson)

  • Stare Decisis – to stand on decided cases; the judicial policy of following precedents established by past decisions. (Schmidt)

Explicación

Pregunta 57 de 69

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Which of these are definitions of Judicial Review?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The judicial practice by which the courts generally follow previous decisions involving the same issue. (Wasserman)

  • The power of the federal courts to test federal and state legislative enactments and other actions by the standards of what the Constitution grants and withholds. (findlaw

  • Stare Decisis – to stand on decided cases; the judicial policy of following precedents established by past decisions. (Schmidt)

  • The power of the courts to declare acts of the legislature and the executive unconstitutional, and therefore null and void. (Wasserman)

Explicación

Pregunta 58 de 69

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Rellena el espacio en blanco para completar el texto.

Article 6 was directed at assuring that didn’t do anything that conflicted with the supreme national law.

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Pregunta 59 de 69

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(1803)
Set the precedent for Judicial Review
Said that a section of the Judiciary Act of 1789 exceeded the constitutional authority granted by Article III
Judicial Review - the Supreme Court is the final arbiter of what the constitution means
Allows the Supreme Court to declare a statute or governmental action “unconstitutional”
This is especially important for the review of state activities for constitutionality

Explicación

Pregunta 60 de 69

1

Rellena el espacio en blanco para completar el texto.

(1819)
An expansion of federal powers
Said that the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18) gave Congress the flexibility to create a National Bank as an aid to carrying out its enumerated borrowing and taxing powers and that Maryland's taxation of the bank violated the Supremacy Clause (Article 6, Clause 2)
Laid the groundwork for a significantly more significant federal government!
Answered a pivotal question about who would be the “most equal”
This is especially important in terms of both the size and scope of the federal government and in terms of the balance of powers

Explicación

Pregunta 61 de 69

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vs. (1824)
Established that the power to regulate interstate commerce was an exclusive national power
Forbade states from enacting any legislation that would interfere with Congress's right to regulate commerce among the separate states

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Pregunta 62 de 69

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v (1857)
First invalidation of a Federal Statute since Marbury vs. Madison
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 is unconstitutional; Congress cannot end slavery in the territories
Oh by the way, slaves aren’t people, I mean citizens

Explicación

Pregunta 63 de 69

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Only 28 out of over 11,000 submitted amendments have been ratified.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 64 de 69

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Which of these is the only way to directly change the constitution?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Judicial Review and Interpretation - They can change the meaning, but not the language

  • Legislative and Executive Actions - Fleshing out the bones of the blueprint

  • Amendment (or even a Convention)

  • Custom - Which sometimes becomes an amendment!

Explicación

Pregunta 65 de 69

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Which of these are the indirect ways to change the constitution?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Judicial Review and Interpretation - They can change the meaning, but not the language

  • Amendment (or even a Convention)

  • Legislative and Executive Actions - Fleshing out the bones of the blueprint

  • Custom - Which sometimes becomes an amendment!

Explicación

Pregunta 66 de 69

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Constitutions are about limiting government power.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 67 de 69

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"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." --

Explicación

Pregunta 68 de 69

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"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." --

Explicación

Pregunta 69 de 69

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This political compact means government actions must rest on the rule of law, approved however indirectly, by the consent of the sovereign governed. (Wasserman)

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

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