PS 201 Exam 1 Quiz Study

Question 1

Which plan perpetuated the composition and selection of Congress as it functioned under the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 1

New Jersey Plan

Question 2

In Federalist No. 10, Madison defines a faction as “a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest ______.”

Answer 2

adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community

Question 3

The checks and balances contained within the Constitution result in which of the following?

Answer 3

some capacity of each of the three branches to limit the power of the other two

Question 4

The way that enslaved persons were counted in the constitution is ______.

Answer 4

as three-fifths of a person

Question 5

Thomas Jefferson articulated the real rationale for throwing off British rule in the Declaration of Independence as ______.

Answer 5

the fundamental right of self-governance

Question 6

To keep the amendment of the Constitution from being too easy an option for a popular majority to accomplish, the Framers did which of the following?

Answer 6

They imposed heavy transaction costs on changing the Constitution that required support of Congress and the states.

Question 7

Assigning authority to make and implement decisions to a small number of persons who are expected to act on behalf of the larger group’s interest is an example of which of the following?

Answer 7

delegation

Question 8

Setting up rules limiting access to the common resource and monitoring and penalizing those who violate them is referred to as ______.

Answer 8

regulation

Question 9

What are transaction costs?

Answer 9

the time, effort, and resources required to make collective decisions

Question 10

Which of the following is a good formal definition of politics?

Answer 10

the process through which individuals and groups seek agreement on a course of common action

Question 11

Federal laws that assert the national government’s prerogative to control public policy in a particular field are referred to as ______.

Answer 11

preemption legislation

Question 12

What was the largest program within President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty?

Answer 12

Medicaid

Question 13

Which amendment provides the most explicit endorsement of federalism found in the Constitution?

Answer 13

Tenth

Question 14

Which of the following consists of financial inducements, usually in the form of grants to states?

Answer 14

The carrot

Question 15

Early feminists called themselves “suffragists” because of which of the following?

Answer 15

One important issue for them was campaigning for the vote.

Question 16

Jim Crow laws were which of the following?

Answer 16

laws adopted throughout the South to disenfranchise Black citizens and to institutionalize segregation

Question 17

Modern-day civil rights struggles tend to be focused on ______.

Answer 17

preventing majorities from subjugating minority groups

Question 18

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution provides in part that no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without the due process of law,” nor ______.

Answer 18

“deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”

Question 19

The reaction to Brown v. Board of Education was ______.

Answer 19

met with massive resistance in the South as states refused to comply

Question 20

Which of the following statements about the shift from litigation to mass demonstrations to secure civil rights is most accurate?

Answer 20

Black southern preachers played a major role planning and coordinating protests because they were skilled in organizing and developing trust with their congregations while free from white reprisals.