What do you know about South Carolina and state and local politics?

  1. Name the governor of your home state?

  2. Define federalism and give one advantage and one disadvantage of having this system.

  3. What level of government do citizens trust the most (national, state, or local)?

  4. What level(s) of government funds k-12 education (national, state, or local)?

  5. T/F? State constitutions were modeled after the US Constitution.

  6. T/F? State constitutions are much longer than the US Constitution.

  7. T/F? State constitutions can are limited in the rights they can grant by what are granted in the US Constitution.

  8. T/F? Because of the supremacy clause, states must accept grants from the national government.

  9. T/F? The average state constitution has been amended far more than the US Constitution. 

  10. To what level of government does the US Constitution give the primary responsibility to determine who can vote?

  11. What is an open primary and does SC have this kind of primary?

  12. What is the initiative and does this exist in SC?

  13. Why do states go through the reapportionment process every 10 years?

  14. T/F? While most state legislators were once white males and relatively wealthy, today most are minorities or females and just above average in income?

  15. T/F? States elect their governors in even non-presidentisal election years.

  16. Give an advantage and a disadvantage of term limits for legislators.

  17. How many members are in the SC State Senate?

  18. Name one of your state senators or house members.

  19. Besides the governor, what other executive branch officers are elected statewide in SC?

  20. Which branch is the most powerful in SC's state government?

  21. What is a "special purpose district?"

  22. What is annexation and how has that affected government in SC?

  23. What is "eminant domain" and what are its limits?

  24. From which of the following does SC get the most money for its annual budget? (income taxes, property taxes,  sales taxes, fees and fines, national grants, excise taxes, severance taxes)

  25. Name one important difference between county and municipal governments.

  26. What are mandates and give an example.

  27. T/F? A mayor in the council manager form of local government acts much like the president or governor at the national and state level.

  28. Give an argument for and against high salaries for state legislators.

  29. Nearly all cities in New England use the "town meeting" to decide important matters.

  30. T/F? The most unpopular form or taxes are sales taxes because we have to pay them all the time.