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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 1, Chapter 14-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When can a judge refuse to enforce a law?
(a) When the law in unconstitutional.
(b) When they do not agree with the law.
(c) When the people they are representing do not like the law.
(d) When they do not like the law.

2. Aristocratic regimes in Europe put the wealth into the hands of whom?
(a) The ennobled.
(b) The monarch.
(c) The few.
(d) The many.

3. De Tocqueville characterizes the relationship between politics and religion as what?
(a) Opposites who do not need each other.
(b) Similar ideas that can be incorporated together.
(c) Opposites who need each other.
(d) Similar ideas, and so they must be kept separate.

4. In times of peace, what has more power than the President?
(a) Judiciary.
(b) Senate.
(c) Executive branch.
(d) Legislature.

5. The balancing act that the three branches of government perform on each other is referred to as what?
(a) Federalism.
(b) Opposing powers.
(c) Checks and balances.
(d) Freedom from tyranny.

Short Answer Questions

1. In de Tocqueville's observations, what is something the federal government is allowed to do?

2. Who gets the powers not enumerated to the federal government?

3. De Tocqueville believes that there must be complete freedom of what?

4. In a monarchy, what is as volatile as the perceived superiority of the state?

5. What year was de Tocqueville's voyage to the United States?

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