PSC 101 - Exam 1 Study Guide questions n
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Nature is brutish, hard, ugly - violent. And at their core, people are a little more
1. Why is govern-
than anarchists. In such condition there is no place for industry. Continual fear of
ment useful?
danger and of violent death and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and
short.
1. Promote the welfare of citizens living in society
2. What can the
2. Government van restore order missing from state of nature
government pro-
vide?
Common traditions, institutions, interests
3. How can govern-
ment help foster
society?
4. General Welfare conditions that all citizens experience. civil goods (rights, liberties) and material
conditions
5. Trail of Tears series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Native Americans, in-
cluding people from the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chicksaw, and
Choctaw Nations per the Indian Removal Act. Brutal conditions, mixed with broken
promises about resources
6. Democratic Val-
10. Electoral College
ues
7. Direct Democra-
cy
8. Representative
Democracy
9. Popular Sover-
eignty
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order should be motivated
Form of decision-making in which
polices (outputs) are decided by
the people, rather than by
representatives
indirect democracy, in which the
people are ruled through elected
representatives
people are the ultimate source of
government authority and of the
policies that government
leaders make
19. Sovereignty
,PSC 101 - Exam 1 Study Guide questions n
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it decouples the popular vote from election outcomes by making an artificial
people (states) the unit of aggregation
11. Popular Sover- Competitive elections, free and fair elections, robust participation, high-quality
eignty can be un- information, majority rules, government policies reflect the wishes of the people,
derstood in light parties allow normal politics to unfold when they lose
of several quali-
ties:
12. Equality principle that each person carries equal weight in the conduct of public business
13. Equality of Condi- everybody has equal everything
tion
14. Equality of Op- everybody has equal opportunity to have everything
portunity
15. Political Liberty principle that citizens in a democracy are protected from government interference
in the exercise of a range of basic freedoms such as freedoms of speech, associ-
ation and conscience
16. The Social Con- come more often from?
struct
17. Threat of Ma-
jority (minority)
Tyranny
18. Threats to rights
answers graded A+
Nature is brutish, hard, ugly - violent. And at their core, people are a little more
1. Why is govern-
than anarchists. In such condition there is no place for industry. Continual fear of
ment useful?
danger and of violent death and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and
short.
1. Promote the welfare of citizens living in society
2. What can the
2. Government van restore order missing from state of nature
government pro-
vide?
Common traditions, institutions, interests
3. How can govern-
ment help foster
society?
4. General Welfare conditions that all citizens experience. civil goods (rights, liberties) and material
conditions
5. Trail of Tears series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Native Americans, in-
cluding people from the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chicksaw, and
Choctaw Nations per the Indian Removal Act. Brutal conditions, mixed with broken
promises about resources
6. Democratic Val-
10. Electoral College
ues
7. Direct Democra-
cy
8. Representative
Democracy
9. Popular Sover-
eignty
, PSC 101 - Exam 1 Study Guide
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_dqpgct
order should be motivated
Form of decision-making in which
polices (outputs) are decided by
the people, rather than by
representatives
indirect democracy, in which the
people are ruled through elected
representatives
people are the ultimate source of
government authority and of the
policies that government
leaders make
19. Sovereignty
,PSC 101 - Exam 1 Study Guide questions n
answers graded A+
it decouples the popular vote from election outcomes by making an artificial
people (states) the unit of aggregation
11. Popular Sover- Competitive elections, free and fair elections, robust participation, high-quality
eignty can be un- information, majority rules, government policies reflect the wishes of the people,
derstood in light parties allow normal politics to unfold when they lose
of several quali-
ties:
12. Equality principle that each person carries equal weight in the conduct of public business
13. Equality of Condi- everybody has equal everything
tion
14. Equality of Op- everybody has equal opportunity to have everything
portunity
15. Political Liberty principle that citizens in a democracy are protected from government interference
in the exercise of a range of basic freedoms such as freedoms of speech, associ-
ation and conscience
16. The Social Con- come more often from?
struct
17. Threat of Ma-
jority (minority)
Tyranny
18. Threats to rights
