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POLS 1101 Exam 1 2/19/2023 1. Direct democracy is best defined as: a state of continual revolution the system that allows people to vote by telephone or over the Internet a system that allows citizens to vote directly for laws and policies the competition between interest groups for governmental power a system that allows citizens to elect representatives who play a significant role in governmental decision making 2. The Declaration of Independence was the United States’ first governing constitution. True False 3. Miranda v. Arizona was important because it produced rules that must be used: to determine if separation between church and state has been violated to judge whether printed materials are pornographic or not to determine if some element of the Bill of Rights should be applied to the states to determine whether a warrant should be issued for a police search by the police before questioning an arrested criminal suspect 4. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed Congress after what traumatic national event? The assassination of President John F. Kennedy The assissination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy, Candidate for President The end of the Vietnam War 5. The Women's Rights Movement began with the Seneca Falls Convention in New York State in 1848. with the drive towards an Equal Rights Amendment in 1972. with the 19th Amendment giving U.S. women the vote in 1920. with the Black Lives Matter Movement in 2013. 6. Many of the most critical dilemmas of American politics involve conflicts over the way commonly held values are put into practice. True False

POLS 1101 Exam 1 2/19/2023 7. The Term Reverse-Discrimination was coined by the Bakke Case in 1978, when a white military veteran was turned down from the University of California Medical School for admission, claiming the quotas for minority student adminissions were discriminatory. When a Native-American college graduate was turned down from the University of Arizona Medical School in 1965. When a black student was turned down from admission to the university of Georgia in 1963 because he of his race. When a white student was admitted to the University of California Law School under a quota for white students only. 8. Why did the Equal Rights Amendment of 1972 fail to pass? It won approval in the House but not in the Senate. The Supreme Court had declared the amendment unconstitutionally vague before it could be submitted to the states. It was vetoed by President Gerald Ford. It was not ratified by the necessary thirty-eight states. It won approval in the Senate but not in the House. 9. How was the power in Congress divided under the Articles of Confederation? Each state had an equal vote. Each state’s votes were proportionate to its population. The states were not formally represented in Congress. Each state’s power depended on its geographic size. Each state’s power depended on its economic wealth. 10. How many proposed amendments to the Constitution have been formally offered to Congress? fewer than fifty fewer than one hundred between one hundred and 200 between 1,000 and 1,500 over 11,000 11. The Federalists believed that the powers of government could be limited by: providing Congress with larger grant powers decreasing the powers of the executive branch, especially those of the vice president confining the powers of the federal government to certain narrowly defined areas and by adding a bill of rights to the Constitution creating an internal system of checks and controls within government preventing government from collecting revenue through taxation 12. McCulloch v. Maryland gave Congress potentially expansive powers for regulating commercial activity. True

POLS 1101 Exam 1 2/19/2023 False 13. During the ratification debates, who were the Antifederalists? those who opposed the new Constitution because they wanted a weaker central government those who opposed the Constitution because it did not create a strong enough central government those who opposed the Constitution because it did not provide women with the right to vote those who supported the Constitution those who believed that the United States should enter into a confederation with Britain and Canada 14. How many amendments are there to the U.S. Constitution? ten twenty twenty-seven thirty thirty-three

POLS 1101 Exam 1 2/19/2023 15. The Antifederalists feared an overly strong central government under the new Constitution. True False 16. Over the past several decades, the public’s belief that elected officials care what people like them think has declined. True False 17. Before the eighteenth century: governments were primarily democratic totalitarian rule was common governments rarely sought the support of their people most governments were based on respect for the rule of law autocracies were extremely rare 18. Compared with the Articles of Confederation, federalism under the Constitution has led to: greater centralization of power increased state autonomy the establishment of unitary government more local autonomy, at the expense of the states a weaker national military 19. A government that is not constrained by legal limits and also seeks to eliminate those organized social groups that might challenge or limit their authority is known as: oligarchic authoritarian totalitarian democratic republican 20. According to the text, what is the goal of politics? to have a say in a government’s leadership, organization, and policies to get as much power as possible in order to serve one’s own interests to construct a perfect constitutional order to construct a political system that is conducive to economic growth to construct a political system that provides as many people as possible with the chance to participate 21. In general, Americans’ trust in their government has ______ since the 1960’s. remained stable risen slightly

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