What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution collectively known as?
A. Articles of Confederation
B. Bill of Rights
C. Code of Rights
D. Magna Carta
E. Rules of law
Answer: B
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What will be an ideal response?
In what way were Athenian and colonial American democracy similar?
a. Both defined approximately 20 percent of the population as citizens. b. Both witnessed the rise of grassroots Populist movements. c. Both were based upon the principle of divine right. d. Neither used religion as a basis for defining citizenship. e. Both restricted political participation to a very small group of people.
States that are not clearly reliable to vote for one of the two major political parties, but that are of great interest to presidential candidates, are referred to as
A) ?swing states. B) ?bipartisan states. C) ?undecided states. D) ?purple states. E) ?fly-over states.
Scholars of the cosmopolitan approach to ethics see world politics as not just a collection of states, but as
a. an unjust economic system in which many people are crushed or left behind. b. a system in which distributive justice means little. c. a society of individuals with a set of universal human rights. d. economic classes, including the ownership and working classes, that are forever at odds.