Civics Literacy Review

Front

Which of the following viewpoints explains support for increasing the minimum wage?
- Full-time workers are at risk of living in poverty.
- Businesses grow best when they pay higher wages.
- Businesses should be able to hire more low-wage workers.

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Full-time workers are at risk of living in poverty.

Front

believed that without government and the rule of law, people would revert to a state of nature and individuals would be left to fight over basic necessities, rendering life “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

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Thomas Hobbes

Front

took basic survival for granted, believing that all humans were endowed with reason—an internal code of conduct

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John Locke

Front

argued for a single ruler a Leviathan, so powerful that the rights of the weak could be protected against intrusion by the strong.

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Hobbes

Front

Terms set by the national government that states (ex Tennessee, Georgia) must meet whether or not they accept federal grants

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Mandates

Front

A decision by an administrative agency granting some other part permission to violate a law or rule that would otherwise apply to it

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Waiver

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Procedure whereby voters can remove an elected official from office

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Recall

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Process that permits voters to put legislative measures directly on the ballot

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Initiative

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Doctrine holding that the national government is supreme in its sphere, the states are supreme in theirs, and the two spheres should be kept separate

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Dual federalism

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Section of the Constitution allowing Congress to pass all laws "necessary and proper" to its duties, and which has permitted Congress to exercise powers not specifically given to it (enumerated) by the Constitution

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Necessary and Proper Clause