Good
public
______ taxes are another term for excise taxes.
Sin
State constitutions tend to be ______ than the U.S. Constitution.
much longer
The Electoral College gives a minimum of ______ votes to each state, regardless of population
three
Turnout tends to an increase for ______ elections.
competitive
One of the advantages of federalism identified in the text is that it ______ between state and federal governments.
reduces conflict
A majority of states issue a severance tax when ______ are removed from their state.
natural resources
If you were to vote for all of one party’s candidates on a ballot, you would be partaking in ______.
straight ticket voting
Popular sentiment in 1787 ______ a unitary government.
did not support
_____ governments are responsible primarily for law enforcement and fire protection.
Local
______ like sales taxes because they tend to be less visible to constituents than taxes on income are.
Politicians
According to the text, which of the following tends to decrease voter turnout?
strict ID laws
In the first generation of state constitutions, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Vermont opted for a ______ legislature which was the exception to the trend among most states at the time.
unicameral
Which state laws harshly limited African Americans’ ability to vote and to participate in all aspects of society?
Jim Crow Laws
Marriages performed in one state are recognized by other states. This is because of the obligation of states listed in the ______ clause.
full faith and credit
Which U.S. Constitutional amendment gives state governments plenary power?
Tenth Amendment
According to Elazar, people’s ______ backgrounds played the dominant role in establishing political cultures.
religious and ethnic
______ powers are those granted to the national government but not denied to the states.
Concurrent
The use of elections to select the holders of public office is the fundamental process of ______.
representative democracies
Which document states that the Constitution is the “Supreme Law of the Land?"
the Supremacy Clause
Sociodemographics refers to the way that states differ with regard to ______.
size, age, and ethnicity
The Supreme Court upheld Ohio’s voter ______.
purging system, which drops voters if they haven’t voted in the past 8 years
According to John Adams, unicameral legislatures and doing away with governors altogether would violate the precautionary principle of ______.
separation of powers
The documents giving individuals or corporations the right to establish “plantations” over certain areas and govern colonial inhabitants were called ______.
charters
Which of the following statements pertaining to John Adams and the Continental Congress is true?
He feared that the Continental Congress would create governments dominated by powerful unicameral legislatures.