A.   Efforts to curb drug experimentation in suburban areas

B.   Public service announcements and similar public relations efforts

C.   The development of DARE and other drug education programs

D.   Federal law enforcement efforts and foreign aid

A.   Contradicts the rulings in the Civil Rights Cases of 1883.

B.   Violates the Fourteenth Amendment

C.   Violates the Thirteenth Amendment

D.   Interferes with the flow of interstate commerce

A.   State and local governments more power over important public policies

B.   The national government less control over foreign and defense policy

C.   The national government more control over state and local affairs

D.   State and local governments less control over federal funds

A.   pluralist democracy

B.   populist democracy

C.   elite democracy

D.   anarchy

E.   participatory democracy

A.   Cognitive ideation

B.   Denial

C.   Conceivable detraction

D.   Cognitive dissonance

A.   Limited the states’ powers to incorporate cities and towns

B.   Selectively revised the meaning of several civil rights

C.   Made parts of the Bill of Rights apply to state governments

D.   Incorporated important parts of state law into the Bill of Rights

A.   they would likely pit the haves and have-nots against each other

B.   certain factions might replace the legislature

C.   they would try to eliminate the system of checks and balances in the Constitution

D.   they would create a split between the North and the South

E.   they would likely create tension between minorities

A.   From other citizens, not from the government

B.   From government action, not from other citizens

C.   Of majority freedoms, not minority rights

D.   Of individual freedoms, not criminal rights

A.   Republicanism

B.   Checks and balances

C.   Popular sovereignty

D.   Separation of powers

A.   National security

B.   Libel

C.   Prior restraint

D.   Obscenity

A.   maturation

B.   acculturation

C.   socialization

D.   assessment

A.   were generally successful with few exceptions

B.   were not successful until the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

C.   were not successful until the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment

D.   essentially ended by the time Reconstruction was completed and were not reinitiated until the civil rights era

E.   were blocked by Republicans in Congress

A.   Those with money and power

B.   Neighbors

C.   Political activists

D.   Office-holders

E.   Foreigners

A.   The national government reduced its grants-in-aid to city governments.

B.   Cities and local governments began to receive grants directly from the national government.

C.   The national government began to grant all of its aid to the state governments.

D.   Urban governments became more dependent on states for aid.

A.   Implied powers

B.   Right to qualified representation in the case of criminal suit

C.   Reserved powers

D.   Right to a speedy trial by an impartial jury

A.   Pure capitalism, in which all means used to produce material resources are privately owned

B.   Regulated capitalism, in which business has substantial freedom from government interference, but the government does step in and regulate the economy to guarantee individual rights

C.   Social democracy, in which government plays an enormous role in ensuring substantive guarantees of fair outcomes for all citizens

D.   Socialism, in which economic decisions are made by the government

E.   Pure laissez-faire capitalism, in which the government has no economic role at all

A.   It was used only once before 1857.

B.   The Supreme Court has used the power very infrequently against acts of Congress.

C.   It is not mentioned in the Constitution.

D.   It includes the powers to declare acts of government unconstitutional and to interpret the meaning of all federal and state laws.

E.   It was claimed for the Supreme Court in the case of Marbury v. Madison.

A.   Unimportant because churches don’t openly take positions on political issues

B.   Unimportant because few political people are religious

C.   Important because religion teaches moral values that are often applied to politics

D.   Important as the main source of a person’s sense of political efficacy

A.   were commonly used by nineteenth-century presidents

B.   allow the president to fulfill the office of president as the founders intended

C.   have been used to expand the powers of the presidency beyond what is explicitly stated in the Constitution

D.   were more often used in the nineteenth century by weak presidents

E.   are unconstitutional according to the Supreme Court

A.   Congress can never agree on a course of action when it comes to military decisions

B.   everyone agrees the Supreme Court would probably declare the law unconstitutional

C.   the provisions of the act are vague and make it easy to ignore

D.   public opinion tends to rally around presidents when they deem military action necessary abroad, and Congress has declined to challenge such presidents

E.   Congress has no power under the War Powers Act

A.   a misdemeanor

B.   a felony

C.   a tort

D.   a crime

E.   an infraction

A.   identification

B.   gerrymandering

C.   discipline

D.   polarization

E.   activism

A.   was a strictly ceremonial act with no significance

B.   was a traditional action taken by presidents to signify their agreement with Congress

C.   helped to clarify for executive agencies how they are to implement laws

D.   threatened the system of separation of powers

E.   created agreements between presidents and the heads of foreign governments

A.   roughly the same

B.   slightly behind but catching up gradually

C.   much lower

D.   much higher

E.   slightly higher and holding steady

A.   was trying to avoid the suggestion the Declaration was arguing for the protection of slavery

B.   wanted to reflect the views of the colonists

C.   was trying to gain the support of those who had little property to protect

D.   could not remember what Locke had actually said

E.   liked the sound of “pursuit of happiness” better