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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 1: Chapter 1-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an essential tool for maintaining liberty?
(a) Freedom of the press.
(b) Freedom of religion.
(c) Protection of the First Amendment.
(d) Protection of the press.

2. De Tocqueville believes that democracy provides an authority of its own by replacing the certitudes of the intellectual with what?
(a) The certitudes of the political elite.
(b) The certitudes of the conservatives.
(c) The certitudes of the majority.
(d) The certitudes of the center.

3. Who gets the powers not enumerated to the federal government?
(a) The judiciary.
(b) The people.
(c) The townships.
(d) The states.

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

5. Compared to an aristocratic government ruled by an elite administration, democracy allows for what?
(a) More powerful governance.
(b) Weaker governance.
(c) Concentration of power.
(d) Concentration of wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of the generally accepted principle of equality among Americans, according to de Tocqueville they are less likely to accept what?

2. What kind of regime did the people of France and England live in?

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

4. What does de Tocqueville observe that the principle of equality has created an extraordinary sense of in the American people?

5. What does de Tocqueville say religion participates in keeping the social effects of on a leash?

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