POLI 2051 Robert Hogan Final EXAM 2026-2027 LATEST
VERSION QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
Which of the following limits judicial power?
Select one:
a. judicial review
b. judicial activism
c. stare decisis
d. life tenure - answer>>c. stare decisis
Who nominates judges to the U.S. district courts?
Select one:
a. the president
b. the House of Representatives
c. the Senate
d. the Supreme Court - answer>>a. the president
Who represents the federal government in appeals to the Supreme Court?
Select one:
a. attorney general
b. president
c. solicitor general
d. chief prosecutor - answer>>c. solicitor general
Financially, who benefits the most from the military-industrial complex?
Select one:
a. Congress
b. the president
c. defense contractors
,d. taxpayers - answer>>c. defense contractors
How might democracy distort budgeting?
Select one:
a. The income tax is a progressive tax.
b. Politicians spend public funds and give tax cuts to win votes.
c. Funds are borrowed from foreign governments.
d. Congress approves taxes and appropriations. - answer>>b. Politicians spend public funds and give tax
cuts to win votes.
In what sense is Social Security spending uncontrollable?
Select one:
a. Congress determines how much it will spend for Social Security each year.
b. Social Security spending varies according to how much money is available in the Social Security Trust
Fund.
c. Congress has enacted laws that make Social Security payments automatic for all those who are
eligible.
d. Social Security requires funding from excise taxes that are unpredictable from year to year. -
answer>>c. Congress has enacted laws that make Social Security payments automatic for all those who
are eligible.
In what sense is Social Security spending uncontrollable?
Select one:
a. Congress determines how much it will spend for Social Security each year.
b. Social Security spending varies according to how much money is available in the Social Security Trust
Fund.
c. Congress has enacted laws that make Social Security payments automatic for all those who are
eligible.
, d. Social Security requires funding from excise taxes that are unpredictable from year to year. -
answer>>c. Congress has enacted laws that make Social Security payments automatic for all those who
are eligible.
The fact that 43 percent of people filing income tax returns in 2013 paid no income tax at all is partly
explained by the fact that the income tax is __________.
Select one:
a. regressive
b. progressive
c. proportional
d. flat - answer>>b. progressive
The increase in __________ threatens the viability of the intergenerational system for funding Social
Security.
Select one:
a. birthrates
b. life expectancy
c. social insurance taxes
d. the size of the working population - answer>>b. life expectancy
The Social Security Act was enacted in __________.
Select one:
a. 1865
b. 1890
c. 1935
d. 1964 - answer>>c. 1935
The __________ Amendment permits Congress to levy income taxes.
Select one:
a. Sixteenth
VERSION QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
Which of the following limits judicial power?
Select one:
a. judicial review
b. judicial activism
c. stare decisis
d. life tenure - answer>>c. stare decisis
Who nominates judges to the U.S. district courts?
Select one:
a. the president
b. the House of Representatives
c. the Senate
d. the Supreme Court - answer>>a. the president
Who represents the federal government in appeals to the Supreme Court?
Select one:
a. attorney general
b. president
c. solicitor general
d. chief prosecutor - answer>>c. solicitor general
Financially, who benefits the most from the military-industrial complex?
Select one:
a. Congress
b. the president
c. defense contractors
,d. taxpayers - answer>>c. defense contractors
How might democracy distort budgeting?
Select one:
a. The income tax is a progressive tax.
b. Politicians spend public funds and give tax cuts to win votes.
c. Funds are borrowed from foreign governments.
d. Congress approves taxes and appropriations. - answer>>b. Politicians spend public funds and give tax
cuts to win votes.
In what sense is Social Security spending uncontrollable?
Select one:
a. Congress determines how much it will spend for Social Security each year.
b. Social Security spending varies according to how much money is available in the Social Security Trust
Fund.
c. Congress has enacted laws that make Social Security payments automatic for all those who are
eligible.
d. Social Security requires funding from excise taxes that are unpredictable from year to year. -
answer>>c. Congress has enacted laws that make Social Security payments automatic for all those who
are eligible.
In what sense is Social Security spending uncontrollable?
Select one:
a. Congress determines how much it will spend for Social Security each year.
b. Social Security spending varies according to how much money is available in the Social Security Trust
Fund.
c. Congress has enacted laws that make Social Security payments automatic for all those who are
eligible.
, d. Social Security requires funding from excise taxes that are unpredictable from year to year. -
answer>>c. Congress has enacted laws that make Social Security payments automatic for all those who
are eligible.
The fact that 43 percent of people filing income tax returns in 2013 paid no income tax at all is partly
explained by the fact that the income tax is __________.
Select one:
a. regressive
b. progressive
c. proportional
d. flat - answer>>b. progressive
The increase in __________ threatens the viability of the intergenerational system for funding Social
Security.
Select one:
a. birthrates
b. life expectancy
c. social insurance taxes
d. the size of the working population - answer>>b. life expectancy
The Social Security Act was enacted in __________.
Select one:
a. 1865
b. 1890
c. 1935
d. 1964 - answer>>c. 1935
The __________ Amendment permits Congress to levy income taxes.
Select one:
a. Sixteenth
