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I have never had any formal education in Civics. Nothing I took in Community College was even close to Civics and I don't remember if anything even resembling this was taught to me in high school.

That being said, I am proud of my 81.82% score as this is a subject that I am quite uneducated on.

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The number of justices on the SCOTUS is not fixed in the Constitution, but is stipulated by statue which Congress can change. Roosevelt threatened to have congress add more justices.
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Foamy wrote:
I have never had any formal education in Civics. Nothing I took in Community College was even close to Civics and I don't remember if anything even resembling this was taught to me in high school.

That being said, I am proud of my 81.82% score as this is a subject that I am quite uneducated on.


Pretty much this for me too.

The closest I had to any "Civic's" class would have been high school 'Social Studies', which I completed somewhat successfully in 1979.

And no, I've never read The Scarlet Letter. Don't even know what it is...
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31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %
See what ten years of post-secondary education can do?!

I missed the one about how government responds to a recession (had clicked the correct answer, then went and changed it). And this one:
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If taxes equal government spending, then:
Your Answer: government debt is zero
Correct Answer: tax per person equals government spending per person on average
That makes my brain hurt, for some reason.

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Midgen wrote:
And no, I've never read The Scarlet Letter. Don't even know what it is...


The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This was required reading in both Jr. High, High School and one of my College English Courses.

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32/33 (96.97%)

Missed the one about how FDR responded to the SCOTUS ruling re: the New Deal. I thought he threatened impeachment (not that the president can initiate it) rather than appointment of agreeable judges. The latter doesn't seem like much of a threat since the opposing justices would first have to retire of their own volition....


FDR Threatened to increase the size of the court from nine to thirteen, and appoint 4 judges that would vote yes on his things.

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Aethien wrote:
31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %
See what ten years of post-secondary education can do?!

I missed the one about how government responds to a recession (had clicked the correct answer, then went and changed it). And this one:
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If taxes equal government spending, then:
Your Answer: government debt is zero
Correct Answer: tax per person equals government spending per person on average
That makes my brain hurt, for some reason.

Heh. Debt vs. deficit. If taxes equal spending, then deficit is zero. You may or may not have run up a debt in the past that's still outstanding, though.

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TheRiov wrote:
The number of justices on the SCOTUS is not fixed in the Constitution, but is stipulated by statue which Congress can change. Roosevelt threatened to have congress add more justices.


Do you think it is a good idea to have the Court's duties and relevance attached to the whims of the current executive's ability to pack the court? I forsee this quickly devolving into a senario in which we have a USSC comprised of hundereds of active justices, and is in no way a check and balance on the powers of the other two branches.

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I don't think anyone here thinks this is a good thing Rynar, myself included. I was not attempting to evaluate the various pros and cons of the historical fact.
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I don't think anyone here thinks this is a good thing Rynar, myself included. I was not attempting to evaluate the various pros and cons of the historical fact.


Fair.

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Missed 5. Basically all the economics questions. Not entirely unexpected. Any suggestions on rounding myself out?

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Question: Which of the following fiscal policy combinations has the federal government most often followed to stimulate economic activity when the economy is in a severe recession?
Your Answer: increasing both taxes and spending
Correct Answer: decreasing taxes and increasing spending

Question: If taxes equal government spending, then:
Your Answer: government debt is zero
Correct Answer: tax per person equals government spending per person on average

Question: International trade and specialization most often lead to which of the following?
Your Answer: a decrease in a nation’s economic growth in the long term
Correct Answer: an increase in a nation’s productivity

Question: A flood-control levee (or National Defense) is considered a public good because:
Your Answer: insurance companies cannot afford to replace all houses after a flood
Correct Answer: a resident can benefit from it without directly paying for it

Question: The Puritans:
Your Answer: opposed all wars on moral grounds
Correct Answer: stressed the sinfulness of all humanity

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For international trade, It's the myth of "buying American" for the good of the country, but trade isn't a zero-sum type deal. Trade is good. International trade can be more so for various reasons. Corporatism in the form of tariffs, that are supposed to "protect" American businesses, hinder international trade. Along with other other regulation in that vein, it's not as good for us as they think.

A more detailed explanation can be found in the international trade chapter of "Basic Economics."
http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-C ... 0465002609

For the Puritans, I think you might have them confused with the Quakers. Puritans were strictly no fun in their leanings and I think the English might have kicked them out for being too prudish. I remember hearing this quote somewhere...
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For them, pleasure seemed the devil’s snare. Their vision of the good life was austere, and they looked askance on the possibility that others might embrace hedonism. In H.L. Mencken’s famous characterization, Puritanism was “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Moreover, if the Puritans suspected that someone might be having fun, they had no compunction about using government coercion to knock some sense into the offender. Mencken might have had this proclivity in mind when he observed, “Show me a Puritan and I’ll show you a son-of-a-bitch.”

From a google search...
http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/puritani ... and-power/

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31 out of 33, oh well.

Bith of the ones I marked incorrectly I had right, then out-thought myself and changed the answers.

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I wonder how many of these questions we've gotten right due to personal reading and how much of it's is due to the discussions here on the Glade?

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