Exam 2 Review
The framers dealt with the issue of slavery by...
Compromising and delaying
Nietzsche argued that because man tended to be sameness he was like a...
Cow (Herd Animal)
The amendment which gives 18-year-olds the right to vote is the...
26th
The most important factor in determining if someone will vote is...
Education level
True or False: As a woman, I would have great individual power and freedom under the rules of the Mayflower Compact
False
True or False: Because of the experienced with the British soldiers during the Revolutionary war that the third amendment protects the rights of U.S. citizens to never have to let soldier stay in their home or feed them.
False
True or False: Nietzche viewed the Enlightenment as a means for finding the Truth and giving man new purpose.
False
True or False: People in the military have higher levels of Constitutional protections than regular citizens, particularly in times of war?
False
True or False: The Twenty-Third Amendment of the Constitution limits presidents to two terms.
False
True or False: The founders of Plymouth wrote a social contract while on the Mayflower. This covenant allowed for perfect religious freedom. They desired freedom of religion as they themselves were escaping persecution.
False
True or False: Tocqueville predicted that American book stores would be full of nonfiction works due to our hardworking nature and desire for cold hard facts.
False
True or False: When voter turnout is high the Republican Party tends to do better because they have more loyal voters?
False
The ____ Amendment of the Constitution prohibited the states from depriving individuals of the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
Fifteenth
A unitary system of government has power in...
One entity
To secure ratification, supporters of the Constitution promised...
Presidential veto power
The effect of the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution, which enfranchised eighteen to twenty-year-olds was to...
Reduce the overall national voter turnout rate
The power of the national and state governments to take private property for public use is called...
The right of eminent domain
Free speech protects criticism of public figures...
even if it is outrageous and offensive
In the Electoral College, each state is accorded...
1 vote for each of its representatives and senators
Tocqueville worried that in an industrial society the developed of comforts led to...
A dependence on material goods and comforts
Which of the following adjectives doe NOT describe the Founders.
Aged
The delegates of the Constitutional Convention can best be described as...
All white male landowners
The judicial branch is found in which Article often Constitution?
Article I
Which Article of the Constitution grants Congress its legislative powers?
Article I
Which article parodies for methods of amending the Constitution?
Article V
The Twenty-third Amendment to the Constitution...
Awarded three electoral votes to Washington D.C.
If the map of the U.S. was redrawn and each state's size was based upon the number of electoral votes each state had in the Electoral College which state would be the largest?
California
Shay's Rebellion seemed to indicate that...
Congress under the articles lacked power to confront national emergencies.
The plan that called for one house in which each state would have equal vote and a second house in which representation would be based on population was called the...
Connecticut compromise
African Americans tend to vote for...
Democrats
Congress's power to collect taxes, establish post offices, and regulate interstate commerce are examples of...
Enumerated powers
Specific powers assigned to Congress by the Constitution are called...
Enumerated powers
States are required to redraw their congressional districts lines after every census which occurs...
Every 10 years
The two amendments that may appear contradict each other are the...
Fifth and Eighth
Freedom from unreasonable searched and seizures is provided for by the...
Fourth Amendment
The issue of whether it is permissible for the Native American Church of California to use hallucinogenic drugs as part of a religious sacrament involves the...
Free exercise clause of the First Amendment
Which of the following has absolute protection under the First Amendment of the Constitution?
Freedom and religious belief
The constitutional provision that ensures that state courts enforce civil judgments of the courts of other states and accept their public records as valid is found in the...
Full faith and credit clause
Upon passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, women...
Got the right to vote
The Articles of Confederation created a...
Government that preserved the sovereignty of the states
The Great Compromise resolved the conflict between...
Highly populated and unpopulated states
The Full Faith and Credit Clause if found in which Article of the Constitution?
IV
Even though Congres is not specifically given the power to establish an internal revenue service, it has done so to implement its power to "lay and collect taxes." This is an example of a(n)______ power.
Implied
The necessary and proper clause of the Constitution is the basis for Congress's exercise of...
Implied powers
A confederation is a...
Loose association of independent states
The constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to eighteen passed in 1971 because...
Many adults thought that giving young people the vote would change their political participation away from protest, resistance, and other conventional methods.
The original intent of the Second Amendment was for a(n)...
Militia army
The plan that advocated a single house legislature where each state would have the same vote was called the...
New Jersey plan
Nietzsche stated that women were like the truth because they were...
Not what they appeared to be
Questions about how student uniforms in public schools involve conflicts between values of...
Order and freedom
Tocqueville argued that the best form of assistance to the indigent was...
Private assistance
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government could not protect merchants from heavy tariffs (tax when you move goods between states) because the national government did not have the power to...
Regulate interstate trade
Cuban Americans tend to vote for...
Republicans
The direct election of senators was established with the...
Seventeenth Amendment
The IRS became a necessary household work after the passing of the ____ amendment.
Sixteenth
Verbal false statements are called
Slander
A final compromise of the Constitution which did not go into effect until 1808 prohibited the...
Slave trade
Which of the following would be an example of the tyranny of the majority.
Slavery in the U.S.
In general, Federalists...
Supported the Constitution
Situations in which there is a conflict between state laws and national laws are covered by the...
Supremacy clause
All of the following are forms of non-protected speech EXCEPT...
Symbolic speech
One of the financial problems under the Articles of Confederation was that Congress had no power to...
Tax the people
The fact that your marriage in the state of Idaho must be honored in Nevada is an example of which of the constitutional principle?
The full faith and end credit clause
The paradox of democracy refers to:
The inherent potential for conflict between individual freedom and majority rule.
Anti-federalists attacked the proposed Constitution on the grounds that...
The national government it created was too strong
The arrangement whereby slaves would be counted for purposes of representation and taxation was called the...
Three-fifths compromise
True or False: An extension fo Tocqueville's argument on the arts would argue that today's popularity of music and movies is a result of democratic tendencies for immediate gratification and distraction.
True
True or False: As age increases so does the propensity to vote.
True
True or False: If I were to give you a guarantee of a substantive due process this would be far better for you than procedural due process?
True
True or False: Nietzsche argued that man needed to face obstacles or trials to develop greatness and is famous for saying "what doesn't kill me makes me stronger."
True
True or False: There are 535 full voting members of Congress.
True
True or False: Tocqueville argued that aristocratic societies tended to a desire for better-made products and were willing to wait for perfection unlike democratic societies that would have an "I want it now attitude".
True
True or False: Tocqueville predicted that Americans would prefer movies to books because we want to be distracted from our daily lives.
True
The lame duck amendment is the...
Twentieth
If we were living in the movie "Independence Day" and were invaded by aliens that killed the President the Vice President and the Secretary of State to which amendment would we look to know whom was next in line for Presidency?
Twenty-fifth
One amendment actually repeals another. Which amendment repeals prohibition?
Twenty-first
An amendment which ended the tax on voting was the...
Twenty-fourth
The plan that advocated a legislature with representation based on population or wealth was called the...
Virginia plan
Nietzsche argued that nihilism of the belief of nothing...
Would be impossible to overcome
Which of the following are NOT protected by the first amendment?
Your right shoot an intruder
