PLSC 2003 EXAM 1 – uark questions
with correct answers (8)
Sherman Plan - correct answer ✔✔Lower chamber appropriated by population and the upper chamber
equally
Patterson Plan - correct answer ✔✔-accepted Supremacy Plan but rejected the idea that "Congressional
disallowance and coercion"
-called for a revamped Continental Congress with added powers
-equality of the states
-Federal Judiciary final arbiter of inter-level conflict
Great Compromise - correct answer ✔✔-added that all revenue rising measures must start in lower
chamber
-merged Sherman and Patterson Plans
Electoral College - correct answer ✔✔-states vote as a unit-majority of states needed to win
-if not, House chooses
Slavery - correct answer ✔✔largely contested but resolved by 3/5 compromise
Federalism - correct answer ✔✔system of government in which powers are divided and shared by a
central government and its sub-divisional governements
Federal Government - correct answer ✔✔-interstate and international commerce
-ratifying treaties with foreign countries
-maintaining national armed forces
State Governments - correct answer ✔✔-provision and maintenance of infrastructure
, -public safety and police
-regulating interstate business matters
Local Governments - correct answer ✔✔-zoning ordinance
-city or municipal water and sewage
Dual Federalism - correct answer ✔✔-a political arrangement in which power is divided between the
federal and state governments in clearly defined terms, with state governments exercising those powers
accorded to them without interference from the federal government.
-getting involved with work place safety, child labor laws, and world war I veterans
-"layer cake"
Cooperative Federalism - correct answer ✔✔-a concept of federalism in which national, state, and local
governments interact collectively to solve common problems
-economy went to shit
-"marble cake"
New Federalism - correct answer ✔✔-"de-evolve" back to the state level
-changes: money/regulations
Democracy - correct answer ✔✔-a system of government where the control of the group or organization
is by a majority of its members
-a system that is ruled of law
-major principles of democracy are equality and liberty
-"for the people, by the people"
Pluralism - correct answer ✔✔-two or more groups coexist and create equilibrium
-theory of how the system works
-many groups and everyone has the right to be heard
with correct answers (8)
Sherman Plan - correct answer ✔✔Lower chamber appropriated by population and the upper chamber
equally
Patterson Plan - correct answer ✔✔-accepted Supremacy Plan but rejected the idea that "Congressional
disallowance and coercion"
-called for a revamped Continental Congress with added powers
-equality of the states
-Federal Judiciary final arbiter of inter-level conflict
Great Compromise - correct answer ✔✔-added that all revenue rising measures must start in lower
chamber
-merged Sherman and Patterson Plans
Electoral College - correct answer ✔✔-states vote as a unit-majority of states needed to win
-if not, House chooses
Slavery - correct answer ✔✔largely contested but resolved by 3/5 compromise
Federalism - correct answer ✔✔system of government in which powers are divided and shared by a
central government and its sub-divisional governements
Federal Government - correct answer ✔✔-interstate and international commerce
-ratifying treaties with foreign countries
-maintaining national armed forces
State Governments - correct answer ✔✔-provision and maintenance of infrastructure
, -public safety and police
-regulating interstate business matters
Local Governments - correct answer ✔✔-zoning ordinance
-city or municipal water and sewage
Dual Federalism - correct answer ✔✔-a political arrangement in which power is divided between the
federal and state governments in clearly defined terms, with state governments exercising those powers
accorded to them without interference from the federal government.
-getting involved with work place safety, child labor laws, and world war I veterans
-"layer cake"
Cooperative Federalism - correct answer ✔✔-a concept of federalism in which national, state, and local
governments interact collectively to solve common problems
-economy went to shit
-"marble cake"
New Federalism - correct answer ✔✔-"de-evolve" back to the state level
-changes: money/regulations
Democracy - correct answer ✔✔-a system of government where the control of the group or organization
is by a majority of its members
-a system that is ruled of law
-major principles of democracy are equality and liberty
-"for the people, by the people"
Pluralism - correct answer ✔✔-two or more groups coexist and create equilibrium
-theory of how the system works
-many groups and everyone has the right to be heard
