PLS FINAL EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

PLS FINAL EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. The tradeoff between freedom and order
Answer:
You cannot have one without sacrificing the other and The line of more freedom or more order move
throughout your life

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2. The tradeoff between equality and freedom
Answer:
You cannot have one without sacrificing the other and Lines put on the scales are politics

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3. Direct democracy
Answer:
Decisions made by the people directly

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4. Indirect democracy
Answer:
Decisions are made by elected representatives on our behalf

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5. Initiatives
Answer:
Voters propose a law to be publicly voted on

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6. What are the three critical principles of the democratic procedure?
Answer:
universal suffrage, majority rule, and equality

Question:
7. Universal suffrage
Answer:
Everyone can participate

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8. Majority rule
Answer:
One more "Yay" than you have "nay"

,Question:
9. Equality
Answer:
everyone counts the same

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10. Majoritarian
Answer:
The government ought to do what the majority of the population wants.

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11. Pluralist
Answer:
politics and decision making are located mostly in the framework of government, but that many
non-governmental groups use their resources to exert influence.

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12. Majoritarian assumptions
Answer:
we are proactive participants in our democracy, we are well informed about the issues in our country, we
have free and easy access to vote when the opportunity arises.

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13. Pluralist assumptions
Answer:
Proactive participants? Free and easy access? Not necessarily. / informed population? Not particularly. /
people tend to group up with people similar to themselves and will organize politically

Question:
14. Which model better describes today's government and politics
Answer:
Pluralist

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15. Elite theory
Answer:
Society is ruled by a smaller number of people who exercise their power to further their own self-interests.

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16. What was the Declaration of Independence?
Answer:
A document stating their own freedoms from Britain and all their connections are cut off.

Question:
17. Who wrote the declaration?

, Answer:
Thomas Jefferson

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18. Define social contract theory
Answer:
Citizens shall agree to be governed by a collective government that operates on behalf of the governed.

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19. Define republic
Answer:
state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an
elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

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20. What was AOC?
Answer:
The agreement among the 13 colonies was the first law-abiding document. It was the first document to
govern all American laws.

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21. What did AOC establish our country as?
Answer:
A confederation

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22. What is a confederation?
Answer:
Where states retain the ultimate authority over themselves, and they may agree to work with one another
every once in a while.

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23. Reasons why the Articles failed.
Answer:
Weak federal gov, central gov couldn't raise any taxes or military.

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24. What was the Constitutional Convention supposed to do? What did it end up doing?
Answer:
They wanted to fix the articles of confederation but instead, they started all over and wrote an entirely new
document called the constitution.

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25. Virginia plan
Answer:
Three branches of government, big state plan, wanted bicameral legislature with the lower seats allotted by
population and the upper chamber by members of the lower chamber.