FREE AP US Government & Politics Question and Answers

Which of the following statements concerning the trends of group voting is accurate?

More women than men identify themselves as Republicans

Rural voters are more likely to support Democratic candidates than are urban voters

African American Democrats tend to support the more liberal candidates within their party

Protestant voters tend to be more liberal than Roman Catholics on economic issues

Correct! Wrong!

Shays' Rebellion was crucial in the formation of the US Constitution because it

Demonstrated the intensity of anti-ratification sentiment within the thirteen states

Indicated that a strong, constitutionally designed national government was needed to protect property and maintain order

Revealed the necessity of both adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution and creating a new system of checks and balances

Reinforced the idea that slavery should be outlawed in the new Constitution

Correct! Wrong!

Explanation:
Shays' Rebellion was crucial for a number of reasons. The insurrection most notably contributed to the creation of a new, stronger Constitution by exposing the fundamental fragility of the federal authority under the Articles of Confederation. Influential leaders had already started to recognize the limitations of the Articles before Shays' Rebellion.

Which of the following actions did Congress take to reclaim authority that had been ceded to the executive branch?

Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act

Budget and Impoundment Control Act

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Presidential Disability Act

Correct! Wrong!

Which of the following presidential nomination processes has seen a notable trend during the past three decades?

Increasing importance of presidential primaries rather than state conventions

A sharply declining role for political action committees (PAC's)

Decreasing cost of campaigns

Increasing control by political party leaders over outcomes

Correct! Wrong!

The federal judiciary's decisions have been most successfully changed by presidents by

Using the media to build consensus for the President's position

Using the appointment process to select judges with judicial philosophies similar to those of the President

Threatening to ask Congress to impeach specific judges

Requesting that Congress reduce the term of office that judges may serve

Correct! Wrong!

Explanation:
By leveraging the nomination process to choose judges with ideologies similar to their own, presidents have had the most success in shifting the ideological focus of the federal judiciary.

The House's committee structure is more significant than the Senate's because

Committee members are appointed by the President

The majority party in the House prefers to give priority to the work of the committees

The House is so large that more work can by accomplished in committees than on the floor

The Constitution mandates the type of committee structure in the House

Correct! Wrong!

Because of how the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution, the majority of the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights now apply to the states.

Supremacy clause

Tenth Amendment

Necessary and proper clause

Fourteenth Amendment

Correct! Wrong!

Explanation:
The Fourteenth Amendment contains a variety of significant ideas, most notably Section One's state action, privileges and immunities, citizenship, due process, and equal protection. There are four other provisions in the Fourteenth Amendment, though. The distribution of congressional representatives is covered in Section 2. Anyone who engages in "insurrection or revolt" against the United States is prohibited from holding federal office, according to Section 3. Section Four discusses federal debt and renounces Confederate debts. The Fourteenth Amendment may be enforced "by proper legislation," as stated in Section Five. Along with the two Reconstruction Amendments—the Thirteenth and Fifteenth—the States approved the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, shortly after the American Civil War.

FREE AP US Government & Politics Question and Answers

Which of the following statements concerning the trends of group voting is accurate?

Shays' Rebellion was crucial in the formation of the US Constitution because it

Which of the following actions did Congress take to reclaim authority that had been ceded to the executive branch?

Which of the following presidential nomination processes has seen a notable trend during the past three decades?

The federal judiciary's decisions have been most successfully changed by presidents by

The House's committee structure is more significant than the Senate's because

Because of how the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution, the majority of the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights now apply to the states.

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