PLS-101 Final Exam Study Questions and Answers with Complete Solutions Graded A
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PLS-101
Institution
PLS-101
It takes both a two thirds vote by the House and Senate, and a three fourths vote by the state legislature to Amend the Constitution. -Answer- True
The Federalist papers argued against ratification of the Constitution. -Answer- False
The Great Compromise had nothing to do with addressing repr...
PLS-101 Final Exam Study Questions and
Answers with Complete Solutions Graded A
2024-2025
It takes both a two thirds vote by the House and Senate, and a three fourths vote by the
state legislature to Amend the Constitution. -Answer- ✔True
The Federalist papers argued against ratification of the Constitution. -Answer- ✔False
The Great Compromise had nothing to do with addressing representation differences
between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan. -Answer- ✔False
The basic government structure in America has followed the colonial English structure. -
Answer- ✔True
Popular Sovereignty simply means the power of the government rests with the people. -
Answer- ✔True
The Articles of Confederation allowed for a very strong central government, which is
why we needed the new Constitution to limit central authority. -Answer- ✔False
British taxation increases prior to the revolutionary war were in large part to pay back
debt incurred while defending the English colonies in the French and Indian War. -
Answer- ✔True
The Anti-Federalists wanted immediate ratification of the new Constitution. -Answer-
✔False
The Three Fifths compromise actually reduced the political influence of the southern
states. -Answer- ✔True
Even in today's America, states have sovereignty within their reserved powers. -
Answer- ✔True
Reserved Powers are those powers to which the states gave the federal government. -
Answer- ✔False
The necessary and proper clause affords congress to create a variety of laws, but are
supposed to support only the expressed powers in Article 1, section 8 of the
Constitution. -Answer- ✔True
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Enumerated, reserved, and concurrent powers have nothing to do with the balance of
power in our federal system. -Answer- ✔False
The full faith and credit clause is in the Bill of Rights. -Answer- ✔False
Federalism is the most effective way to encourage diversity, this is why it has been said
that States are the laboratories of democracy. -Answer- ✔True
New federalism is essentially a partial return to the original state centered federalism
the country was founded on. -Answer- ✔True
One of the advantages of federalism is that it is reliant on courts to define the
boundaries between federal and state power. -Answer- ✔False
Same sex marriages cannot be held illegitimate of Georgia due to Article IV of the
Constitution. -Answer- ✔True
A unitary government is the least efficient way to govern. -Answer- ✔False
One of the disadvantages of federalism is that it discourages diversity. -Answer- ✔False
The federal government can indirectly expand its power over the states by the use of
grant funding tied to conditions to obey federal policy. -Answer- ✔True
Federalism is a term used to define the division of power between the central
government and the state governments. -Answer- ✔True
Georgia must recognize a same sex marriage from Massachusetts even though it is not
legal in the state of Georgia. -Answer- ✔True
The supremacy clause is found in Article VI of the Constitution. -Answer- ✔True
The First Amendment has been used historically to protect hate speech, and offensive
expression. -Answer- ✔True
Positive rights are the same thing as civil rights -Answer- ✔True
Just as the federal court system determines the balance of power between the states
and federal government, courts have played the same role in protecting individual civil
liberties from governments. -Answer- ✔True
The free exercise of religion has always been applied the same to each religion, and
each issue that has come in front of the supreme court. -Answer- ✔False
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