TEST BANK
American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure
BY CAL JILLSON
2nd Edition
, Test Bank for American Government Constitutional
Democracy Under Pressure, 1e Cal Jillson (All
Chapters)
Chapter 1 – The Revolution and the Constitution –
Single-Select Multiple Choice
Question Answe A B C D
r
Who wrote that, without an c Niccolò Machiavelli John Thomas Hobbes John Locke
all- powerful monarch, human Calvin
beings will fall into a war of all
against all in which life is
“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish,
and short”?
In addition to social contract c Nothing else was Divine right Separation of powers Unlimited,
theory, what are two other taken monarchy and the and free markets immoderate
concepts taken from classical Common Law constitutional
liberalism that influenced the regime
Founding generation?
Who were the Pilgrims? b Wealthy English Middling English Wealthy English Middling English
Puritans who Puritans who Anglicans who Anglicans who settled
settled in the settled in New settled in the in the Mid-Atlantic in
South in order to England in order South in order to order to develop it
avoid religious to avoid religious develop it economically and in
persecution in persecution in the economically some cases to avoid
the home home country religious persecution
country in
the home country
,What drove the idea behind the d The orthodox Banishment was The vastness of the All of the above
notion that the Americans had did not feel the an accepted form land allowed for
“space” for dissent? need to destroy of punishment pockets of
the unorthodox acceptability
interspersed
between places of
orthodoxy
To what area of social life did c Law Government The economy Culture
Adam Smith most extensively and politics
apply the principles of classical
liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker d Hobbes Machiavelli Montesquieu Bacon
was the earliest to argue most
influentially that science and
discovery worked for the
eternal benefit of society?
When did the concept of c At the At the Magna At the American At the English
individualism find its brightest Constitutional Carta and in the Revolution and in the Revolution and in the
moment and what form did it Convention and form of the form of the idea that form of religious
take? in the form of Barony freedom has its own tolerance
separation of order and structure
powers
What did the ancients mean by b They thought it Rule by the Rule by the people in They thought it was
“democracy?” was equivalent people in the their own self- equivalent to “free
to “mob rule” interest of the interest government”
entire community
Name two philosophers b Locke and Smith Locke and Hobbes Polybius Rorty and Rawls
associated with social contract and
theory Machiavelli
What two concepts does b Large Limited Large government Limited government
classical liberalism favor? government government and and individual rights and aggregate rights
and aggregate individual rights
rights
, What was the dominant b Social Democracy Classical Liberalism Classical Corporatist Capitalism
American political and social Republicanism
ideology in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries?
Which of the following are d Space for dissent Social fluidity and Equality and All of the above
characteristics of American and economic heterogeneity tolerance
colonial settlement that opportunity
influenced
American political development?
What was the official religion of a There was no Puritanism Anglican Catholicism
the British colonies in North single official
America? religion
throughout all of
the British
colonies
Who is the legitimate source of d The powerful The rich The divine The people
political authority, according to
the idea of individualism?
What is social contract theory? a An argument An argument that An argument that An argument that
that the the legitimate the non-legitimate power rests
legitimate origin origin of origin of exclusively with those
of government is government rests government is in best suited to
in the agreement with the “divine the agreement of a exercise it
of a free people right of kings” free people
An uprising that convinced b Boston Massacre Shay's Rebellion Boston Tea Party The Second
Americans to support a Constitutional
stronger national Convention
government was ^
^
.
The written constitution c the writings of Scotland the United States France
first developed in ^ ^. John Locke
American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure
BY CAL JILLSON
2nd Edition
, Test Bank for American Government Constitutional
Democracy Under Pressure, 1e Cal Jillson (All
Chapters)
Chapter 1 – The Revolution and the Constitution –
Single-Select Multiple Choice
Question Answe A B C D
r
Who wrote that, without an c Niccolò Machiavelli John Thomas Hobbes John Locke
all- powerful monarch, human Calvin
beings will fall into a war of all
against all in which life is
“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish,
and short”?
In addition to social contract c Nothing else was Divine right Separation of powers Unlimited,
theory, what are two other taken monarchy and the and free markets immoderate
concepts taken from classical Common Law constitutional
liberalism that influenced the regime
Founding generation?
Who were the Pilgrims? b Wealthy English Middling English Wealthy English Middling English
Puritans who Puritans who Anglicans who Anglicans who settled
settled in the settled in New settled in the in the Mid-Atlantic in
South in order to England in order South in order to order to develop it
avoid religious to avoid religious develop it economically and in
persecution in persecution in the economically some cases to avoid
the home home country religious persecution
country in
the home country
,What drove the idea behind the d The orthodox Banishment was The vastness of the All of the above
notion that the Americans had did not feel the an accepted form land allowed for
“space” for dissent? need to destroy of punishment pockets of
the unorthodox acceptability
interspersed
between places of
orthodoxy
To what area of social life did c Law Government The economy Culture
Adam Smith most extensively and politics
apply the principles of classical
liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker d Hobbes Machiavelli Montesquieu Bacon
was the earliest to argue most
influentially that science and
discovery worked for the
eternal benefit of society?
When did the concept of c At the At the Magna At the American At the English
individualism find its brightest Constitutional Carta and in the Revolution and in the Revolution and in the
moment and what form did it Convention and form of the form of the idea that form of religious
take? in the form of Barony freedom has its own tolerance
separation of order and structure
powers
What did the ancients mean by b They thought it Rule by the Rule by the people in They thought it was
“democracy?” was equivalent people in the their own self- equivalent to “free
to “mob rule” interest of the interest government”
entire community
Name two philosophers b Locke and Smith Locke and Hobbes Polybius Rorty and Rawls
associated with social contract and
theory Machiavelli
What two concepts does b Large Limited Large government Limited government
classical liberalism favor? government government and and individual rights and aggregate rights
and aggregate individual rights
rights
, What was the dominant b Social Democracy Classical Liberalism Classical Corporatist Capitalism
American political and social Republicanism
ideology in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries?
Which of the following are d Space for dissent Social fluidity and Equality and All of the above
characteristics of American and economic heterogeneity tolerance
colonial settlement that opportunity
influenced
American political development?
What was the official religion of a There was no Puritanism Anglican Catholicism
the British colonies in North single official
America? religion
throughout all of
the British
colonies
Who is the legitimate source of d The powerful The rich The divine The people
political authority, according to
the idea of individualism?
What is social contract theory? a An argument An argument that An argument that An argument that
that the the legitimate the non-legitimate power rests
legitimate origin origin of origin of exclusively with those
of government is government rests government is in best suited to
in the agreement with the “divine the agreement of a exercise it
of a free people right of kings” free people
An uprising that convinced b Boston Massacre Shay's Rebellion Boston Tea Party The Second
Americans to support a Constitutional
stronger national Convention
government was ^
^
.
The written constitution c the writings of Scotland the United States France
first developed in ^ ^. John Locke
