One of the primary objectives of this document was to sever the political relationship between the 13 colonies and the English crown.

Please respond to these in 7+ substantive sentences. Your answers should reflect your own thinking about the materials as they were presented in this class (text, lectures, readings, etc.), and should NOT rely on other, outside sources. So, please don’t cheat. Why does the single-member district system of elections tend to promote a two-party system? In your answer, briefly discuss any benefits that this system can bring about when compared to elections that are based on proportional representation. 

In the context of the Media, the term “framing” is used to describe:

Recent habits of news consumption have helped create a situation wherein “fake news” is increasingly easy to be spread.

One of the more popular lines from The Federalist Papers is that “ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”  To what does this line most directly refer?

The concept of “the rule of law” refers to:

One reason that affirmative action is so controversial is that:

The 1973 War Powers Resolution has provided an effective check against Presidential war making.

Fiscal policy is a mechanism the government employs to influence the economy. Fiscal policy is based on which of the following concepts/principles?

A blending of state and national authority is associated with________ federalism, while a clear separation of national and state authority is associated with________ federalism.