POSC 100 Study Guide Ricardo Salas

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POSC 100 Study Guide
Ricardo Salas

• Part 1
• Assignment 4

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Notice

• Dear students
• The odd-numbered questions are answered for
  you. The answers to the even-numbered questions
  are the result of your readings. This is to
  assure that you are understanding the material.
  Good luck!

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Assignment 4
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Federalism

• T or F Questions (9)
• Multiple Choice questions (11)

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True or False Questions

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True or False

• 1/9
• Americans possess what amounts to dual
  citizenship they are citizens both of the United
  States and of the state where they reside.

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Answer

• 1/9
• True

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True or False

• 2/9
• Federalism is a fixed principle for allocating
  power between the national government and the
  state governments.

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True or False

• 3/9
• A unitary system vests sovereignty solely in
  the national government.

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Answer

• 3/9
• True

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True or False

• 4/9
• Federalism had a clear basis in political
  theory that was applied by the Founders at
  Philadelphia when designing the American
  political system.

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True or False

• 5/9
• Although Anti-federalists recognized a need to
  strengthen defense and interstate commerce, they
  feared the consequences of a strong central
  government.

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Answer

• 5/9
• True

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True or False

• 6/9
• According to Patterson, the Antifederalists
  were correct in the age old adage which argues
  that government is best which governs least.

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True or False

• 7/9
• Theorists such as Locke and Montesquieu had
  not proposed a division of power between national
  and local authorities as a means of protecting
  liberty.

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Answer

• 7/9
• True

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True or False

• 8/9
• Conflict between the national and state
  authority was insured by the brevity of the
  Constitution.

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True or False

• 9/9
• The Constitution defines the difference
  between interstate commerce and intrastate
  commerce.

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Answer

• 9/9
• False

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Multiple Choice Questions

• The following questions are multiple choices.
  Select the most appropriate answer.

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1/11

• How did the Supreme Court rule in Gonzales v.
  Oregon (2006) involving an Oregon initiative that
  allowed for doctor assisted suicide?
• a) ruled in favor of John Ashcroft's power to
  punish any
• doctor involved
• b) ruled in favor of religious groups to stop
  the practice
• c) ruled in favor of the original initiative
• d) ruled against Congress's power to regulate
  drugs.

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Answer

• 1/11
• c

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2/11

• The Constitution's division of governing
  authority between two levels, nation and states
  is referred to as
• a) federalism b) checks
  and balances
• c) separation of powers d) enumerated
  powers.

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3/11

• A confederacy is a union where
• a) the authority of the central government stems
  from
• the people
• b) the states retain their sovereignty
• c) the central government can redefine the
  states' role
• d) the people are autonomous.

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Answer

• 3/11
• b

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4/11

• What was a view of the Anti-federalists?
• a) centralized authority was a more efficient
  use of
• governmental power
• b) a unitary system is the ideal political
  system
• c) a distant national government could never
  serve the
• people's interests as well as the states
  could
• d) government is best that is furthest away from
  the
• people.

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5/11

• In Federalist No. 10, Madison contended
• that
• a) the greater the size of a political system,
  the higher
• the probability that the government will
  engage in war
• b) the more people that comprise the state will
  result in
• greater internal turmoil and conflict,
  limiting the
• efficiency of government
• c) interest groups are better curtailed in a
  smaller
• republic since there are fewer of them,
  making it
• easier to monitor interest group actions
• d) a large republic is less likely to have an
  all-powerful
• interest group, forcing interest groups
  to compromise
• with other groups to achieve their ends.

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Answer

• 5/11
• d

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6/11

• Article VI of the Constitution provides that the
  laws of the United States ... shall be the ....
• a) concurrent powers of the land
• b) equal authority of the land
• c) salvation of the land
• d) supreme law of the land.

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7/11

• What areas of the Constitution could lead to an
  expansive national government?
• a) the supremacy and "necessary and proper"
• clauses
• b) the due process and "necessary and proper"
• clauses
• c) the equal protection and elastic clauses
• d) the elastic and privileges and immunities
• clauses.

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Answer

• 7/11
• a

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8/11

• The powers assigned only to states under the
  U.S. Constitution are called
• a) expressed powers b) reserved
  powers
• c) concurrent powers d) enumerated
  powers.

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9/11

• How did Marshall decide the McCulloch
• case?
• a) using the due process clause, he argued that
  the
• power to tax is the power to destroy
• b) embracing the full faith and credit clause,
  he said that
• it allows the federal government to do
  whatever is
• necessary to achieve its mandate
• c) he based his arguments on the theory of
  implied
• powers and the fact that a valid national
  law prevails
• over conflicting state law
• d) he felt that the national government had
  violated its
• authority, ruling that the incorporated
  bank must be
• destroyed.

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Answer

• 9/11
• c

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10/11

• John C. Calhoun argued that the Constitution
  had created a government of states ... not a
  government of individuals, which led to his famed
  doctrine of
• a) interposition b) nationalism
• c) codification d) nullification.

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11/11

• How did 7 justices argue the decision in the
  Dred Scott case?
• a) Scott had the right to sue for his freedom
  based on
• the principles of natural rights
• b) Because his master died while Scott lived in
  a free
• state did entitle the slave to win his
  freedom
• c) Scott, like other slaves, could only be freed
  if he was
• moved to a free state
• d) Slaves were property and therefore had no
  rights to
• sue for their freedom.

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Answer

• 11/11
• d

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pgs. 45-49, 66-71
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P45-47

• 1/9
• Based on Locke's social contract between rulers
  and ruled, what were the three primary natural
  rights of citizens?

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Answer

• 1/9
• Life, Liberty, Property

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2/9

• Charles Beard argued that the Framers of the
  Constitution feared the following
• a) the creditor interests b) the debtor
  majority
• c) the agrarian minority d) property owners.

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3/9

• James Madison's selection from the Federalist
  suggest
• a) a mistrust of ____________,
• b) a wary view of both political _________ and
  the
• ________,
• c) an emphasis upon the need for governmental
• _______ and _________ to prevent the
  arbitrary
• exercise of political power.

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Answer

• 3/9
• Government
• Leaders, people
• checks, balances

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4/9

• True or False
• In spite of Madison's mistrust of human nature,
  he had a positive view of "factions."

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5/9

• True or False
• The separation of powers, argues Woll, was a
  constitutional filter through which political
  demands had to flow before they could be
  translated into public policies.

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Answer

• 5/9
• True

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6/9

• For Alexander Hamilton, he viewed the
  following government entity as a central
  component of the separation of powers that needed
  to be energetic and effective.
• a) the Congress b) the
  Senate
• c) an independent presidency d) the
  judiciary.

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7/9

• True or False
• According to Woll, an "imperial presidency"
  will usually occur during periods of relative
  political tranquility when the Congress has been
  "asleep at the helm."

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Answer

• 7/9
• False

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8/9

• During Washington's presidency, Thomas
  Jefferson argued that the Constitution should be
  _________ interpreted to limit Congress to its
  _________Article 1 powers, which did not allow
  establishment of a national _____.

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9/9

• Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton
  took a "______" constructionist approach in
  support of incorporating a national _____. He
  argues that Article 1 implied such authority
  under its ____________ powers to regulate
  __________ among the states.

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Answer

• 9/9
• Loose, bank, implied
• Enumerated, commerce

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P47-49

• 1/10
• The Constitution was created to strike what sort
  of delicate balance?
• a) property rights and freedom
• b) natural law and civil liberties
• c) governmental power and individual liberty
• d) judicial authority and states' rights.

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Answer

• 1/10
• c

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2/10

• He said the following "In men were angels, no
  government would be necessary. If angels were to
  govern men, neither external nor internal
  controls on government would be necessary."
• a) Thomas Jefferson b) George
  Washington
• c) Alexander Hamilton d) James Madison.

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3/10

• Dependence of government on the people is not
  enough to prevent tyranny and it is necessary to
  include the following auxiliary precautions
• a) a Bill of Rights
• b) an effective military
• c) a separation of powers
• d) an effective central government.

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Answer

• 3/10
• a

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4/10

• True or False
• The Eighth Amendment identifies exactly what
  constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

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5/10

• Article IV in the Constitution requires that
  the United States shall guarantee to every state
• a) a Republican Form of Government
• b) a Democratic Form of Government
• c) a Limited Form of Government
• d) a Government for and by the People.

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Answer

• 5/10
• a

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6/10

• True or False
• The Fourteenth Amendment contains no catalogue
  of privileges or immunities.

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7/10

• True or False
• For Tribe and Dorf, to apply the Constitution
  to contemporary problems is simply a "liberal"
  position.

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Answer

• 7/10
• False

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8/10

• He said, the Constitution "is a document
  announcing fundamental principles in value-laden
  terms that leave ample scope for the exercise of
  normative judgment ..."
• a) William Rehnquist b) Thurgood Marshall
• c) Byron White d) William
  Brennan.

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9/10

• True or False
• The authors reject the notion that the
  Constitution must be interpreted strictly by
  identifying the original intent of the Framers,
  and embrace the notion of an infinitely malleable
  Constitution.

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Answer

• 9/10
• False

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10/10

• True or False
• According to Tribe and Dorf, the terms
  "liberty," "due process of law," and
  "unreasonable searches and seizures" have
  supporting meanings at opposite ends of virtually
  any legal, political, or ideological spectrum.

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P66-71 Madison, Federalist 39

• 1/17 True or False
• In Federalist 39 Madison said that the
  incorporation of the Constitution required
  agreement among the states therefore, it was a
  federal not a national act (federal and
  confederation are used interchangeably).

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Answer

• 1/17
• True

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2/17

• True or False
• The powers of the national government, argued
  Madison, are national not federal because they
  allow the national government to act directly
  upon the people.

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3/17

• True or False
• Madison argued in Federalist 39 that Britain
  had a purely republican form of government.

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Answer

• 3/17
• False

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4/17

• Madison defines a republican form of government
  as "a government which derives all its powers
  directly or indirectly from ...the _______, and
  is administered by persons holding their offices
  during pleasure for a ________ period, or during
  ______ _________.

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5/17

• True or False
• For Madison, a republican form of government
  allows for a favored class to have a
  disproportionate amount of influence.

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Answer

• 5/17
• False

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6/17

• Though he argued for limited terms for the
  legislative and executive officials, Madison said
  that members of the judiciary should receive
• a) 6 year terms b) 10 year terms
• c) 12 year terms d) lifetime terms

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7/17

• House members receive terms of
• a) 2 years b) 4 years
• c) 6 years d) 12 years

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Answer

• 7/17
• a

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8/17

• True or False
• According to Madison (Federalist 39), the
  Senate derives its authority indirectly from the
  people.

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9/17

• Senators are elected for
• a) 2 year terms b) 4 year terms
• c) 6 year terms d) 8 year terms

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Answer

• 9/17
• c

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10/17

• True or False
• The President is impeachable at any time
• during his continuance in office.

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11/17

• Ratification of the Constitution would occur
  by
• a) deputies elected for that purpose,
  representing the
• states
• b) already elected state legislators,
  representing the
• national government
• c) members of Congress
• d) the people would vote directly, representing
  a
• national principle.

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Answer

• 11/17
• a

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12/17

• True or False
• The act of establishing the Constitution,
  according to Madison in Federalist 39, would be a
  national, not a federal act.

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13/17

• True or False
• The House of Representatives represents a
  national, not a federal principle according to
  Madison.

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Answer

• 13/17
• True

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14/17

• True or False
• With regards to its role, the federal
  government is a national operation according to
  Madison.

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15/17

• If there is a dispute between the federal and
  the state governments over jurisdiction, argued
  Madison, what would resolve the dispute?
• a) a tribunal b) the Congress
• c) the military d) the states

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Answer

• 15/17
• a

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16/17

• True or False
• The amending process includes both federal and
  national principles according to Madison.

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17/17

• True or False
• Madison implied in Federalist 39 that the
  jurisdiction of the national government extended
  only to certain enumerated objects, and the
  residual sovereignty was in fact greater than the
  sovereignty of the national government.

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Answer

• 17/17
• True

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The End