KU POLS 110 TEST 1 REVIEW UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

KU POLS 110 TEST 1 REVIEW UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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1. Marbury v. Madison is a landmark Supreme Court decision because it...
Answer:
Set the precedent for judicial review

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2. Economic Equality
Answer:
Excluded from American Political Culture

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3. What two political values are in conflict when discussing Welfare policy?
Answer:
Equality v. Individualism

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4. Government
Answer:
The institutions and processes through which a land and its people are ruled

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5. Autocracy
Answer:
Form of government in which a single individual - king, queen, or dictator - rules

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6. Why did Shay's Rebellion help enable collective action among those who wanted to revise the Articles
of Confederation?
Answer:
It provided politicians, who were already convinced of the inadequacies of the Articles, with the
ammunition they needed to convince a broader public to reform the Articles.

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7. Federalism, in historical terms, is a...
Answer:
Pragmatic principle, in that the relationship between the nation and the states has adapted to the needs of
the time

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8. "Necessary & Proper" Clause
Answer:
Most closely related to the concept of implied powers

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9. What were the political interests involved in the Great Compromise?
Answer:
The large and small states were the contending interests, and a bicameral legislature was the solution

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10. The Three-Fifths Compromise
Answer:
Provided for every slave to be counted as three-fifths of a person in determining the number of
representatives in government

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11. Which government institution was designed to be the most democratic and responsive to the people?
Answer:
The House of Representatives

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12. The terms "expressed" or "enumerated" powers means...
Answer:
Those powers specifically written in the Constitution

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13. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) established...
Answer:
That the "Necessary and Proper" Clause was interpreted broadly giving the Federal government more
options for non-enumerated powers

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14. One should describe the separation of powers as...
Answer:
Separate institutions sharing powers

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15. When in a political battle...
Answer:
The losing group seeks to enlarge the scope of conflict

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16. The separation of powers means most fundamentally a separation between...
Answer:
Legislative, executive, and judicial functions

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17. "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition," Who said this?
Answer:
James Madison