POSC 100
Under the Articles of Confederation, who clearly had the most amount of power and
authority?
a. State governments
b. The President (who was beginning to act like an American king)
c. The National Congress
d. The voters - ✔️✔️a. State governments
Which of the following statements is TRUE with respect to democracy?
a. Democracy was widely practiced by western European nations throughout the
eighteenth century.
b. Democracy is founded on the belief that no government is necessary because people
are basically good-hearted and will always want to work together to meet their mutual
needs.
c. Democracy and capitalism cannot exist together.
d. European countries before the eighteenth century were not democratic. - ✔️✔️d.
European countries before the eighteenth century were not democratic.
What is a common argument against democracy? - ✔️✔️Both (b) Majority rule can
threaten minorities. and (c) People can be irrational and incompetent and may make
bad political decisions.
Which of the following are needed for a political system to have popular sovereignty? -
✔️✔️I and II only (Government policies should reflect the wishes of the people. &
Government leaders are selected by free and fair elections.)
1. Initiatives in California (such as Prop 13 and Prop 8) are examples of
a. representative democracy.
b. illegal maneuvers to bypass the state Assembly.
c. direct democracy.
d. an illegal use of power by the Governor to bypass the state Assembly. - ✔️✔️c.
direct democracy.
According to the video clips we saw in class, what will be the main effect of recently-
passed Voter ID Laws?
a. They will significantly reduce widespread electoral fraud.
b. They will make it a lot easier for every citizen to register to vote.
c. They will make it more difficult for mostly Democratic voters to vote.
d. They will make it more difficult for mostly Republican voters to vote. - ✔️✔️c. They
will make it more difficult for mostly Democratic voters to vote.
, What can we say about the "democracy standard" from the textbook and course
lectures?
a. Achieving popular sovereignty, political liberty and political equality is very easy to do
because everyone likes all three of them.
b. Political equality has been the part of the democracy standard that the United States
has always paid the most attention to.
c. The best way to protect individual liberties is ALWAYS to allow people to vote on
them.
d. Although we like popular sovereignty, political liberty and political equality, it is a
struggle to have all of them at the same time because there are important contradictions
that can exist among them. - ✔️✔️d. Although we like popular sovereignty, political
liberty and political equality, it is a struggle to have all of them at the same time because
there are important contradictions that can exist among them.
A form of government in which elected officials, who make policy in the name of the
people, are chosen by the people in open, free elections is called - ✔️✔️a republic or
representative democracy
In the video lectures, which of the following words did we say was most closely
associated with a well-functioning democracy?
a. Compromise
b. Power
c. Tyranny of the majority
d. Consistency - ✔️✔️a. Compromise
1. If a majority of elected officials voted to impose mandatory religious observations
(e.g., school-sponsored prayer in public schools) on all citizens, regardless of their
religious beliefs, and this policy was supported by a majority of the public, this would
violate the principles of
a. procedural democracy.
b. substantive democracy.
c. indirect democracy.
d. all forms of democracy. - ✔️✔️b. substantive democracy.
Shays' Rebellion
a. demonstrated that slavery was going to be an important issue in our system of
government.
b. was even bloodier than the American Revolution in terms of the number of Americans
killed in battle.
c. demonstrated that the national government under the Articles of Confederation had
too much power (especially at the expense of powers for the state governments).
d. None of the above are lessons from Shays' Rebellion. - ✔️✔️d. None of the above
are lessons from Shays' Rebellion
The Schoolhouse Rocks video, "The Shot Heard 'Round the World",
Under the Articles of Confederation, who clearly had the most amount of power and
authority?
a. State governments
b. The President (who was beginning to act like an American king)
c. The National Congress
d. The voters - ✔️✔️a. State governments
Which of the following statements is TRUE with respect to democracy?
a. Democracy was widely practiced by western European nations throughout the
eighteenth century.
b. Democracy is founded on the belief that no government is necessary because people
are basically good-hearted and will always want to work together to meet their mutual
needs.
c. Democracy and capitalism cannot exist together.
d. European countries before the eighteenth century were not democratic. - ✔️✔️d.
European countries before the eighteenth century were not democratic.
What is a common argument against democracy? - ✔️✔️Both (b) Majority rule can
threaten minorities. and (c) People can be irrational and incompetent and may make
bad political decisions.
Which of the following are needed for a political system to have popular sovereignty? -
✔️✔️I and II only (Government policies should reflect the wishes of the people. &
Government leaders are selected by free and fair elections.)
1. Initiatives in California (such as Prop 13 and Prop 8) are examples of
a. representative democracy.
b. illegal maneuvers to bypass the state Assembly.
c. direct democracy.
d. an illegal use of power by the Governor to bypass the state Assembly. - ✔️✔️c.
direct democracy.
According to the video clips we saw in class, what will be the main effect of recently-
passed Voter ID Laws?
a. They will significantly reduce widespread electoral fraud.
b. They will make it a lot easier for every citizen to register to vote.
c. They will make it more difficult for mostly Democratic voters to vote.
d. They will make it more difficult for mostly Republican voters to vote. - ✔️✔️c. They
will make it more difficult for mostly Democratic voters to vote.
, What can we say about the "democracy standard" from the textbook and course
lectures?
a. Achieving popular sovereignty, political liberty and political equality is very easy to do
because everyone likes all three of them.
b. Political equality has been the part of the democracy standard that the United States
has always paid the most attention to.
c. The best way to protect individual liberties is ALWAYS to allow people to vote on
them.
d. Although we like popular sovereignty, political liberty and political equality, it is a
struggle to have all of them at the same time because there are important contradictions
that can exist among them. - ✔️✔️d. Although we like popular sovereignty, political
liberty and political equality, it is a struggle to have all of them at the same time because
there are important contradictions that can exist among them.
A form of government in which elected officials, who make policy in the name of the
people, are chosen by the people in open, free elections is called - ✔️✔️a republic or
representative democracy
In the video lectures, which of the following words did we say was most closely
associated with a well-functioning democracy?
a. Compromise
b. Power
c. Tyranny of the majority
d. Consistency - ✔️✔️a. Compromise
1. If a majority of elected officials voted to impose mandatory religious observations
(e.g., school-sponsored prayer in public schools) on all citizens, regardless of their
religious beliefs, and this policy was supported by a majority of the public, this would
violate the principles of
a. procedural democracy.
b. substantive democracy.
c. indirect democracy.
d. all forms of democracy. - ✔️✔️b. substantive democracy.
Shays' Rebellion
a. demonstrated that slavery was going to be an important issue in our system of
government.
b. was even bloodier than the American Revolution in terms of the number of Americans
killed in battle.
c. demonstrated that the national government under the Articles of Confederation had
too much power (especially at the expense of powers for the state governments).
d. None of the above are lessons from Shays' Rebellion. - ✔️✔️d. None of the above
are lessons from Shays' Rebellion
The Schoolhouse Rocks video, "The Shot Heard 'Round the World",
