WGU C963 EXAM 2024-2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100 % PASS
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A case is heard for the first time. - answer>>Original Jurisdiction
The right to life, liberty, and property; believed to be given by God; no government may take them
away. - answer>>Natural Rights
A court hears a case on appeal from a lower court and may change the lower court's decision. -
answer>>Appellate Jurisdiction
Stare decisis is a reliance on previous decisions and established precedent. - answer>>Stare Decisis
A system of government that divides power and authority between the national government and the
state government. - answer>>Federalism
Also known as enumerated powers; Powers specifically defined and granted to the national government
withing the Constitution. - answer>>Expressed Powers
Powers not expressly defined in the Constitution, but assumed through interpretation. -
answer>>Implied Powers
Also known as the necessary and proper clause, this clause provides implied powers to Congress. -
answer>>Elastic Clause
Any powers not prohibited by the Constitution or delegated to the national government; powers
reserved to the states and denied to the federal government. - answer>>Reserved Powers
Powers shared by both the national and state governments. - answer>>Concurrent Powers
, Advertisements that bring awareness to a particular issue but do not expressly advocate for or against a
candidate. - answer>>Issue Advocacy Ads
An election where candidates for elected office are formally chosen, or where the allocation of
presidential electoral votes is decided. - answer>>General Election
A candidate for office who presently holds that office and is running for re-election. -
answer>>Incumbents
An election where political parties nominate their candidate for an elective office, or determine the
allocation of delegates to presidential candidates for a party's national convention. - answer>>Primary
Election
The votes which, according to the Constitution, actually elect a president. - answer>>Electoral Votes
Meetings among party members, starting at a local level, where delegates are selected to support a
candidate for a party's presidential nomination. - answer>>Caucus
Meetings among party members, starting at a local level, where delegates are selected to support a
candidate for a party's presidential nomination. - answer>>Caucuses
A national party convention where no candidate for the party's presidential nomination has a majority
of the convention's delegates. - answer>>Brokered Convention
Electoral votes of a state are allocated among presidential candidates according to the popular vote
outcome in each congressional district (1 electoral vote), and the overall state popular vote outcome (2
electoral votes). - answer>>District Method
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