Relax. This “air midterm” does not count toward your grade; do not even turn it in. Instead, use it to appraise your own progress in the course. Try out this test, either in your head or on paper. If you flounder, then you should take more care with class sessions and assigned readings.
I. Identifications. Explain the meaning and significance of the following items. Each answer should be a brief paragraph. What is fair game for an identification?
- Items that we have discussed in class or on the blog;
- Items that appear in bold or italics in the readings;
- Items that cover several pages in the readings.
- Natural rights
- Great Compromise
- Eminent domain
- Dual citizenship
- Social Gospel
- The Lemon Test
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Executive agreements
- Indian Citizenship Act
- Divided government
- Mores
- Executive orders
II. Short answers. Each should be a brief paragraph.
1. Briefly explain: “Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions, for although it did not give them the taste for liberty, it singularly facilitates their use thereof."
2. Briefly explain: “[O]f those men who have overturned the iberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.”
3. Which constitutional amendment was a repsonse to the Antifederalists’ concerns that a strong central government would encroach on the power of the states? How did the amendment address those concerns?
III. General Essays. Each answer should take 3-4 small bluebook pages.
1. According to Tocqueville, what are the main causes that check majority tyranny and maintain a democratic republic in the
2. Explain how the Constitution gives power to the president
- Pam Bondi
- Liz Cheney
- Eleni Kounalakis
- Angela Alsbrooks
- Rosaline Friedman
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