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TEST BANK - American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change 12th Edition by Cal Jillson, All Chapters 1 - 16, Complete Latest Version

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TEST BANK - American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change 12th Edition by Cal Jillson, All Chapters 1 - 16, Complete Latest Version

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TEST BANK
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American Government Political Development and Institutional Change By Cal Jillson
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,Chapter 1 Test Bank in Word for 12e y y y y y y y


Single-Select Multiple Choice y y




Question Answer A B C D

A custom, practice, or
y y y b policy institution legal procedure
y rule
organization, often embedded
y y y


in rules and law, is called a
y y y y y y y


^ .^
Which of these terms refers to y y y y y d Monarchy Polis Democracy Oligarchy
the rule of an elite few for their
y y y y y y y y


own interests? y



According to Plato, who should y y y y a A philosopher-
y A political science-
y y The few wisest
y y None of these
y y


rule a properly constituted
y y y king
y king
y citizens
y


polis?
y


According to Aristotle’s typology y y y d Oligarchy is a y y Democracy is a y y Tyranny is any y y All of these
y y


of governments, which of these
y y y y y ygovernment government
y government that is
y y y


statements accurately defines a
y y y y yorganized around y organized around
y y oppressive to the
y y y


type of government?
y y y ya few men who
y y y many men who
y y y people.
y


yare primarily
y are primarily
y y


ymotivated by y motivated by the
y y y


ytheir narrow y broad public
y y


yprivate and class y y interest.
y


interests.
Which one of the following pairsy y y y y c Paris and London
y y Berlin and Madrid
y y Athens and Rome
y y Oslo and Copenhagen
y y


of cities formed the centers of
y y y y y




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,the two greatest European
y y y


societies of the ancient world?
y y y y y




Before it was an empire, what
y y y y y c It was always an
y y y It was a
y y It was a republic.
y y y It was a polity.
y y y


was ancient Rome?
y y y yempire. ydemocracy.
Which theorists made the first
y y y y a Polybius and y Plato and Aristotle y y St. Augustine and St.
y y y Thomas Hobbes and y y


and most influential efforts to
y y y y y yCicero Thomas Aquinas
y y John Locke
y y


explain how mixed governments
y y y y


can work in practice?
y y y


According to the Pro & Con y y y y y b The people met
y y A deep respect for Slaves and resident
y y y y y All citizens were given
y y y


section, which of the following
y y y y y in the Assembly
y y y the individual
y y aliens (three-fifths y y one vote in the
y y y y


was not a characteristic of
y y y y y to discuss and
y y y rights and liberties of the population)
y y y y y y Assembly
y


“Athenian democracy?” y decide major y of all city residents were denied
y y y y y


issues
y citizenship y


What is the temporal world?
y y y y c The world of the
y y y The world of the
y The world of y y y y The otherworldly
y


sacred
y politically peoples and nations y y


powerful
y and human history y y y


Who wrote that, without an all-
y y y y y c Niccolò John Calvin y Thomas Hobbes y John Locke y


powerful monarch, human
y y y Machiavelli
y


beings will fall into a war of all
y y y y y y y y


against all in which life is
y y y y y y


“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, y y y


and short”? y


Who was the founder of the
y y y y y c Martin Luther y Thomas Hobbes y Martin Luther y John Winthrop y


Protestant Reformation?
y y King, Jr.
y y



In addition to social contract
y y y y c Nothing else was y y There is nothing y y Separation of y Unlimited, immoderate y


ytheory, what are two other y y y y taken.
y besides social
y y powers and free
y y y constitutional regimes
y y


yconcepts taken from classical y y y contract theory in
y y y markets
y


yliberalism that influenced the y y y classical
y


Founding generation? y liberalism.
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, Who were the Pilgrims?
y y y b Wealthy English y Middling English y Wealthy English y Middling English y


Puritans who
y y Puritans who
y y Anglicans who
y y Anglicans who settled
y y y


settled in the
y y y settled in New
y y y settled in the South
y y y y in the Mid-Atlantic in
y y y y


South in order to
y y y y England in order
y y y in order to develop
y y y y order to develop it
y y y y


avoid religious
y y to avoid religious
y y y it economically
y y economically and in
y y y


persecution in
y y persecution in
y y some cases to avoid
y y y y


their home
y y their home
y y religious persecution in
y y y


country country their home country
y y


In the population of the
y y y y a The English y The Irish y The Germans y The Dutch y


yAmerican colonies in 1765, y y y


ywhich ethnic group was the y y y y


ylargest?
What drove the idea behind the
y y y y y d The orthodox didy y Banishment was y The vastness of the
y y y All of these
y y


ynotion that the Americans had y y y y not feel the need
y y y y an accepted form
y y y yland allowed for y y


y“space” for dissent? y y to destroy the
y y y of punishment.
y y ypockets of y


unorthodox.
y yacceptability
yinterspersed
ybetween places of y y


orthodoxy.
What was political participation
y y y a It was very
y y It was oligarchic
y y It was oligarchic and
y y y It was aristocratic and
y y y


like in the early colonies?
y y y y y ydemocratic ybut still modestly
y y yhence not very y y yhence not very y y


in nature.
y y ydemocratic in y ydemocratic at all in y y y ydemocratic at all in y y y


nature. nature. nature.
To what area of social life did
y y y y y y c Law Government and y The economy y Culture
yAdam Smith most extensivelyy y y ypolitics
yapply the principles of classical
y y y y


liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker y y d Thomas Hobbes y Niccolò Baron de y Francis Bacon y


yargued the earliest and most y y y y Machiavelli
y Montesquieu
y


yinfluentially that science and y y y


discovery worked for the eternal y y y y




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