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American Government
Constitutional Democracy
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Under Pressure 1st Edition
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TEST BANK
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Cal Jillson
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Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
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TEST BANK
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Test Bankjiuh
— American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under
Pressure, 1st Edition — Cal Jillson
Description
This test bank corresponds to the 1st edition of American Government:
ST
Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure by Cal Jillson. It follows the official
textbook structure and provides comprehensive assessment materials focused on
the enduring tensions between constitutional principles and contemporary
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political, social, and institutional pressures. Coverage emphasizes the
foundations of American constitutional democracy, civil liberties and rights,
political behavior, participation, and the functioning of the national government
institutions.
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1: The Revolution and the Constitution
Chapter 2: Federalism and the American Constitutional Order
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Chapter 3: Civil Liberties
Chapter 4: Civil Rights
Chapter 5: Shaping Americans: Political Socialization, Public Opinion, and the
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Media
Chapter 6: Factions Today: Interest Groups and Political Parties
Chapter 7: Democracy’s Challenge: Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
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Chapter 8: Congress
Chapter 9: The Executive Branch: President and Bureaucracy
Chapter 10: The Federal Courts
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Test Bank for American Government Constitutional Democracy
Under Pressure, 1e Cal Jillson (All Chapters)
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Chapter 1 – The Revolution and the Constitution –
Single-Select Multiple Choice
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Question Answer A B C D
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Who wrote that, without an all- c Niccolò Machiavelli John Calvin Thomas Hobbes John Locke
powerful monarch, human beings
will fall into a war of all against all
in which life is “solitary, poor,
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nasty, brutish, and short”?
In addition to social contract c Nothing else was Divine right Separation of powers Unlimited, immoderate
theory, what are two other taken monarchy and the and free markets constitutional regime
concepts taken from classical Common Law
liberalism that influenced the
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Founding generation?
Who were the Pilgrims? b Wealthy English Middling English Wealthy English Middling English
Puritans who Puritans who settled Anglicans who settled Anglicans who settled in
settled in the South in New England in in the South in order the Mid-Atlantic in order
in order to avoid order to avoid to develop it to develop it
OV
religious religious economically economically and in
persecution in the persecution in the some cases to avoid
home country home country religious persecution in
the home country
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What drove the idea behind the d The orthodox did Banishment was an The vastness of the All of the above
notion that the Americans had not feel the need accepted form of land allowed for
“space” for dissent? to destroy the punishment pockets of
unorthodox acceptability
interspersed between
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places of orthodoxy
To what area of social life did Adam c Law Government and The economy Culture
Smith most extensively apply the politics
principles of classical liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker was d Hobbes Machiavelli Montesquieu Bacon
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the earliest to argue most
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influentially that science and
discovery worked for the eternal
benefit of society?
When did the concept of c At the At the Magna Carta At the American At the English Revolution
individualism find its brightest Constitutional and in the form of Revolution and in the and in the form of
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moment and what form did it take? Convention and in the Barony form of the idea that religious tolerance
the form of freedom has its own
separation of order and structure
powers
What did the ancients mean by b They thought it Rule by the people Rule by the people in They thought it was
PR
“democracy?” was equivalent to in the interest of the their own self-interest equivalent to “free
“mob rule” entire community government”
Name two philosophers associated b Locke and Smith Locke and Hobbes Polybius and Rorty and Rawls
with social contract theory Machiavelli
OV
What two concepts does classical b Large government Limited government Large government and Limited government and
liberalism favor? and aggregate and individual rights individual rights aggregate rights
rights
ED
American Government
Constitutional Democracy
ST
Under Pressure 1st Edition
UV
TEST BANK
IA
_A
Cal Jillson
────────────────────────────────────────────────────
PP
Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
and Students
RO
© Cal Jillson. All rights reserved. Reproduction or
distribution without permission is prohibited.
VE
||| ||| || ||| || | || ||| | || ||| |
D?
TEST BANK
© Medgeek
, Edrftgyihu
Test Bankjiuh
— American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under
Pressure, 1st Edition — Cal Jillson
Description
This test bank corresponds to the 1st edition of American Government:
ST
Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure by Cal Jillson. It follows the official
textbook structure and provides comprehensive assessment materials focused on
the enduring tensions between constitutional principles and contemporary
UV
political, social, and institutional pressures. Coverage emphasizes the
foundations of American constitutional democracy, civil liberties and rights,
political behavior, participation, and the functioning of the national government
institutions.
Table of Contents
IA
Chapter 1: The Revolution and the Constitution
Chapter 2: Federalism and the American Constitutional Order
_A
Chapter 3: Civil Liberties
Chapter 4: Civil Rights
Chapter 5: Shaping Americans: Political Socialization, Public Opinion, and the
PP
Media
Chapter 6: Factions Today: Interest Groups and Political Parties
Chapter 7: Democracy’s Challenge: Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
RO
Chapter 8: Congress
Chapter 9: The Executive Branch: President and Bureaucracy
Chapter 10: The Federal Courts
VE
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© Medgeek
, ST
Test Bank for American Government Constitutional Democracy
Under Pressure, 1e Cal Jillson (All Chapters)
UV
Chapter 1 – The Revolution and the Constitution –
Single-Select Multiple Choice
I
Question Answer A B C D
A_
Who wrote that, without an all- c Niccolò Machiavelli John Calvin Thomas Hobbes John Locke
powerful monarch, human beings
will fall into a war of all against all
in which life is “solitary, poor,
AP
nasty, brutish, and short”?
In addition to social contract c Nothing else was Divine right Separation of powers Unlimited, immoderate
theory, what are two other taken monarchy and the and free markets constitutional regime
concepts taken from classical Common Law
liberalism that influenced the
PR
Founding generation?
Who were the Pilgrims? b Wealthy English Middling English Wealthy English Middling English
Puritans who Puritans who settled Anglicans who settled Anglicans who settled in
settled in the South in New England in in the South in order the Mid-Atlantic in order
in order to avoid order to avoid to develop it to develop it
OV
religious religious economically economically and in
persecution in the persecution in the some cases to avoid
home country home country religious persecution in
the home country
ED
, ST
What drove the idea behind the d The orthodox did Banishment was an The vastness of the All of the above
notion that the Americans had not feel the need accepted form of land allowed for
“space” for dissent? to destroy the punishment pockets of
unorthodox acceptability
interspersed between
UV
places of orthodoxy
To what area of social life did Adam c Law Government and The economy Culture
Smith most extensively apply the politics
principles of classical liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker was d Hobbes Machiavelli Montesquieu Bacon
I
the earliest to argue most
A_
influentially that science and
discovery worked for the eternal
benefit of society?
When did the concept of c At the At the Magna Carta At the American At the English Revolution
individualism find its brightest Constitutional and in the form of Revolution and in the and in the form of
AP
moment and what form did it take? Convention and in the Barony form of the idea that religious tolerance
the form of freedom has its own
separation of order and structure
powers
What did the ancients mean by b They thought it Rule by the people Rule by the people in They thought it was
PR
“democracy?” was equivalent to in the interest of the their own self-interest equivalent to “free
“mob rule” entire community government”
Name two philosophers associated b Locke and Smith Locke and Hobbes Polybius and Rorty and Rawls
with social contract theory Machiavelli
OV
What two concepts does classical b Large government Limited government Large government and Limited government and
liberalism favor? and aggregate and individual rights individual rights aggregate rights
rights
ED
