USAFA Poli Sci 211 Exam Questions And
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Aristocracy - Answer✔A form of government in which power is held by the nobility.
Jefferson's correspondnce to Adams references the grounds for natural aristocracy as -
Answer✔ambition and talents
the issue of slavery dealt with in the decleration of independence was - Answer✔no dealt with because
Jefferson's paragraph on slavery was removed from the final version
One reason for the frequent elections for the House of Representatives , according to Hamilton in their
essays on Congress, is to ensure the members of Congress are - Answer✔dependent on the people
On the subject of governmental forms, Tocqueville argues - Answer✔forms become more neccessary in
proportion as the government becomes more active
Tocqueville argues that men living in democratic ages - Answer✔feel an instinctive contempt for forms
Tocqueville's forms - Answer✔governmental processes
Lincoln's 1838 address, " The perpetuation of our Political Institutions", argues - Answer✔the legacy of
political instituions left to us by the Founding Fathers ensures that liberty will flourish
Lincoln's 1838 address, " The perpetuation of our Political Institutions", says the strongest bulwark (
person, instiution that acts as a defense) of any government is - Answer✔the natural right of the people
to amend bad laws through the use of institutions
Lincoln's 1838 address, " The perpetuation of our Political Institutions", argues that intelligence,
morality, and reverence for the Constitution should be molded from - Answer✔reason
According to MLK's letter from a Birmingham jail, a just law - Answer✔uplifts human personality and
makes a positive contribution to a group's advancement in a society
According to MLK's letter from a Birmingham jail, how shall an unjust law be broken - Answer✔through
nonviolent action to raise the social consciousness of a society, openly , and with a willingness to accept
consequences
Patrick Henry's Give Me Liberty of Give me Death Speech argues - Answer✔the colonies had done
everything possible to avoid war with Great Britian
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According to the Decleration of Independence, governments are created - Answer✔to secure certain
unaleinable rights
Virginia Plan included - Answer✔the national executive would be elected by the people, national
legislature would be comprised of 2 houses, the first branch of the national legislature would be elected
by the people, and the second branch of the national legislature would be elected by the first branch
Article VI ( 6) of the US Constitution contains the supremacy clause, which generally means -
Answer✔the Constitution is the supreme law of the land
the Four " great objects" Madison's notes of the Convention discussed as being central to debate among
the delegates were - Answer✔4 points
-clashing pretensions of the large and small states,
-uniting proper Executive energy with proper legislative stability, while preserving republican forms,
-provide for different interests of different parts of the country
-allotting power between the national and state levels of government
The component of goverment that Madison considers the " great anchor of government" - Answer✔the
judiciary
Lincoln v Douglas Debate, Lincoln argued - Answer✔...
Tocqueville argues that the defining social condition of America is - Answer✔independent
Tocqueville argues that ____ had a profound effect on equality in America - Answer✔laws of man
Tocqueville argues that ____ is the central political consequence of America's soical condition in the
early 19th centuty - Answer✔the difficulty of discovering a medium between the soverignity of all and
the soverignity of one person
Tocqueville believes that as a sociey moves from aristocracy to democracy the chain of social connection
within society - Answer✔breaks the chain and severs every link
Federalism is important according to Thomas Jefferson because - Answer✔it makes the people feel
unified under a new national government
basic standard of substantive democracy is that government must guarantee - Answer✔-civil rights and
liberties
Tocqueville explains "forms" in demoscratic government as - Answer✔more necessary in proportion as
the government becomes more active and powerful
Janda's modern dilemma - Answer✔freedom v equality
Snow and Broqn state that Lockean values distort US perceptions of global realities by - Answer✔such
values could transform foreign policy contest into crusades of good v evil
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