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

2. According to de Tocqueville, in Europe men obey what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Men.
(c) God.
(d) Laws.

3. Where were the first colonies established?
(a) Virginia.
(b) New England.
(c) New Haven.
(d) Delaware.

4. Judges are accountable to what?
(a) The people who appointed them.
(b) The laws they are representing.
(c) The people who elected them.
(d) The laws they make.

5. What feeds on ignorance, according to the Puritans' religious views?
(a) Democracy.
(b) The devil.
(c) Stupidity.
(d) Aristocracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of regime did de Tocqueville study in America?

2. In times of peace, what has more power than the President?

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

4. What is one of the branches of government?

5. When can a judge refuse to enforce a law?

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