Question 1
(TCO 3) What made the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case so controversial?
It limited the size of donations made by corporations.
It required that all campaign donors’ names be public.
It said corporations have the same First Amendment rights as individuals.
It required that citizens present a valid form of identification when voting.
It set specific limitations on the size of PACs.
Question 2
(TCO 3) What kind of vote takes place most often in America for deciding the winner of a single-member district?
Majority vote
Simple majority vote
Supermajority vote
Objective vote
Plurality vote
Question 3
(TCO 3) What term is used to describe the system of voting where the seats of the legislature are assigned to parties based on the percentage of the popular vote that each party receives?
Plurality
Proportional
Mechanized
Subjective
Repetitional
Question 4
(TCO 4) What protects citizens in the U.S. against the abuse of police power?
The First Amendment
The Second Amendment
The Fifth Amendment
The Fourth Amendment
The Sixth Amendment
Question 5
(TCO 3) Which of the following is true with regard to health care in the United States?
The U.S. population is aging and thus requires increasing public expenditures for Medicare and Medicaid.
The cost of health care is increasing at a lower rate than inflation.
Most Americans receive adequate health insurance through their employers.
All Americans are adequately covered by private health insurance policies.
The U.S. population is growing so prosperous that it will not require Medicare or Medicaid.
Question 6
(TCO 3) Which theory says that the necessities involved in managing an organization inevitably become concentrated in the hands of a few bureaucrats, who then wield true power in the organization?
Political apathy
Low-information rationality
Elitist theory of democracy
Iron law of oligarchy
Political efficacy
Question 7
(TCO 3) What is a major criticism of the winner-take-all electoral system?
It emphasizes political parties at the expense of individual candidates.
It limits voter choice and makes it impossible for minor parties to compete in elections.
It causes a pronounced tendency toward party decentralization.
It makes forming a national consensus more difficult.
It encourages the emergence of single-issue splinter parties.
Question 8
(TCO 3) What term is used to describe a question on the ballot asking citizens to give the state permission to repeal an existing law?
Recall
Primary
Legislative referendum
Run-off
Republic
Question 9
(TCO 4) What do conservatives argue about the middle class in America?
That it is disappearing
That it remains large and essential to the U.S. economy
That government needs to enact new legislation to protect and assist the middle class
That the tax burden falls disproportionately on the middle class
That the middle class’s share of the nation’s prosperity has fallen since the 1970s
Question 10
(TCO 4) Under the legal concept of Affirmative Action, all of these groups can and have requested preferential treatment based on past discrimination EXCEPT
women.
White men.
gays.
Arab Americans.
Native Americans.
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