Summarize the long-term trends in public confidence in government and what the authors say about how such data should be interpreted.
What will be an ideal response?
Surveys indicate that there has been a steady decline in the percentage of Americans who trust the government in Washington to do the right thing since the 1950s. However, people are talking about government officials, not our system of government. Public confidence in the 1950s may have been abnormally high. (We expect much more out of government today and can be more easily disappointed.)
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Which of the following are independent regulatory commissions?
a. Tennessee Valley Authority b. Federal Communications Commission c. Small Business Administration d. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation e. all of the above
Which of the following is true of American public opinion polls?
A) Americans have had increasingly stronger opinions about politics since 1964. B) The media has spent increasingly more time reporting on public opinion since 1964. C) Since 1964, public opinion polls have become increasingly more accurate. D) Since 1964, public opinion polls have become increasingly more divisive. E) all of the above
The necessary and proper clause
A. is located in the Constitution in the text of the Tenth Amendment. B. has served to limit the expansion of national authority. C. was in the original Constitution but was eliminated as a consequence of the Twenty-Seventh Amendment. D. has expanded the role of the national government relative to the states. E. has increased the powers of the state governments at the expense of Congress’s powers.
The Supreme Court recently ruled that the execution of child rapists is unconstitutional on all of the following grounds EXCEPT that
A. only one state allowed for the execution of child rapists on their first conviction. B. only five states had laws that allow for the execution of child rapists. C. crimes other than treason or espionage that do not involve the taking of a life should not be punished with the taking of a life. D. no state had executed a convict for raping a child in over forty years. E. the potential pain suffered by an executed convict in a botched execution amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.