AP Government T and F

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A political issue arises when people disagree about a problem or about a public policy choice made to combat a problem.

True

A recent study of college freahman found that among the class of 2003 only 26 percent said that "keeping up with politics" was as important priority for them-compared to 73 percent of their parents' generation.

True

Most western nations have a system of national health isurance through the government that provides most health care.

False

The United States has one of the highest voter turnout rates in world.

True

The more participation in a democracy, the healthier the democracy is thought to be.

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The national government employs nearly ten million people.

True

The national government in the United States now spends approximately 1.7 trillion every year.

False

The voter turnout rate in the United States is one of the highest in the world.

True

According to James Madison, factions arise from the unequal distribution of wealth.

True

Accordint to Robert Putnam, many of the problems of American democracy today stem from a decline in group-based participation.

False

Burning the flag is legally protected form of political expression.

False

The 3/5 compromise at the Constitutional Convention resolved delegates' differences over the issue of state representation.

False

The Annapolis meeting of 1787 produced the first real reform of the Articles of Confederation.

False

The Connecticut Compromise at the Constitutional Convention led to an agreement that slaves would be counted as the 3/5 persons in the census for purposes of determining representation in Congress.

False

The Connecticut Compromise gives more power to the House of Representatives.

True

The Constitution obligated the new government to repay all the public debt incurred under the Continental Congress and the Articles of Confederation.

False

The Declaration of Independence was written primarily by James Madison.

True

The philsosphy of the writers of the Constitution was based in part on the belief that principal object of government was the preservation of property.

False

The revolutionary expansion of channels and Web sites anticipated in the near future is likely to enhance the political interest and involvement of young people

True

The system of checks and balances and the seperation of powers in the Constitution has a conservative bias because it favors the status quo.

False

The turnout rate for people under 25 has fallen from 50 percent in 1972 to just 33 percent in 1996.

False

The writers of the Constitution were unanimously and devotedly committed to democracy.

True

Very few policies are made by a single policy-making institutuion in the United States.

True

When taxes do not grow, tax revenue must grow to pay the additional costs, or a budget deficit results.

False

"Government by the people" is a meaningful and useful definition of democracy.

True

A federal system of government was designed by the founders so that state governments, where most of the governmental activity was expected to take place, would acts as checks on the power of the national government.

False

All issues on the governments policy agenda are carefully considered by public officials.

True

Elite theorists believe that whoever is elected to office in the federal government has little influence of policymaking.

True

Government in the U.S. actually does less than the governments of similar countries.

False

Government often acts on issues that are not especially high on the policy agenda.

False

Governments have little incentive to provide public goods.

True

In a democracy, public officials are supposed to pay attention to the problems that concern voters.

False

In the "kitchen debate" between Nixon and Khrushchev, Nixon predicted that Khrushchev's grandchildren would live in a democracy-but her was wrong.

False

It is clear that ordinary citizens can make sound political judgments on technical issues in our society.

False

Kevin Phillips' description of the 1980s as the "triumph of upper America" is evidence of hyperpluralism in the United States.

True

Most delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 held a cynical view of human nature.

False

Most governmental policies are made by a single institution.

True

Pluralist theory holds that because so many groups compete for power in the United States, none has a majority say and public policy roughly approximates the public interest.

True

Public goods are things that everyone shares, such as clean air.