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46.

We need an intensified voter registration drive, a determined effort to integrate the public schools, lunch counters, public parks, theaters, etc.

- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1961

"These legislative and judicial victories did very little to improve the lot of millions of Negroes in the teeming ghettos of the North.... The issues which we confront are the hard core economic issues.

- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1966

In what fundamental way do the two quotes above show different understandings of the rights of citizens?

  1. In the first quote, rights are assumed to belong to individuals; in the second quote rights are assigned to groups.
  2. The first quote focuses on political and legal rights; the second quote focuses on economic rights and opportunities.
  3. The first quote focuses on the rights of people in rural areas; the second quote focuses on the rights of people in cities.
  4. The first quote defines rights as belonging to all humans; the second quote defines rights as belonging only to citizens.
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47.

Michigan governor John Engler is pursuing changes in welfare policy that are pleasing the Clinton administration more than his Republican allies on Capitol Hill. The Democrats' unlikely and somewhat unwilling hero announced an ambitious pilot project . . . that seeks to cut welfare costs by providing generous social services so that poor people can go to work. Democrats call his plan enlightened. Republicans have been caught off guard. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, . . . praised Mr. Engler for breaking with congressional Republicans by using child care and transportation subsidies and fashioning a more active role for social workers in an effort to turn welfare recipients into workers.

-The New York Times, January 22, 1996

What does the article show about American politics?

  1. There is wide support for continuing welfare services in their current form.
  2. The number of people receiving welfare services has increased markedly over recent years.
  3. Political parties are not ideologically unified, and people within parties may differ over issues like welfare reform.
  4. Democrats are thought to be more liberal than Republicans, but they are in fact more likely to champion the elimination of welfare services.
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48.

Michigan governor John Engler is pursuing changes in welfare policy that are pleasing the Clinton administration more than his Republican allies on Capitol Hill. The Democrats' unlikely and somewhat unwilling hero announced an ambitious pilot project . . . that seeks to cut welfare costs by providing generous social services so that poor people can go to work. Democrats call his plan enlightened. Republicans have been caught off guard. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, . . . praised Mr. Engler for breaking with congressional Republicans by using child care and transportation subsidies and fashioning a more active role for social workers in an effort to turn welfare recipients into workers.

- The New York Times, January 22, 1996

Many congressional Republicans might object to Engler's plan because it:

  1. involves increased government spending for transportation and child care
  2. is not aimed at getting people off welfare and back to work
  3. does not extend the social safety net far enough
  4. places the state government in competition with private companies for employees
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49.

Americans volunteer to work with a wide variety of nongovernmental organizations. Volunteers provide social services, work to clean the environment, and help to educate the young. But while many people view volunteerism as a "good" thing, they do not understand just how important volunteers are to the health of American democracy. Volunteerism both makes people better citizens, and helps restrain the growth of government in a way that protects the freedom of all.

What is one example of the type of volunteer work referred to in the statement above?

  1. The Environmental Protection Agency cleans up toxic waste dumps.
  2. A public school sponsors after-school programs for children whose parents work.
  3. A youth group holds a food drive to help poor people.
  4. Soldiers are sent to help put out forest fires threatening homes.
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50. What is one important way in which central political principles of the United States government have had a major effect on United States foreign policy?
  1. The United States has usually supported movements in foreign countries to give all citizens basic economic rights.
  2. The United States has played a leading role in the international
    environmental movement.
  3. The United States has supported the growth of Western-style democracy in countries that were once communist dictatorships.
  4. The United States has consistently encouraged its allies to develop federal systems of government.
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