National Government

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

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The Courts have repeatedly supported the exercise of prior restraints.

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The federal system in the United States centralizes our politics.

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In the decades since the Miranda decision, the Supreme Court has made no exceptions to its requirements.

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McCulloch v. Maryland was a victory for those advocating the states' position as supreme over the national government.

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Most nations of the world have federal systems.

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The Bill of Rights allows a group to hold a spontaneous demonstration anytime, anywhere, and anyway it chooses.

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

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The Constitution requires members of the electoral college to vote for the candidate preferred by their state's electorate.

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The Declaration of Independence was written primarily by James Madison.

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In early American society, married women could have no legal identity separate from that of their husbands.

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

T

According to the text, there is no doubt that 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.

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After each census, the U.S. Senate is reapportioned to reallocate how many Senate seats each state has based on population changes.

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After winning the right to vote for women, the feminist movement gained momentum in the 1920s.

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All issues on the government's policy agenda are carefully considered by public officials.

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Civil disobedience is a form of conventional political participation.

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Most of our knowledge and opinions about politics is learned through formal, in-class learning.

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Nearly every successful amendment to the Constitution has been proposed by a national convention.

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Public opinion polls routinely find that the American public has a high level of knowledge about the major political issues that candidates and government officials talk about.

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The poorest and least-educated Americans are those who are most likely to turn out and vote in elections.

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The right to privacy is specifically guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.

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Those who opposed the ratification of the Constitution were known as Federalists.

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Different wording of questions in public opinion polling can produce dramatically different results.

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

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Many of the litigations in cases raising constitutional questions about sexual discrimination have been men seeking quality with women in their treatment under the law.

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

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Nowhere does the Bill of Rights explicitly state that Americans have a right to privacy.

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The Constitution says that the states must return a person charged with a crime in another state to that state for trial or imprisonment.

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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.

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Majority rule sometimes conflicts with individual rights.

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The median family income of Asian Americans is greater than that of non-Hispanic whites.

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

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The war on terrorism has resulted in increased demands on the president.

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The wealthy are more likely to vote than are the poor.

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The word equality does NOT appear in the original Constitution.

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With the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, adult women throughout the United Sates were allowed to vote in the presidential election of 1920.

T

Federalism is unique to the Western Hemisphere.

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Historically, equality in American society has tended to emphasize equal rights.

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In Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that the public order requiring Japanese Americans to be removed from the west coast during World War II and placed in internment camps was racist and unconstitutional.

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In the United States, a census is taken every five years.

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In the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme court ruled that race could never be considered in admission policies, and declared all affirmative action programs to be unconstitutional.

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In the case of Roe v. Wade (1973), the Supreme Court outlawed any state laws to restrict a women's right to an abortion at any point in her pregnancy.

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Since 1995, the Supreme Court has consistently supported the use of affirmative action in both public and private sector.

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The Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty violates the equal protection of the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

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The Tenth Amendment is sometimes called the supremacy clause, because it reinforces the power of the national government over the states governments.

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According to James Morrison, factions arise from the unequal distribution of property.

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Amendments to the Constitution over the nation's history have expanded the American electorate by extending the right to vote to women, non-whites, and 18-year-ols, thus further democratizing our system of government.

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Between 1990 and 2000, minority populations grew at a much faster rate than the white population.

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Commercial speech, such as advertising, is restricted far more extensively than expressions of opinion on religious, political, or other nations.

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Congress recently made an exception to the full faith and credit provisions by passing the Defense of Marriage Act, which allows states to not recognize same-sex marriage conducted in Hawaii.

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Elite theorists believe that whoever is elected to office in the federal government has little influence on policy making.

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In Gibbons v. Ogden, the Supreme Court ruled that national government's power to regulate interstate commerce encompasses virtually every form of commercial activity.

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In recent years, the Supreme Court has scrutinized Congress's use of the commerce clause with a skeptical eye, overturning congressional legislation in various decisions.

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Laissez-faire economic policies promote free markets and limited government.

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

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

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Slanders refers to making spoken statements known to be false that are malicious and tend to damage a person's reputation, and the courts have ruled that each spoken defamation are not permitted by freedom of speech.

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The Fifth Amendment forbids forced self-incrimination, stating that no person "shall be compelled to be a witness against himself".

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The United Nations is an example of a confederation.

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