EXAM REVIEW - 4.25.23

Which of the following is generally understood to be the purpose of the

Tenth Amendment to the Constitution?

• It reserves powers to the states.

• It lowers the legal voting age from 21 to 18.

• It grants voting rights to all American women.

• It allows for trial by jury in common-law cases.

• It states that:

  You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.

Given the structure of the electoral college system, presidential candidates

tend to

• avoid battleground states and focus their campaigns on “safe” states

• campaign more heavily in states with large populations

• spend more television advertising money in the Plains States

• campaign extensively in states that heavily favor one party over the other

• focus on winning the national popular vote

The Commerce Clause of the Constitution has been used to

• release detainees from prison following unlawful arrest

• maintain the navy

• increase the power of the national government

• veto legislative bills of attainder

Members of Congress are allowed to mail letters to their constituents at

the government’s expense because of

• the franking privilege

• cloture

• the Sixteenth Amendment

• pork-barrel legislation

• gerrymandering

The separation of church and state is articulated in the (a)  

• establishment clause
• Seventh Amendment
• full faith and credit clause
• Nineteenth Amendment

Which of the following SCOTUS cases established the precedent that a defendant

must be informed of the right to remain silent, the right to a lawyer, and

protection from self-incrimination?

• McDonald v. Chicago

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Mapp v. Ohio

• Texas v. Johnson

• Obergefell v. Hodges

Which of the following actions can the President take without

congressional approval?

• Appoint the Secretary of the Treasury

• Declare war

• Grant pardons

• Appoint SCOTUS Justices

Which of the following plays the most significant role in forming a child’s

political views?

• The geographical area in which the child grows up

• The child’s family

• The media to which the child is exposed

• The child’s religion

• The child’s teacher

All of the following are core values of American political culture EXCEPT

• democracy

• income equality

• individual liberty

• due process

• equality before the law

Which of the following is a purpose of providing Supreme Court justices

with lifetime appointments?

• It forces justices to remain loyal to political affiliations.

• It removes direct political pressures.

• It is difficult to find qualified individuals to become Supreme Court justices.

• It ensures that justices will make decisions that reflect the will of the

  American people.