Ap Government Unit 1 Answers – Flashcards
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Individuals have power when they're able to
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The text notes a tendency for issues that once were ________ to become ________.
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By "authority," the authors mean
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The primary source of legitimate political authority in the United States is the
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The author cites the early presidential administrations, the Civil War, and the New Deal as examples of struggles over
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The text suggests that, in the United States, no government at any level would be considered legitimate if it were not in some sense
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Representative democracy allows individuals to gain political power through
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Representative democracy is sometimes disapprovingly referred to as the _______ theory of democracy.
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When the Framers of the Constitution wrote "republican form of government," they were referring to
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Which statement best reflects the views of the Framers of the Constitution?
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The Founders assumed that representative democracy would
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Under what circumstances would majoritarian politics normally not be effective?
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Wright Mills, Karl Marx, and Max Weber are cited in the text as theorists who attempted to explain the
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Marxists claim that, in modern society, the two major classes contending for power are the
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Which theorist suggested that a coalition of three groups dominates politics and government?
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Which of the following conceptualizes the widest distribution of political power--or places it in the largest number of hands?
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Which of the following statements regarding the Constitutional convention is incorrect?
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One of the basic liberties sought by the colonists through independence from Great Britain was
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The liberties that the colonists fought to protect were based on
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The author of the Declaration of Independence was
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Which of the following statements about the Declaration of Independence is correct?
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The Articles of Confederation attempted to create a
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All of the following were true of the government under the Articles of Confederation except that
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If the United States were operating today under the Articles of Confederation, issues such as the effect of acid rain on the environment would be handled by
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The effect of Shay's Rebellion on the attendance by delegates at the planned Constitutional Convention of 1787 was to
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Locke suggested that the chief limitation of government should arrive from the fact that it
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Which of the following does not make up the structure of the Declaration of Independence?
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The central issue in the framing of the U.S. Constitution was that of
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The national legislature would have had the power to veto state laws under the
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The New Jersey Plan was a reaction by some states primarily to the fear that
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Each state would have had an equal number of votes in the legislature under the
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The great compromise finally allocated representation on the basis of
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Among the many compromises worked out at the Constitutional convention of 1787 after the adoption of the great compromise was that of the
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Dividing power between the states and the national government is referred to as
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Those powers that are given to the national government exclusively are _________ powers.
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Those powers that are given exclusively to the states are _________ powers.
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Collecting taxes, building roads, borrowing money, and having courts would be example of _________ powers.
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Separation of powers and federalism were two key principles in the framing of the U.S. Constitution. These two principles are related in that each
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The text suggests the Federalists might have been more accurately called the
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The text suggests the Anti-Federalist might have been more accurately called the
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Generally, the Anti-Federalist felt that the government created by the U.S. Constitution was
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It quickly became clear that the Constitution would not be ratified without at least the promise of
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The U.S. Constitution failed to outlaw slavery because
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Three-fifths of the slaves were counted for purposes of
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The U.S. Constitution provided that slaves escaping to a free state were to
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Compared to Federalists, Anti-Federalist tended to favor a
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Pluralist theory contends that in the United States
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Which of the following is not one of the four key ideals expressed in the Declaration
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The presiding officer at the Philadelphia convention was
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List the six purpose of government stated in the preamble of the U.S. Constitution.
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