UIOWA - POLI 1100 FINAL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

UIOWA - POLI 1100 FINAL UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. Politics
Answer:
Who gets what, when, and how

Question:
2. Why are Institutions Important?
Answer:
not self-enforcing, it's what you can and cannot do

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3. 3 keys to understand politics
Answer:
1. political process matter
2. politics is conflictual
3. politics is everywhere

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4. Government
Answer:
institutions that create and implement policies and laws that guide the conduct of a nation, state, or
municipal and its citizens

Question:
5. What does government do?
Answer:
- protect sovereign territory and citizens through national defense
- preserve order and stability
- establish and maintain a legal system
- provide services to residents
- raise and spend money
- socialize new generations into political culture and values

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6. Monarchy
Answer:
single ruler often a king or a queen with absolute authority over a territory

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7. Oligarchy
Answer:
A government ruled by a few powerful people

,Question:
8. Democracy
Answer:
supreme power of governance in the hands of the citizens

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9. Origins of American Democracy
Answer:
- ancient Greeks developed concept of democracy
- monarchies, assertion without regard to the people
- enlightenment

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10. Popular Sovereignty
Answer:
- government created by people and depends on the people for the authority to rule
- Locke and Rousseau

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11. Separation of Powers
Answer:
- different functions of government should be assigned to different institutions to prevent abuse of
government power
- Montesquieu

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12. Social Contract Theory
Answer:
- free will
- God given right of self-determination

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13. Traits of American Democracy
Answer:
- popular sovereignty
- separation of powers
- political liberty

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14. Declaration of Independence
Answer:
- listed grievances, taxation without representation
- Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston

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15. Articles of Confederation

, Answer:
- first national constitution
- unicameral since each state had one vote, amendments needed unanimous votes
- limited government authority

Question:
16. What are the reasons for the constitutional convention?
Answer:
- revise the AOC
- Shay's rebellion led to the Philadelphia Convention
- no power to collect taxes, enforce national laws, enforce treaties, regulate commerce, institute national
currency, raise an army, and form a national court system

Question:
17. Virginia Plan
Answer:
- powerful central government
- able to tax, regulate commerce, overturn state laws, maintain army, and settle interstate disputes
- proposed 3 branches, with bicameral representation in both chambers
- proportional representation
- legislative is the dominant branch

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18. New Jersey Plan
Answer:
- worried about central control
- multiple executives
- congress the ability to tax and pass laws by majority

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19. Connecticut Compromise
Answer:
bicameral legislature
- house is proportional representation
- senate is equal representation

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20. Concurrent Powers
Answer:
Powers held jointly by the national and state governments.

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21. Enumerated Powers
Answer:
Powers given to the national government alone