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WGU C963 Pretest ( Latest 2024 / 2025 ) Actual Questions and Answers 100% Correct 1. What was a Federalist argument in support of the ratification of the Constitution? A strong national government is better for national defense and economicgrowth. A strong national government is better for the...

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1. What was a Federalist argument in support of the ratification of the Constitution?
A strong national government is better for national defense and economicgrowth.

A strong national government is better for the representation of smalllandowners of modest
wealth.

Strong state governments are better for funding internal improvements likeroads.

Strong state governments are better for facilitating business transactions
Answer: Astrong national government is better for national defense and economic growth.

2. Which concept was James Madison referencing when he stated, "Ambitionmust be made to
counteract ambition" in Federalist, no. 51?

Free enterprise and competition

Life and the pursuit of happiness

Separation of powers and checks and balances

Equality and individual rights
Answer: Separation of powers and checks and balances

3. What is a judicial check on the executive branch?

The Supreme Court can veto an executive order

The Supreme Court can override an executive pardon.

The Supreme Court can declare actions by the executive branch unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court can block a declaration of war.
Answer: The Supreme Court candeclare actions by the executive branch unconstitutional.

4. What is the goal of new federalism?

Centralize policy to strengthen administrative oversight and control overallpublic spending


Decentralize policy to reduce redundancy and increase overall public spending

, Decentralize policy to enhance administrative efficiency and reduce overallpublic spending

Centralize policy to enforce administrative regulations and increase overall public spending
Answer: Decentralize policy to enhance administrative efficiency and re-duce overall public
spending

5. What was a major difference between the Articles of Confederation and theConstitution?

The Articles of Confederation did not provide for a national judiciary.

The Articles of Confederation required states to provide troops for nationaldefense.

The Articles of Confederation did not allow states to establish banks.

The Articles of Confederation required states to pay for land claims west of the Appalachian
Mountains.
Answer: The Articles of Confederation did not provide for anational judiciary

6. Why did the framers design the government under the Articles of Confederation with a
Congress?

They wanted a government funded by the people.

They wanted a government that protected state sovereignty.

They wanted the government to have supreme authority instead of a monarch.

They wanted the government to resemble the British Parliament.
Answer: They wanteda government that protected state sovereignty.

7. What did the Great Compromise between the Virginia Plan and the NewJersey Plan that
was finalized in the Constitution establish?

Authority to tax and regulate trade
A two-chamber Congress

National armed forces

A national currency
Answer: A two-chamber Congress

8. What were the results of the three-fifths compromise?

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