PS 201 Exam 1 Quiz Study Flashcards
Which plan perpetuated the composition and selection of Congress as it functioned under the Articles of Confederation?
New Jersey Plan
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 ______.”
adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community
The checks and balances contained within the Constitution result in which of the following?
some capacity of each of the three branches to limit the power of the other two
The way that enslaved persons were counted in the constitution is ______.
as three-fifths of a person
Thomas Jefferson articulated the real rationale for throwing off British rule in the Declaration of Independence as ______.
the fundamental right of self-governance
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?
They imposed heavy transaction costs on changing the Constitution that required support of Congress and the states.
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?
delegation
Setting up rules limiting access to the common resource and monitoring and penalizing those who violate them is referred to as ______.
regulation
What are transaction costs?
the time, effort, and resources required to make collective decisions
Which of the following is a good formal definition of politics?
the process through which individuals and groups seek agreement on a course of common action
Federal laws that assert the national government’s prerogative to control public policy in a particular field are referred to as ______.
preemption legislation
What was the largest program within President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty?
Medicaid
Which amendment provides the most explicit endorsement of federalism found in the Constitution?
Tenth
Which of the following consists of financial inducements, usually in the form of grants to states?
The carrot
Early feminists called themselves “suffragists” because of which of the following?
One important issue for them was campaigning for the vote.
Jim Crow laws were which of the following?
laws adopted throughout the South to disenfranchise Black citizens and to institutionalize segregation
Modern-day civil rights struggles tend to be focused on ______.
preventing majorities from subjugating minority groups
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 ______.
“deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”
The reaction to Brown v. Board of Education was ______.
met with massive resistance in the South as states refused to comply
Which of the following statements about the shift from litigation to mass demonstrations to secure civil rights is most accurate?
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.
