Which of the following contradicts republican ideals?
a) awarding rights to people based on noble birth
b) selling off government land to balance the budget
c) electing representatives to state legislatures
d) abolishing laws of primogeniture and entail
a) awarding rights to people based on noble birth
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Immigrants, Catholics, freethinkers, and backwoods farmers generally supported the __________.
a) Democrats b) Whigs c) Anti-Masonic party d) National Republicans
What did Montesquieu argue in The Spirit of the Laws?
a. A balanced political order was based on a contract between subjects and government. b. An absolute monarchy was the best form of government. c. Citizens must voluntarily give up some of their autonomy to a government. d. Only propertied males should be able to take an active part in government. e. Power of government should be limited and rationally distributed between social classes.
Vedic society was
A. strongly patriarchal until the creation of the Lawbook of Manu changed gender rules. B. strongly matriarchal. C. alternately patriarchal and matriarchal, depending upon which god was in power. D. marked by equality of the sexes. E. strongly patriarchal.
Unlike Mesopotamia's rivers, the flooding of Egypt's Nile was gradual and usually predictable, and the river was seen as life-enhancing rather than life-threatening.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)