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A Government’s authority

• is evident when government officals use thier right to exercise power

• Is based on pluralism

• does not include the power to arrest and imprison

• endures that lawless prevails most of the time

• is by definition non coercive

Critical Thinking is best described as

• assuming that all news is lies until alternative truths present themselves

• discounting the news from ordinary media outlets

• trusting your instincts on the way the world works

• rejecting the accounts of bureaucrats and finding alternative versions online.

• the process of forming an opinion after weighing the relevant facts.

Fiscal federalism refers to the

• ability of the states to manipulate federal decision making.

• coordinated fiscal policy decisions of the federal government and the states.

• expenditure of federal funds on programs run in part through state and local governments.

• national banking system first established by Alexander Hamilton in the 1790s.

• fact that both the federal government and the states have the power to tax

Roughly one in every ________ dollars spent by local and state governments in recent decades was raised not by them but by the government in Washington.

• ten

• fifty

• two

• five

• one hundred

The doctrine of nullification is most closely associated with

• Thomas Jefferson

• Roger B. Taney

• Andrew Jackson

• John Marshall

• John C. Calhoun

In the Constitution, procedural due process is protected in various ways by the

• Eighth Amendment

• Fourth Amendment

• Fifth Amendment

• Sixth Amendment

• All of these are correct

The Lemon test is designed to

• prevent a prosecution or defense from creating a biased jury.

• test state adherence to rights protected by proxy in the Fourteenth Amendment.

• ensure that a defendant has been given access to counsel from the time of arrest through a trial.

• test a state's practice of guaranteeing procedural due process rights.

• ensure the secular nature of a government action or policy.

Individualism is the idea that

• individuals should be free to act and think as they choose.

• people should take initiative and be self-sufficient.

• all individuals are equal in their moral worth.

• there should be formal limits on citizens' power.

• people are the ultimate source of governing authority.

Pluralism contends that, on most issues,

• corporate elites have more control over economic policy than do "the politicians in the visible government."

• true authority lies with the elected politicians, and not with the public that put them in office.

• the diverse nature of the citizenry enhances the democratic process in policymaking.

• the will of the majority of the voting public determines government policy.

• it is the preferences of special interests that largely determine what government does.

What is a major limit on majoritarianism, as suggested by the text?

• The public lacks access to the information required to take informed political action on most issues dealt with by the government each year.

• The public as a whole takes an interest in only a few of the hundreds of policy decisions that U.S. officials make each year.

• The actions of special interest groups are ultimately more influential than the voting power of the public.

• The rapid turnover of government officials and members of the legislature prevents the majority public from making a sustained effort for any single issue.

• The most power tends to reside with a wealthy minority of the voting public, preventing the majority public from setting the issue agenda.