SocialStudies

Governments collect taxes to ensure that there is sufficient money-to fund private businesses. citizens contribute to meeting society's needs. politicians get paid in a timely manner. a government program exists for every need that arises.

Which of the following is an unintended consequence of the rise of the primary and caucus system? a. Sometimes candidates unpopular with the party leadership reach the top. b. Campaigns have become shorter and more expensive. c. The conventions have become more powerful than the voters. d. Often incumbent presidents will fail to be renominated by the party.

Why did many Americans criticize the Troubled Asset Relief Program? It did not provide aid to the automotive industry. It helped those who had caused the economic crisis. It caused several financial institutions to fail. It did not help anyone except home owners.

Which step is used to begin interpreting the art? Form an Opinion Make Associations See and Describe Think and Assess

Medicare is funded through the Social Security System. True False

The World Trade Organization was established by the United States to advocate strategic trade policy. false true

Which is a key benefit of spotting and avoiding fallacies? Select an answer: winning more arguments separating fact from fiction knowing who to support having more influence

Interests groups rarely clash because most people want the same thing and have the same interests. True False

On what types of policy issues do you expect the judicial branch to be especially powerful,and on which do you expect it to exert less power?

Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato. But is war an art so easily acquired that a man may be a warrior who is also a husbandman, or shoemaker, or other artisan; although no one in the world would be a good dice or draught player who merely took up the game as a recreation and had not from his earliest years devoted himself to this and nothing else?No tools will make a man a skilled workman , or master of defence, nor be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them , and has never bestowed any attention upon them. How does the speaker use reasoning in this excerpt? He uses inductive reasoning to arrive at a broad conclusion about the art of war. He uses deductive reasoning to reach a specific conclusion about the role of warriors in society. He uses inductive reasoning to make specific observations about commitment to art. He uses deductive reasoning to arrive at a specific conclusion about the training required to learn a skill.