Government Exam 1

The power of Congress to charter a bank is an example of what type of power?

Implied

Article 1 of the Confederation refers to the

legislative branch

Two major purposes of government

maintaining order and providing public goods

Amendments to the constitution may be proposed by 2/3 votes in both the House and the Senate or by a

national convention

A symmetrical, bell-shaped distribution around a single mode is called a

normal distribution

The text of the Constitution deals with slavery by

not mentioning it directly

as students move from elementary school, to high school, their political socialization tends to transition from knowledge of ___ to development of _____.

patriotic ritual; good citizenship

The main positive result of the Annapolis Convention was

a call for a larger meeting of the states, with a broader mission

A confederation can best be described as

a loose association of independent states

Children are likely to adopt their parents' party identification when

both parents strongly identify with the same party

The __________ gives Congress the power to regulate commerce among the states

commerce clause

The vast majority of recent preemptions have focused on

environmental protection and homeland security

National Sovereignty is threatened by

globalization

A notable trend in the backgrounds of recent presidents is experience as a

governor

The Daughter of Liberty opposed British rule by

spinning their own cloth and using colonial products rather than buying imported British products

The plan presented at the Constitutional Convention generally favored by large states was

the Virginia Plan

One result of the Second Continental Congress was

the adoption of the Declaration of Independence

The original procedure for selecting the vice president, under the electoral college, was

the candidate with next-greatest number of votes would become vice president

Historian Jack Rakove argues that in the Declaration of Independence ,Thomas Jefferson was arguing for

the collective right of revolution and self-government

The constitution explicitly recognizes

the national government and state governments

The chief obstacle to ratification of the Constitution by the states was

the omission of a bill rights

Article VI of the constitution contains provisions establishing

the supremacy clause and the no religious test clause

Conflicts related to power-sharing between states and the national government are settled by

the supreme court

The Articles of Confederation failed because

they did not provide an effective means for the government to raise money, they did not include an independent leader to direct the government, and they did not give the government the power to regulate commerce.

The goal of the statistical theory

to reflect the views of the population with some predictable degree of accuracy

Learning political party identification from parents is known as the ______ model of partisanship

transmission

The set values and beliefs that a person holds about the purpose and scope of government is called

political ideology

The assignment in the Constitution of lawmaking, law-enforcing, and law-interpreting functions to the legislative, executive, and judicial branches respectively is known as

separation of powers

Which metaphor best describes dual federalism?

A layer cake

Which metaphor best describes cooperative federalism?

A marble cake

The American Revolution effectively ended with the surrender of Cornwallis and his army at Yorktown in

1781

Which amendment does the text categorize as "disastrous"?

18th amendment

The ________ Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures

4th

What was heard from some 20,000 protesters, many of them women, in October of 1932 as they demanded repeal of the 18th amendment

"We want beer"

Congressional redistricting occurs once every______ years

10

A proponent of states' rights and enumerated powers would be more likely to quote the ______ amendment of the constitution

10th

Including the Bill of Rights,___________ amendments have been added to the Constitution

27

The ________ amendment protects against excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishment

8th

The Federalist papers were drafted by

Adams, Hamilton, and Jay

The Great Depression represented a shift away from _______ and toward _________

Dual federalism, cooperative federalism

After the failure of the Articles of Confederation, the founders adopted a _________form of government, strong enough to maintain order but not to dominate the states

Federal

One of the nation's oldest polls, the __________, was started in the 1930s, and was most notably wrong in 1948 when it predicted that Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate, would defeat the Democratic incumbent, Harry Truman in the presidential election.

Gallup poll

Which of the following statements reflects the role public opinion should play according to the majoritarian model of democracy?

Government should do what majority of the public wants

Which of the following statements concerning Latinos is incorrect?

Latinos are a racial group

Which document proclaimed "Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not expressly delegated to the United States"?

The Articles of Confederation

U.N. Charter, Article 2.1

The organization is based o the principle of the sovereign equality of all its members

According to the New Jersey Plan, how was representation to be structured in Congress?

There would be one house, and all states would have equal representation in it

Under separation of powers, the U.S. system keeps power among branches balanced by enabling one branch to counter the actions of another by the use of

checks and balances

According to the self-interest principle, people tend to

choose what benefits them personally

The use of the highway construction funds has been an effective means to promote

cooperative federalism

Generally, the first agent of political socialization that people are exposed to is

family

A sample of six hundred randomly selected individuals is usually accurate to (plus or minus)

five percentage points

Individuals with higher education and income tend to favor _____ over ____

freedom; order or equality

The contemporary political "gender gap" refers to the tendency of women to

identify more with the Democratic party than men do

A power not specifically mentioned in the constitution but necessary if another specific grant of power is to be carried out is called an _____ power

implied

Preclearance is the process of

submitting redistricting plans to the Justice Department for approval

Pressure on an individual to conform to community values or views is strongest when

the community is homogeneous