PAC Quiz 9-12

PAC Quiz 9-12 In his speech, Reagan argues that expanding government programs will do little to address problems like poverty. - ✔✔True Libertarians believe that government is good. - ✔✔False Rothbard, in For a New L ...

PAC Quiz 9-12 In his speech, Reagan argues that expanding government programs will do little to address problems like poverty. - ✔✔True Libertarians believe that government is good. - ✔✔False Rothbard, in For a New Liberty, thinks taxation is not morally different from private theft. - ✔✔True Ronald Reagan was a democrat before switching to the Republican party. - ✔✔True Wilson, as seen in Constitutional Government in America, believed that a changing society, world, and economy required a changing approach to government and politics. - ✔✔True Peace is the main theme of FDR's 1944 State of the Union. - ✔✔False Woodrow Wilson rejects the constitutional principle of government limited by checks and balances in favor of a greater role for the Executive branch. - ✔✔True Based on what he says in Constitutional Government in America, Woodrow Wilson would have believed that the Constitution should be interpreted as the Founder's meant it to be. - ✔✔False Roosevelt ("State of the Union Message...") sees rights in largely economic, as opposed to legal, terms. - ✔✔True Reagan emphasizes governmental solutions to the most significant problems that confront us. - ✔✔False Carl F.H. Henry believed that the reason why evangelicalism had not penetrated culture is because culture penetrated evangelicalism more. - ✔✔True Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America) argues that Americans use civic associations to accomplish goals they are unable to achieve individually. - ✔✔True Alexis de Tocqueville did not believe that the attachment and influence of religion on America was good. - ✔✔False The Declaration of Sentiments marked the beginning of the "first wave" of feminism. - ✔✔True David Wells said in The Courage to Be Protestant that with Postmodernism, the universe retains a moral center. - ✔✔False According to the National Organization for Women, the female's capacity to bear children has kept her from reaching social and economic equality. - ✔✔True Ron Sider argues in An Open Letter to This Generation that one of the most blatant markers of Christian failure today is the fact that evangelical Christians got divorced at the same rate as the rest of society. - ✔✔True Henry, in The Uneasy Conscience--45 Years Later, argued that Christian political influence was the best way to restore American culture. - ✔✔False Alexis de Tocqueville believed that liberty is more loved than equality in democratic nations. - ✔✔False Betty Friedan and NOW believed that women deserved to be equal with men in all aspects, including relationship roles. - ✔✔True Mill (On Liberty) thinks that even if one person holds a contrary opinion, the majority should not coerce that person to change their mind or suppress their freedom of speech. - ✔✔True In Lee v. Weisman, the Supreme Court determined that prayer in a public school graduation ceremony violates the U.S. Constitution's Establishment Clause. - ✔✔True Those who dissented on Obergefell v. Hodges felt that determining the legality of same-sex marriage was the duty of the Legislature, not the Supreme Court. - ✔✔True The Supreme Court determined that abortion falls under the right of personal privacy. - ✔✔True Roe v. Wade determined that abortion was still a crime no matter when during the pregnancy the procedure happened. - ✔✔False The Supreme Court in their decision on Lee v. Weisman claimed the act of the Rabbi praying before graduation was not coercive. - ✔✔False The Letter to the Danbury Baptists argued government should be tolerant of religious beliefs. - ✔✔True Jefferson ("Letter to the Danbury Baptists") thinks that government and religion must work together for the good of the country. - ✔✔False Due to the ruling in Texas v. Johnson, Americans are free to burn its flag in protest of the government. - ✔✔True According to Texas v. Johnson, free speech only applies to spoken and written text. - ✔✔False Justice Harlan, dissenting on Plessy v. Ferguson declared that the Constitution was intended to be "colorblind" regarding race of citizens. - ✔✔True The Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that the Founders did not intend to give any African-Americans citizenship. - ✔✔True Brown v. Board of Education overturned Plessy v. Ferguson within the educational setting. - ✔✔True The Supreme Court sided with Dred Scott in Dred Scott v. Sandford. - ✔✔False Brown v. Board of Education overturned the earlier case of Plessy v. Ferguson. - ✔✔True In Heart of Atlanta Motel, the Court determined that Congress does not have the power to prevent racial segregation in privately owned businesses. - ✔✔False The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the owner of the Heart of Atlanta Motel in its case Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States. - ✔✔False Justice Brown, in giving the court's opinion on Plessy v. Ferguson claimed that separate facilities for African-Americans should not cause African-Americans to feel inferior. - ✔✔True The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise in the Dred Scott case. - ✔✔False The decision in Brown v. Board of Education was divided - ✔✔False