US Gov CLEP Module 5

Which of the following accounts for the greatest percentage of expenditure for state and local governments in the United States?

Which of the following best describes the concept of federalism embodied in the United States government?

Public opinion is given a lot of attention in democracies because the democratic form of government rests on

James Madison's goal of setting power against power to minimize the concentration of authority in any one branch of government is outlined in the Constitution as a system of

The authority of a chief executive to withhold approval from specific parts of appropriations bills passed by the legislature is known as

Which of the following political philosophers most influenced the writing of the United States Constitution?

Which of the following is true of the Articles of Confederation?

All of the following can be considered weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation except

In the Constitution as originally ratified in 1788, the provisions regarding which of the following most closely approximate popular, majoritarian democracy?

The Great Compromise solved one of the greatest challenges facing the framers of the Constitution at the Constitutional Convention, the issue of

In The Federalist paper number 10, James Madison argued that

Which of the following statements best reflects the pluralist theory of American politics?

Prior to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, literacy tests were used by some southern states to

Which of the following best describes a referendum?

The use of initiative and referendum illustrates which of the following theories of governance?