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PLS 101 Kaatz Exam 1 BEST ONESix things that a constitution needs to accomplish - correct answer ✔✔1. Create a form of government
2. Distribute political power
3. establish authority
4. create limits on the government
5. conflict management
6. define citizenship
Where is the bill of rights located? - correct answer ✔✔MO: After the preamble
US: Last
What is referendum? - correct answer ✔✔when elected officials place stuff on ballot
What is initiative? - correct answer ✔✔citizens put stuff on ballot
What is recall? - correct answer ✔✔a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from
office through direct vote before his term has ended.
What are the Bills of Attainder? - correct answer ✔✔an act of legislature declaring a person/group guilty
of some crime and punishing them without a trial
What is Habeas Corpus? - correct answer ✔✔Cannot retain anyone without charging them with a crime
What are ex post facto laws? - correct answer ✔✔You cannot be charged for a crime that you committed
before the act was declared illegal
How often do the voters decide whether a convention should be called? - correct answer ✔✔every 20
years
, What is the year of the current Missouri Constitution? - correct answer ✔✔1945
What year was the US constitution made? - correct answer ✔✔1787
What is the Hancock Amendment - correct answer ✔✔States that missouri cannot spend more money
than it takes in. Also states that MO cannot tax, license, or increase fees without voter approval
Order - correct answer ✔✔Established ways of social behavior. Maintaing order is the oldest purpose of
the government.
-Viewed in narrow sense of preserving life and protecting property. Viewed in broader sense of
maintaing social order
Freedom of - correct answer ✔✔An absence of constraints on behavior, as in freedom of speech or
freedom or religion
Freedom from - correct answer ✔✔immunity, as in freedom from want
Political Equality - correct answer ✔✔equality in political decision making: one vote per person, with all
votes counted equally
Social Equality - correct answer ✔✔equality in wealth, education, and status
Equality of Opportunity - correct answer ✔✔the idea that each person is guaranteed the same chance to
succeed in life
Rights - correct answer ✔✔the benefits of government to which every citizen is entitled
Equality of outcome - correct answer ✔✔the concept that society must ensure that people are equal
Original dilemma of democracy - correct answer ✔✔freedom vs. order
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