Test Bank For American Government Institutions and Policies, Brief Version 12th Edition by James Q. Wilson

True / False

1. The American experience suggests that many of the Antifederalists’ primary concerns about the size of government were not unwarranted.

  a.  True

  b.  False

ANSWER:   True

REFERENCES:   51

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   AGBR.WILS.12.3.1 – LO1

2. The Constitution has been amended only 23 times in more than 225 years.

  a.  True

  b.  False

ANSWER:   False

REFERENCES:   51

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   AGBR.WILS.12.3.1 – LO1

3. Over the last half-century, state and local government spending has declined significantly.

  a.  True

  b.  False

ANSWER:   False

REFERENCES:   51

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   AGBR.WILS.12.3.1 – LO1

4. Politically, the most consistent conflict has been relations between state and national governments.

  a.  True

  b.  False

ANSWER:   True

REFERENCES:   52

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   AGBR.WILS.12.3.1 – LO1

5. The Founders envisioned a system in which the national government would have supreme authority over the state governments.

  a.  True

  b.  False

ANSWER:   False

REFERENCES:   54

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   AGBR.WILS.12.3.2 – LO2

6. The wording of the U.S. Constitution regarding the federal government’s right to make laws is purposely vague and elastic.

  a.  True

  b.  False

ANSWER:   True

REFERENCES:   55

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   AGBR.WILS.12.3.2 – LO2

7. Thomas Jefferson generally thought the powers of the federal government should be narrowly construed and strictly limited.

  a.  True

  b.  False

ANSWER:   True

REFERENCES:   55

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   AGBR.WILS.12.3.2 – LO2

8. Chief Justice John Marshall was an early advocate of states’ rights.

  a.  True

  b.  False

ANSWER:   False

REFERENCES:   56

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   AGBR.WILS.12.3.2 – LO2

9. In McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Maryland could not tax a bank chartered by the national government.

  a.  True

  b.  False

ANSWER:   True

REFERENCES:   56

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   AGBR.WILS.12.3.2 – LO2

10. The doctrine of nullification allows states to declare null and void a federal law that violates the Constitution.

  a.  True

  b.  False

ANSWER:   True

REFERENCES:   57

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   AGBR.WILS.12.3.2 – LO2