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| The plan that advocated a legislature with representation in both houses based on population or wealth was called the ____ | show 🗑
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| show | Americans have a shared commitment to the Constitution and to each other.
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| Which plan contained the supremacy clause? | show 🗑
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| show | popularly elected conventions in nine states
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| The first state to ratify the Constitution was ____ | show 🗑
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| show | four decades
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| show | 1781, six years after Washington’s troops began fighting
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| *Problems with the Articles of Confederation included ____ | show 🗑
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| The system wherein citizens come together to discuss and pass laws and select their rulers is called ____ | show 🗑
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| show | Botswana
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| show | Connecticut Compromise
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| show | federalists
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| The British system concentrates power in the ____ | show 🗑
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| show | each branch has some authority over the others
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| After an amendment has been proposed, it must be ratified by the ____ | show 🗑
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| All of the following are true concerning political parties EXCEPT that they may ____ | show 🗑
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| show | Japan
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| Madison called the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, ____ | show 🗑
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| A procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term is called a(n) ____ | show 🗑
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| show | Senate
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| show | “in a reasonable time.”
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| show | balanced budget
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| show | to be able to control state and local political systems
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| show | Vermont
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| Which of the following is NOT concurrent power shared by the national government and state governments? | show 🗑
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| The Federalist paper most clearly associated with the problems of factions and the ideas of federalism is ____ | show 🗑
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| show | 3,000
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| show | the necessary and proper clause
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| The centralist position has been supported by all of the following EXCEPT ____ | show 🗑
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| show | permissive federalism
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| Powers reserved to the states include all of the following EXCEPT the power to ____ | show 🗑
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| The percentage of individuals in the Republican Party who consider themselves “conservative” is ____ | show 🗑
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| According to early liberal political philosophers, the primary threat to natural rights was ____ | show 🗑
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| The former US senator who argued that the GOP was making a mistake by appearing to ally with the Christian Right was ____ | show 🗑
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| show | creating a sense of disillusionment
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| show | the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
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| Conservatives believe that government should ____ | show 🗑
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| Who is Bernard Sanders? | show 🗑
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| show | Republicans
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| Voter registration of African Americans compared to white is largely explained by differences in ____ | show 🗑
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| All of the following are true EXCEPT ____ | show 🗑
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| show | ethnocentrism
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| After the 2002 election, there were ____ state governors which happened to be women. | show 🗑
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| show | ethnicity
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| show | there has been a resurgence of industrial growth in the New England states.
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| AIPAC is an example of a ____ | show 🗑
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| Employees of associations who try to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches of government are called ____ | show 🗑
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| A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment is considered a(n) ____ | show 🗑
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| *The authors [of the textbook] present categories of interest groups which include ____ | show 🗑
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| show | movements
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| Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return is called ____ | show 🗑
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| show | narrowly controlled by the Republicans
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| show | Keynesian economics
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| During the 1830s and 1840s, the system instituted to nominate candidates for public office was the ____ | show 🗑
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| show | a straight ticket
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| Senators came to be popularly elected with the ratification of the ____ | show 🗑
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| We learned from the 2000 presidential election that a few hundred votes ____ | show 🗑
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| show | latent
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| How strongly people hold beliefs, or the degree to which those beliefs are held, which can be measured on a scale, is termed ____ | show 🗑
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| show | schools, religious and ethnic heritage, and mass media.
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| show | the state of the economy
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| The interacting values which support democracy as found in this text include all of the following EXCEPT ____ | show 🗑
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| show | Shays’ Rebellion
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| The Federalist Papers were written by all of the following EXCEPT ____ | show 🗑
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| *The interrelated political processes that support democracy include ____ | show 🗑
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| show | divided government
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| The Senate has convicted seven ____ after impeachment trials. | show 🗑
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| A court order directing an official to perform an official duty is called a(n) ____ | show 🗑
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| The statement, “In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution,” is attributed to ____ | show 🗑
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| The type of grant which provides federal funds to states for prescribed activities such as welfare, child care, education, social services, preventive health, and health services are ____ | show 🗑
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| show | Canada
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| show | Switzerland
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| Domination of an industry by a single company by fixing prices and discouraging competition is called a(n) ____ | show 🗑
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| show | Karl Marx
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| show | accused persons
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| A major difference between the US and other countries is that ____ | show 🗑
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| show | one in four
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| show | amicus curiae briefs
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| The effectiveness of PAC contributions and the receiving of favorable treatment in congressional committees is ____ | show 🗑
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| show | primary, convention, and caucus.
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| show | national party convention
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| Mid-term elections elect ____ | show 🗑
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| show | substantial
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| show | representative democracy
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| show | confirmation of senior federal appointment
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| show | cooperative federalism
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| The term which refers to the sum of our most cherished shared values is our ____ | show 🗑
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| show | demographics
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| show | unequal distribution of property.”
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| The four major re-aligning elections were in the years ____ | show 🗑
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| show | more elections for more offices
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| *The authors [of the textbook] define the meaning of democracy as ____ | show 🗑
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| The only 2 presidents to be impeached are ____ | show 🗑
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| *Sub-units of government are called ____ | show 🗑
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| show | defense
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| show | South
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| Which of the following environmental groups is mainly concerned with the issues of oceans, global warming, and genetically engineered foods? | show 🗑
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| The percentage of members of a party who vote together on roll call votes in Congress on which a majority of the members of one party vote against a majority of members of another party is called a ____ | show 🗑
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