PLS 101 Final Exam OTC questions and answers
Which of the following is a concurrent power?
a. control over the money supply
b. social welfare activities
c. criminal law
d. power to tax
e. contract law - answer d. power to tax
What are the two types of powers given to the national gov...
PLS 101 Final Exam OTC questions and answers
Which of the following is a concurrent power?
a. control over the money supply
b. social welfare activities
c. criminal law
d. power to tax
e. contract law - answer d. power to tax
What are the two types of powers given to the national government under the United States
Constitution?
a. enumerated; implied
b. enumerated; suggested
c. implied; explicit
d. suggested; explicit
e. suggested; implied - answer a. enumerated; implied
Indirect democracy is based on which of the following?
a. consensus
b. unanimity
c. representation
d. "mob rule"
e the system of government used in ancient Greece - answer c. representation
________ powers are shared by the federal and state governments. - answer Concurrent
In recent years, the Supreme Court has struggled to address _______ on the internet in a First
Amendment context. - answer obscenity
Which test examines the constitutionality of religious establishments? - answer Lemon
,What was the first major Supreme Court decision to define the relationship between the federal
and state government? - answer McCulloch v. Maryland
The Free Exercise Clause guarantees that the national government will not interfere with which
of the following?
a. education
b. finance
c. business
d. speech
e. religion - answer d. speech
The provision of the Fourteenth Amendment that prohibits any states from denying "any person
within its jurisdiction the euqal protection of the laws" is known as _____ clause. - answer Equal
Protection
How many constitutions has the United States had in its history? - answer Two
Over time, Americans' expectations of government have generally _______. - answer increased
Which clause prevents the national government from sanctioning an official religion? - answer
establishment
A false written statement is _______; the same statement spoken aloud is _______. - answer
libel; slander
How does the preamble to the Constitution begin? - answer "We the people...."
The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees citizens the right to vote regardless of _______. - answer
Race
The power to regulate immigration is best described as a(n) _______ power. - answer concurrent
, The doctrine of prior restraint prevents the government from prohibiting speech or publication
________. - answer before the fact
Which of the following created the right to privacy?
a. the Bill of Rights
b. the Constitution
c the executive branch
d. the legislature
e. the judiciary - answer e. the judiciary
The Supreme Court has used selective incorporation to _________ the rights of states. - answer
limit
The U.S. Constitution was adopted in response to the weaknesses of the Articles of ______. -
answer Confederation
Selective incorporation makes the protections from the Bill of Rights applicable to the states
through which of the following amendments?
a. Fourth
b. Fifth
c. Sixth
d. Tenth
e. Fourteenth - answer e. Fourteenth
Article III of the Constitution permits Congress to establish lower national courts. True or False?
- answer True
What type of legislature did the United States have under the Articles of Confederation? -
answer unicameral
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