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AP U.S. History 1.1 Period 9: 1980-Present. The success of the Republican Party's fiscal policies in the 1980s and 1990s was accompanied by...what?
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In this AP U.S. History question figure out what the sentiment expressed in the passage relates most strongly to. AP U.S. History: Populism Drill 1, Problem 3
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Check out the excerpt.
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[ mumbles ]
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And the question:
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The sentiment expressed above relates most strongly to tension between... what...
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and what?
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Hmm. [ mumbles ]
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All right. Okay, so let's figure out the vibe of
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what this author is saying.
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Take that first sentence.
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"Unfortunately, the government has
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implemented measures that go light years beyond
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anything conceivably necessary to combat terrorism."
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Huh. Seems like he's a little twisted up about
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that PATRIOT Act, which gave the U.S. government
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sweeping powers to monitor individuals
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thought to have connections with terrorist threats.
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So let's see which answer best describes that push/pull.
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All right, does the sentiment in the excerpt
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relate most strongly to the tension between A -
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the federal government and the states' rights?
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Hmm. Well, the debate around national security
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sorta transcends arguments about federal versus states' rights,
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or the efficiency of the government, for that matter.
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So that knocks out A and B.
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Is the argument about the limits of government surveillance
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related to discussions of D -
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interventionism and isolationism?
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Hmm. Well we're talking about civil liberties here, and that's
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domestic policy, not foreign policy.
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So D is out of this particular world.
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Which means that the sentiment expressed in the excerpt
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most strongly relates to the tension between C -
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individual rights and collective security.
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Like what's the right of the individual versus the right of the
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country to remain free and look strong and all that.
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All right, since even before the founding of the country,
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there has been tension between individual rights
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and collective security.
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In the Bill of Rights, the founding fathers listed
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civil liberties that the government
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could not curtail even if it weakened the security
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of the nation as a whole.
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Talk about a security blanket.
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So C is the right answer.
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To the founding fathers,
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some things were more important than the nation's safety.
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Like wig maintenance.
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Yeah. You got any hairspray around here?
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Ugh. This thing itches just terribly.
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[ whistle ]
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