As one of the framers of our Constitution, Alexander Hamilton was very vocal in his fear of “tyranny of the masses,” which he believed could lead to instability in governance. Hamilton’s answer to this challenge was
a. a republican form of government in which the public chooses leaders who run the government, rather than a direct democracy in which the public rules directly.
b. to limit the right to vote to a representative number of citizens.
c. to limit the number of political parties that were allowed to function in the political arena. d.
a single, unified political party in which the party leaders were actually the elected officials, thereby bringing consistency and continuity to governance.
e. a return to a monarchy as the form of government.
ANS: A
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a. manage to favor the ideological preferences of the President who appointed them. b. are unable to favor the ideological preferences of the President who appointed them because their opinions are constrained by the appeals court and the Supreme Court. c. are not required to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. d. are normally tapped to chair the subcommittee hearings for the House Judiciary Committee.