James Madison argued in Federalist Paper No. 51 that the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department was the
A) selection by the voters of men of good character and conscience who would resist the temptation to extend their power.
B) granting of the means and the motive to each branch of government to resist encroachment of others into their areas of authority.
C) establishment of a Bill of Rights that limited governmental power.
D) identification in the Constitution of each specific power that the branches of government would possess.
E) establishment of a single branch of government that would be clearly superior to the other branches, thus ensuring consistency and regularity.
Question -2-Because Clintons foreign policy was so rooted in the pursuit of national economic interests, some observers labeled it __________.
a. merchant diplomacy
b. international peacekeeping
c. Keynesian policy
d. antimilitary diplomacy
Question -3-Because the delegates wanted to prevent the imposition of tyranny, by either the majority or the minority, the government they proposed had
A) a guaranteed right to privacy.
B) an electoral college.
C) a separation of powers.
D) a supremacy doctrine.
E) a unicameral legislature.
Question -4-At the Constitutional Convention, the South insisted that
A) export taxes not be imposed.
B) incomes taxes never be imposed.
C) lower federal courts be created as well as a Supreme Court.
D) slavery be abolished.
E) the power to regulate interstate commerce belong to Congress.
Question -5-The Three-Fifths Compromise gets its name from the resolution that
A) slaves would be counted as three-fifths of a person, in determining representation in the House of Representatives.
B) slave owners would be credited at three-fifths for each slave that they owned on their taxes.
C) northern states that did not count slaves as part of their population would receive three additional seats in the Senate and five extra seats in the House of Representatives.
D) southern states that did not count slaves as part of their population would receive three additional seats in the Senate and five extra seats in the House of Representatives.
E) after three years the importation of slaves would be prohibited and after five years slavery would be abolished.
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