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POSC 100 Exam Questions and Answers A form of government in which elected officials, who make policy in the name of the people, are chosen by the people in open, free elections is called - ANSWER-a republic or representative democracy What is a common argument against democracy? - ANSWER-Both (b...

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POSC 100 Exam Questions and Answers


A form of government in which elected officials, who make policy in the name of the people, are chosen

by the people in open, free elections is called - ANSWER✔✔-a republic or representative democracy


What is a common argument against democracy? - ANSWER✔✔-Both (b) Majority rule can threaten

minorities. and (c) People can be irrational and incompetent and may make bad political decisions.


Which of the following are needed for a political system to have popular sovereignty? - ANSWER✔✔-I

and II only (Government policies should reflect the wishes of the people. &


Government leaders are selected by free and fair elections.)


Which of the following statements is TRUE with respect to democracy?


a. Democracy was widely practiced by western European nations throughout the eighteenth century.


b. Democracy is founded on the belief that no government is necessary because people are basically

good-hearted and will always want to work together to meet their mutual needs.


c. Democracy and capitalism cannot exist together.


d. European countries before the eighteenth century were not democratic. - ANSWER✔✔-d. European

countries before the eighteenth century were not democratic.
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1. Initiatives in California (such as Prop 13 and Prop 8) are examples of


a. representative democracy.


b. illegal maneuvers to bypass the state Assembly.


c. direct democracy.


d. an illegal use of power by the Governor to bypass the state Assembly. - ANSWER✔✔-c. direct

democracy.


According to the video clips we saw in class, what will be the main effect of recently-passed Voter ID

Laws?


a. They will significantly reduce widespread electoral fraud.


b. They will make it a lot easier for every citizen to register to vote.


c. They will make it more difficult for mostly Democratic voters to vote.


d. They will make it more difficult for mostly Republican voters to vote. - ANSWER✔✔-c. They will make

it more difficult for mostly Democratic voters to vote.


What can we say about the "democracy standard" from the textbook and course lectures?


a. Achieving popular sovereignty, political liberty and political equality is very easy to do because

everyone likes all three of them.

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b. Political equality has been the part of the democracy standard that the United States has always paid

the most attention to.


c. The best way to protect individual liberties is ALWAYS to allow people to vote on them.


d. Although we like popular sovereignty, political liberty and political equality, it is a struggle to have all

of them at the same time because there are important contradictions that can exist among them. -

ANSWER✔✔-d. Although we like popular sovereignty, political liberty and political equality, it is a

struggle to have all of them at the same time because there are important contradictions that can exist

among them.


In the video lectures, which of the following words did we say was most closely associated with a well-

functioning democracy?


a. Compromise


b. Power


c. Tyranny of the majority


d. Consistency - ANSWER✔✔-a. Compromise


1. If a majority of elected officials voted to impose mandatory religious observations (e.g., school-

sponsored prayer in public schools) on all citizens, regardless of their religious beliefs, and this policy was

supported by a majority of the public, this would violate the principles of



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