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American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure 1st Edition by Cal Jillson. ISBN-13 978-3. (Complete Download). TEST BANK. TABLE OF CONTENT Chapter 1 – The Revolution and the Constitution Chapter 2 – Federalism and the American Constitutional Order Chapter 3 – Civil Liberties: Democracy and the Expansion of Lib erty’s Realm Chapter 4 – Civil Rights: Where Liberty and Equality Collide Chapter 5 – Shaping Americans: Political Socialization, Public Opinion, and the Media Chapter 6 – Factions Today: Interest Groups and Political Parties Chapter 7 – Democracy’s Moment: Voting, Campaigns, and Elections Chapter 8 – Congress: Partisanship, Polarization, and Gridlock Chapter 9 – The Executive Branch: The President, the Bureaucracy, and Executive Power Chapter 10 – The Federal Courts: Originalism versus Living Constitutionalism

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,What drove the idea behind the d The orthodox did Banishment was an The vastness of the All of the above
notion that the Americans had not feel the need accepted form of land allowed for
“space” for dissent? to destroy the punishment pockets of
unorthodox acceptability
interspersed between
places of orthodoxy
To what area of social life did Adam c Law Government and The economy Culture
Smith most extensively apply the politics
principles of classical liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker was d Hobbes Machiavelli Montesquieu Bacon
the earliest to argue most
influentially that science and
discovery worked for the eternal
benefit of society?
When did the concept of c At the At the Magna Carta At the American At the English Revolution
individualism find its brightest Constitutional and in the form of Revolution and in the and in the form of
moment and what form did it take? Convention and in the Barony form of the idea that religious tolerance
the form of freedom has its own
separation of order and structure
powers
What did the ancients mean by b They thought it Rule by the people Rule by the people in They thought it was
“democracy?” was equivalent to in the interest of the their own self-interest equivalent to “free
“mob rule” entire community government”

Name two philosophers associated b Locke and Smith Locke and Hobbes Polybius and Rorty and Rawls
with social contract theory Machiavelli

What two concepts does classical b Large government Limited government Large government and Limited government and
liberalism favor? and aggregate and individual rights individual rights aggregate rights
rights




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, What was the dominant American b Social Democracy Classical Liberalism Classical Corporatist Capitalism
political and social ideology in the Republicanism
nineteenth and twentieth
centuries?
Which of the following are d Space for dissent Social fluidity and Equality and tolerance All of the above
characteristics of American colonial and economic heterogeneity
settlement that influenced opportunity
American political development?
What was the official religion of the a There was no single Puritanism Anglican Catholicism
British colonies in North America? official religion
throughout all of
the British colonies
Who is the legitimate source of d The powerful The rich The divine The people
political authority, according to the
idea of individualism?

What is social contract theory? a An argument that An argument that An argument that the An argument that power
the legitimate the legitimate origin non-legitimate origin rests exclusively with
origin of of government rests of government is in those best suited to
government is in with the “divine the agreement of a exercise it
the agreement of a right of kings” free people
free people
An uprising that convinced b Boston Massacre Shay's Rebellion Boston Tea Party The Second
Americans to support a stronger Constitutional
national government was ^___^. Convention
The written constitution first c the writings of John Scotland the United States France
developed in ^___^. Locke
The assignment of legislative, d Federalism Checks and Balances Bicameralism Separation of Powers
executive and judicial powers to
different institutions is an example
of ^___^.



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