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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. What deals with the affairs of the people and is bound to be turbulent and uncertain?
(a) Politics.
(b) Religion.
(c) Society.
(d) Community.

2. After what event was the sovereignty of the people codified in law?
(a) Declaration of Independence.
(b) American Revolution.
(c) Boston Tea Party.
(d) Civil War.

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

4. According to de Tocqueville, in America men obey what?
(a) God.
(b) Divine authority.
(c) Justice and laws.
(d) Secular authority.

5. De Tocqueville believes that there must be complete freedom of what?
(a) Speech, religion, and press.
(b) Speech and press.
(c) Press and religion.
(d) Speech and religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to de Tocqueville, equality can enable what?

2. By excluding minorities from power, what does de Tocqueville believe will happen?

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

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

5. Compared to the European system, de Tocqueville says the America court system is what?

(see the answer key)

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