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Question: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that:
Your Answer: all moral and political truth is relative to one�s time and place
Correct Answer: certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason
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Question: The Puritans:
Your Answer: believed in complete religious freedom
Correct Answer: stressed the sinfulness of all humanity
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Question: In 1935 and 1936 the Supreme Court declared that important parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. President Roosevelt responded by threatening to:
Your Answer: override the Supreme Court�s decisions by gaining three-quarter majorities in both houses of Congress
Correct Answer: appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
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Question: What was the main issue in the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858?
Your Answer: Do Southern states have the constitutional right to leave the union?
Correct Answer: Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
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Question: What was the source of the following phrase: �Government of the people, by the people, for the people�?
Your Answer: Declaration of Independence
Correct Answer: Gettysburg Address
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Question: The phrase that in America there should be a �wall of separation� between church and state appears in:
Your Answer: the Constitution
Correct Answer: Thomas Jefferson�s letters.