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Dred Scott v. Sandford(1857) ________.
 
  a. invalidatedtheMissouriComprom ise
  b. upheld the Wilmot Proviso
  c. declared the one man, one vote rule
  d. challenged the right to own slaves
  e. establishedschool segregation

Question -2-

________ is considered to be the most influential Chief Justice in history.
 
  a. WilliamRehnquist
  b. Warren Burger
  c. Earl Warren
  d. John Marshall
  e. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Question -3-

Which of the following persons was the only political scientist to become president?
 
  a. Woodrow Wilson
  b. Bill Clinton
  c. Ronald Reagan
  d. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  e. George Bush

Question -4-

________ is the principle that the U.S. laws and Constitution are the supreme law of the land and state laws that are in conflict with federal laws cannot stand.
 
  a. National supremacy
  b. Judicial activism
  c. Judicial review
  d. Senatorial courtesy
  e. Final authority

Question -5-

Which United States' president stated: The flow of ideas, the capacity to make informed choices, the ability to criticize, all of the assumptions on which political democracy rests, depend largely on communications?
 
  a. Theodore Roosevelt
  b. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  c. Harry Truman
  d. Dwight Eisenhower
  e. John Kennedy

Question -6-

Gridlock is a condition in which major government initiatives are impossible because a closely balanced partisan division in the government structure, accompanied by an unwillingness to work together toward compromise, produces a stalemate.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

(Ans. #1)

A

(Ans. #2)

D

(Ans. #3)

A

(Ans. #4)

A

(Ans. #5)

e

(Ans. #6)

TRUE

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