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Name Clas Dat : s: e: Chapter 04: Civil Liberties Civil Liberties True / False 1. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson wrote the governor of Pennsylvania requesting that the governor prosecute newspaper publishers for the “licentiousness” of their papers. ANSWER: REFERENCES: LEARNING OBJ...

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,Name Clas Dat
: s: e:

Chapter 01: The Study of American Government
The Study of American Government
True / False

1. Under the Articles of Confederation, the state governments paid very little of the monies requisitioned by the federal
government.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 2
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.1 - LO1

2. The interest on the national debt is well over $300 billion a year.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 2
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.1 - LO1

3. Senator Jones felt strongly that closing American military bases overseas would weaken the military, while Senator
Smith felt it was absolutely necessary to close those bases in order to reduce spending. According to the text, closing these
military bases would be considered an issue.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 3
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.1 - LO1

4. Young Americans are closer to being “political dropouts” than they are to being “engaged citizens.”
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 3
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.1 - LO1

5. Most young Americans regularly read newspapers.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 3
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.1 - LO1

6. Increasingly, matters once thought to be private are becoming objects of governmental action.
a. True
b. False
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,Name Clas Dat
: s: e:

Chapter 01: The Study of American Government
The Study of American Government

ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 4
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.1 - LO1

7. Political power is the right to act in a certain way that is conferred by a law or constitution.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 4
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.1 - LO1

8. One can have political power even if one does not possess formal authority.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 4
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.1 - LO1

9. None of the Founders was particularly concerned about the government being too democratic.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 4
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.2 - LO2

10. In the Greek city-state, only property holders were allowed to be citizens.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 4
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.2 - LO2

11. A modern example of the Aristotelian ideal of the rule of the many is a New England town meeting.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 4
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.2 - LO2

12. Representative democracy is sometimes referred to as the “elitist theory of democracy.”
a. True
b. False
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, Name Clas Dat
: s: e:

Chapter 01: The Study of American Government
The Study of American Government

ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 5
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.2 - LO2

13. One argument against representative democracy is that it is not practical to expect people to make reasonable choices
among competing leadership groups.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 5
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.2 - LO2

14. The Constitution uses the term "republican form of government," which we would call a representative democracy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 5
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.2 - LO2

15. Marx argued that governments were basically dominated by business owners.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 7
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.3 - LO3

16. The power elite view argues that American democracy is controlled by elected officeholders.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 7
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.3 - LO3

17. Max Weber argued that the modern state is controlled by appointed bureaucrats.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 7
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.1.3 - LO3

18. Bureaucrats manage the written records and legislative details of the government, but they do not actually make
policy.

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