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American Government
Constitutional Democracy
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Under Pressure 2nd 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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— American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under
Pressure, 2nd Edition — Cal Jillson
Description
This Test Bank is aligned with the 2nd Edition of American Government:
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Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure by Cal Jillson. It reflects updates
through 2023, emphasizing contemporary political developments, constitutional
tensions, and institutional challenges within U.S. democracy. The assessment
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materials follow the official textbook structure and are suitable for
undergraduate American government and political science courses.
Chapter Coverage
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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 — Socialization, Public Opinion, and the Media
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Chapter 6: Factions Today — Interest Groups and Political Parties
Chapter 7: Democracy’s Challenge — Voting and Elections
Chapter 8: Congress
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Chapter 9: The Executive Branch
Chapter 10: The Federal Courts
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Test Bank for American Government Constitutional Democracy
Under Pressure, 2e Cal Jillson (All Chapters)
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Chapter 1 – The Revolution and the Constitution – Test Bank for American
Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure, 2e
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Single-Select Multiple Choice
Question
Who wrote that, without an all-
powerful monarch, human beings A_
Answer
c
A
Niccolò Machiavelli
B
John Calvin
C
Thomas Hobbes John Locke
D
AP
will fall into a war of all against all
in which life is “solitary, poor,
nasty, brutish, and short”?
In addition to social contract a Separation of Divine right Hereditary monarchy Unlimited, immoderate
theory, what are two other powers and free monarchy and the and civil law constitutional regime
PR
concepts taken from classical markets Common Law
liberalism that influenced the
Founding generation?
John Winthrop led which early b Wealthy English Middling English Wealthy English Middling English
group of settlers into colonial Puritans who Puritans who settled Anglicans who settled Anglicans who settled in
OV
America? 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
religious religious economically economically
persecution in the persecution in the
home country 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 dissent
unorthodox interspersed between
places of orthodoxy
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To what area of social life did Adam
Smith apply the principles of
classical liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker
c
d
Law
Hobbes
Government and
politics
Machiavelli
The economy
Montesquieu
Culture
Bacon
I
argued most influentially that
A_
science and discovery worked for
the eternal benefit of society?
What did the ancients, including b They thought it They thought it Rule by the people in They thought it was
Plato and Aristotle, mean by required elections meant direct rule by their own self-interest equivalent to “free
AP
“democracy?” the people meeting government”
together personally
Name two philosophers associated b Locke and Smith Locke and Hobbes Polybius and Rorty and Rawls
with social contract theory Machiavelli
What two concepts does classical c Large government Large government Limited government Limited government and
PR
liberalism favor? and aggregate and individual rights and individual rights aggregate rights
rights
What was the dominant American b Social Democracy Classical Liberalism Classical Corporatist Capitalism
political and social ideology in the Republicanism
nineteenth and twentieth
OV
centuries?
Which of the following are d Space for dissent Social fluidity and Equality and tolerance All of the above
characteristics of American colonial and economic heterogeneity
settlement that influenced opportunity
American political development?
ED
American Government
Constitutional Democracy
ST
Under Pressure 2nd 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
||| ||| || ||| || | || ||| | || ||| |
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TEST BANK
© Medgeek
, Edrftgyihu
Test Bankjiuh
— American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under
Pressure, 2nd Edition — Cal Jillson
Description
This Test Bank is aligned with the 2nd Edition of American Government:
ST
Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure by Cal Jillson. It reflects updates
through 2023, emphasizing contemporary political developments, constitutional
tensions, and institutional challenges within U.S. democracy. The assessment
UV
materials follow the official textbook structure and are suitable for
undergraduate American government and political science courses.
Chapter Coverage
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 — Socialization, Public Opinion, and the Media
PP
Chapter 6: Factions Today — Interest Groups and Political Parties
Chapter 7: Democracy’s Challenge — Voting and Elections
Chapter 8: Congress
RO
Chapter 9: The Executive Branch
Chapter 10: The Federal Courts
VE
D?
© Medgeek
, ST
Test Bank for American Government Constitutional Democracy
Under Pressure, 2e Cal Jillson (All Chapters)
UV
Chapter 1 – The Revolution and the Constitution – Test Bank for American
Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure, 2e
I
Single-Select Multiple Choice
Question
Who wrote that, without an all-
powerful monarch, human beings A_
Answer
c
A
Niccolò Machiavelli
B
John Calvin
C
Thomas Hobbes John Locke
D
AP
will fall into a war of all against all
in which life is “solitary, poor,
nasty, brutish, and short”?
In addition to social contract a Separation of Divine right Hereditary monarchy Unlimited, immoderate
theory, what are two other powers and free monarchy and the and civil law constitutional regime
PR
concepts taken from classical markets Common Law
liberalism that influenced the
Founding generation?
John Winthrop led which early b Wealthy English Middling English Wealthy English Middling English
group of settlers into colonial Puritans who Puritans who settled Anglicans who settled Anglicans who settled in
OV
America? 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
religious religious economically economically
persecution in the persecution in the
home country 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 dissent
unorthodox interspersed between
places of orthodoxy
UV
To what area of social life did Adam
Smith apply the principles of
classical liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker
c
d
Law
Hobbes
Government and
politics
Machiavelli
The economy
Montesquieu
Culture
Bacon
I
argued most influentially that
A_
science and discovery worked for
the eternal benefit of society?
What did the ancients, including b They thought it They thought it Rule by the people in They thought it was
Plato and Aristotle, mean by required elections meant direct rule by their own self-interest equivalent to “free
AP
“democracy?” the people meeting government”
together personally
Name two philosophers associated b Locke and Smith Locke and Hobbes Polybius and Rorty and Rawls
with social contract theory Machiavelli
What two concepts does classical c Large government Large government Limited government Limited government and
PR
liberalism favor? and aggregate and individual rights and individual rights aggregate rights
rights
What was the dominant American b Social Democracy Classical Liberalism Classical Corporatist Capitalism
political and social ideology in the Republicanism
nineteenth and twentieth
OV
centuries?
Which of the following are d Space for dissent Social fluidity and Equality and tolerance All of the above
characteristics of American colonial and economic heterogeneity
settlement that influenced opportunity
American political development?
ED
