POLITICAL SCIENCE 1101
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
SAMPLE EXAM
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Answer only the number of questions indicated. If you answer more than that, I’ll grade the
first answers I come to and I won’t count the rest.
SAMPLE
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Tell me everything that you think is reasonably related to the question that I ask. You lose
credit for leaving out relevant information, for including irrelevant information, and for
including wrong information.
· Write legibly. If I can’t read it, I can’t grade it and you can’t get credit for it. Good grammar
and spelling aren’t required as long as I can understand the answer.
· The Student Code of Conduct is in force.
· I’ll take up the papers at the end of the class period.
I. Answer one of the following questions. (This answer counts 60% of the mid-term exam
grade.)
a.) Differentiate democracy from other forms of government, and identify conditions
conducive to a successful democracy.
b.) The original Constitution (excluding the Bill of Rights) contains two major devices
that seek to ensure that the national government 1) has sufficient power to govern
effectively 2) while at the same time does not have enough power to endanger citizens'
liberties. Write a comprehensive analysis of one, and only one, of these two devices (your
choice which).
EXAM
II. Identify, describe, and tell the importance of four of the following. (Each answer counts
10% of the mid-term exam grade.)
1. Direct Democracy
2. American Dream
3. Shays's Rebellion
4. The Full Faith and Credit Clause
5. The Twelfth Amendment
6. United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936)