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- Hoover tried to help people keep their homes and farms during his administration by:
- state constitutions are easier to change than the united states constituion
- amendments 13-15 to the united states constitution followed the normal procedure for adding amendments
- the south had a large material advantage at the start of the civil war
- the american states did not have written constitutions at the time of the writing of the untied states constitution
- talk of secession did not become prevalent until right before the civil war
- the new deal was designed primarily to fix the great depression
- lincoln won a clear popular majority in the presidential election of 1860
- the american founders favored separation of politics and religion
- the legitimate use of force is best accomplished by private means
- the interstate commerce clause rarely has been used to justify congressional actions
- the united states constitution attempts to define a completely new political system from the ground up
- the founders expected the electoral college to make presidents dependent on congress
- legitimate governments tend to be short-lived
- the first colonial governments in america tended to be highly participatory democracies
- in federalist no. 10, madison specifies a strongly democratic constitutional theory
- the predictions of the writers of the federalist papers mostly came true
- in christendom, the theological virtues (faith, hope, love) were intended to replace the cardinal virtues (prudence, temperance, courage, justice)
- aristotle defined politics as the science of finding the best way for a group of non-blood related people to live together under a shared conception of the good human life
- most modern countries are polities, mixtures of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy