Deck 1: Introduction: the Democratic Debate

Question 1

_____ are small groups of people who possess extraordinary amounts of power.

A)Elites
B)Democrats
C)Republicans
D)None of the above

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Two sets of actors were present politically at the founding of this country.Name them and explain what their fundamental differences were.

Answer 2

Students' answers may vary.

Question 3

The supporters of the Constitution in the late 1780s were known as _____.

A)Whigs
B)Tories
C)Anti-federalists
D)Federalists

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Define democracy as it was understood by the small city-states of Greece.American democracy tends to be made up of two competing understandings of what democracy is.Explain each type of democracy.

Question 5

Which of the following documents represent popular democracy?

A)Declaration of Independence
B)Bill of Rights
C)Twenty-sixth Amendment
D)All of the above

Question 6

Who were the Federalists?

Question 7

What is a popular democracy?

Question 8

The authors of this textbook believe that the ____ interpretation of democracy is correct.

A)elite
B)popular
C)direct
D)epistemological

Question 9

What is an elite democracy?

Question 10

What is a direct democracy?

Question 11

Elite democrats do not derive their power from _____.

A)birth
B)knowledge
C)expertise
D)experience

Question 12

The word democracy comes from the Greek words _____ and _____.

A)kyrie, eleison
B)demos, kratein
C)kyrie, kratein
D)demos, eleison

Question 13

Explain the "Spirit of '76." What major founding documents embody this spirit? Explain how, over time, more and more amendments were added to the constitution that allowed this spirit to flourish.

Question 14

Which of the following is a political system in which elites acquire the power to decide by a free and fair competition for the people's votes?

A)Direct democracy
B)Popular democracy
C)Elite democracy
D)All of the above

Question 15

Who were the Anti-federalists?