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Question 5 is also quite (intentionally) ambiguous: > The Constitution of the United States places the final authority in our Nation in the hands of... > a. t
by burkaman 2y ago
Question 5 is also quite (intentionally) ambiguous:
> The Constitution of the United States places the final authority in our Nation in the hands of...
> a. the national courts.
> b. the States.
> c. the people.
The answer key says c. is correct, but I think I would have answered a. You could also argue the States is correct, since they have the authority to amend the Constitution. The very concept of "final authority" is sort of antithetical to the Constitution.
- dragonwriter 2y agoThere is no ambiguity, (b) is unambiguously correct (more precisely, it puts it in that hands of State legislatures).
- burkaman 2y agoWhat about the Supremacy Clause? And aren't state legislatures elected by "the people"? You could argue about this forever.
- mrgoldenbrown 2y agoState legislatures are elected by the people nowadays yes. But is that required by the Constitution or just a modern convention? I honestly don't know, as a 45 yr old born and raised in the US college educated nerd. The trump administration shenanigans revealed a lot of things we all took for granted to be mere convention or tradition rather than legal requirements.
- burkaman 2y agoFair point, it's not just a modern convention but yes, I think in theory a state constitution could be changed to make the whole legislature appointed by the governor or chosen by lottery or whatever.
- ahazred8ta 2y agoArtIV.S4 "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government", meaning elected by the People.
- eadmund 2y agoIt would also be a republican form of government for the state legislatures to be elected by cities and/or counties.
- sieabahlpark 2y ago[dead]