Institutions
a. work for the welfare of everyone in society.
b. are supported by the powerful.
c. are voted on by the people.
d. are new and modern.
Question 2One of the most undemocratic features of the U.S. political system is________.
a. how representatives get re-elected
b. the politicization of the Supreme Court
c. how campaigns are financed
d. the amount of time spent in jail by people who cannot afford bail
Question 3Robert Hutchins argues that domestic policy is conducted according to one infallible rule: the costs and burdens of whatever is done must be borne by ________.
a. those most able to bear them
b. those least able to bear them
c. the middle class
d. the majority
Question 4The government's common solution for runaway inflation is to increase ________.
a. investments
b. government spending
c. unemployment
d. government subsidies
Question 5Deinstitutionalization means that
a. some institutions replace others.
b. the individual increasingly has no choice.
c. individual choice is expanded.
d. the old institutions are firmly entrenched.
Question 6The most important component of a democratic society is that________.
a. the representatives are responsive to the wishes of the people
b. when people vote, they use the secret ballot
c. people enjoy equal protection under the law
d. decisions are made to maximize the common good
Question 7The view of the Chinese immigrant included the idea that the individual worker was a threat to racial purity in the United States.
a. True
b. False
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