POLS 207 - EXAM 1 – CHUPP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

POLS 207 - EXAM 1 – CHUPP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS /.What is the overall purpose of government? - Answer-Promote the overall good /.2. Goal of politics? - Answer-Develop virtue To be happy truly, you must be practicing virtue (Greek philosophy) Impossible for an immoral person to be happy (ie. an addict can only feel happiness through their addiction and eventually that fades as well) Incocate virtue into the citizens for them to be happy /.3. What are the three types of virtuous governments according to Aristotle? - Answer-1. Monarchy 1. Lead by a virtuous person to teach other 2. Aristocracy 1. Lead by a virtuous council of people 3. Polity 1. Mix between monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy /.4. What are the three vicious types of governments? - Answer-1. Tyranny 2. Oligarchy 1. Rule of the rich through the exploitation of the poor 3. Democracy 1. The rule of the poor/common folk that exploits the rich 2. Eventually turns into tyranny to keep order over a vicious population (ie. the Soviet Union) /.5. What is the difference between tribe customs and laws? - Answer-1. Tribal customs are used to solve their disagreements, use common heritage and stories to solve it 2. Laws are when non-blood related people come together to agree on a form of rule that promotes the common good /.6. What is the difference between legitimate and illegitimate government and what are their characteristics? - Answer-1. Legitimate 1. Peace, Justice, Security, Stability 2. Healthy body politic 2. Illegitimate 1. Insecurity, tyranny, instability, war 2. Sick body politic /.What were the characteristics of the American colonists? - Answer-Americans came from religious dissenters and political and economic opportunists 1. North was populated by the former and the south was populated by the latter /.What type of governments did the American colonists institute initially? - Answer-Town meeting, council government. That was how they governed as towns before /.Why did America win the War for Independence? - Answer-1. Americans desire for self rule from British neglect until they could tax them and they were too far away to be properly governed 2. British eventually gave up because it was too much work for too little gain /.What type of national government did the Strong Federalists want? - Answer-1. They wanted a Unitary state that was superior in every way to the state governments. 2. Did not get it because it could not have been ratified at first. Current draft was the best that they could do. Sold primarily by George Washington because they trusted George and his rule. /.11. What were the theological virtues of Christendom and what was their relationship to the cardinal virtues? - Answer-1. Virtues: Temperance, Prudence, 1. Things that people choose to do to be truly happy 2. Faith, hope and love are the Christian theological virtues 3. They did not want to get ride of the seven virtues, they wanted to include the others as well /.Why were the Popes initially dominant over the early European kings? - Answer-1. The church was the most organized society/institution after the Roman Empire fell 2. Pope exercised strong spiritual authority over the German kings, but the kings still did not like that the Pope messed with their business 3. The German tribal kings did not have the might that the Roman Empire had, and they could not mount a counter to the Pope 4. When they finally did, that is when the Reformation occurred and England and Germany broke from the Papacy, and the Vatican never recovered to this full strength /.What was the attitude of the Founders about the proper relationship between religious and politics? - Answer-1. Secular. The first time a group of Christians set up a government in which you did not have to be a Christian to have any power 1. Reformation and several wars gave them the idea for this /.What is Natural Law? - Answer-A set of principles inherent in nature that sets forth ethics and behaviors to follow /.What is the Social Contract? - Answer-1. The ruler and the ruled have a contract. The ruled are obedient to the government and the government is to protect the population and serve them and the public good. 2. The above is the secular update to the christian natural law that had come before it /.Which two Social Contract writers were mentioned in class, what were their theories, and whose theory was preferred by the Founders? - Answer-1. Hobbes and Locke 1. Hobbes says that leaders only owes prevention of civil war 2. Locke agreed, but said that the leader owes liberty as well /.Describe Fed. 10? - Answer-1. Tiny version of the Constitution 2. Few representatives and large districts upheld in the Federalist 1. You tend to get the most virtuous and rich people if you have few /.Describe the US Constitution's amendment process, its ease, and purpose? - Answer-1. 2/3rds of the states propose or 2/3rds of congress propose 2. Ratification needs 3/4rds of the states to ratify the constitution 3. Whole idea was to make it hard to change the constitution in the first place /.Were the Federalists or Anti-Federalists more accurate in their predictions about the actual operation of the American federalism? - Answer-1. Not even close, AF. 2. Almost all of the AF predictions were right. But Feds wanted it anyway because they wanted that unitary state. /.Why did the Civil War begin when it did? - Answer-1. The election of Abe Lincoln. All negotiation of secession before that was at an end because of Lincoln. 2. The south suspected that he would use the power of the Federal government to keep them from seceding /.Did Sam Houston want to secede? - Answer-No. Texas had to oust him as governor before they could secede /.Why did the North win the Civil War? - Answer-1. Weren't at first, South better generals. North did not do what Abe wanted (war of attrition) 2. Grant, Sherman, Sherman and Abe got his victory /.How did FDR complete Lincoln's project? - Answer-1. Still approved slowly that the federal gov was supreme until FDR came along 2. The New Deal ensured and expanded the power of the federal government and finally got that unitary government 3. Lincoln wanted a strong government to keep the union together, FDR asserted the federal government's power to create programs to "help" people during the Depression /.Describe New Federalism and its relationship to Dominant National Federalism. - Answer-In reality, once Regan was elected, nothing really changed. The state still is reliant on the fed for money and resources.