Because they were often at war, ambitious European monarchs desperately needed

revenues. Some of them started calling assemblies of  

notables to levy taxes. In return for their “power of the purse,” these assemblies  

received a modest input into royal policies. Such were the beginnings of the  

_____.  

(TCO 5) Countries with limits on government have usually had feudal pasts,  

which suggests what about the dispersion of power?  

(TCO 5) In a parliamentary system, voters directly elect _____.  

(TCO 5) Because of the separation of powers inherent in a presidential system,  

some scholars think that executive-legislative _____ is common in systems like  

that used in the United States.  

(TCO 5) The head of ministry is equivalent to the _____ in the United States.  

(TCO 5) Distinguish the process that a parliamentary system uses to oust a chief  

executive from the one available in the U.S. presidential system.  

(TCO 4) Which of the following issues is a civil concern?  

(TCO 4) International law consists of _____ and established customs recognized  

by most nations.  

(TCO 4) What legal agency in the United States generates reputation-based  

ratings of prospective federal judges?  

(TCO 4) Which of the following was an argument against granting the U.S.  

Supreme Court the power of judicial review?  

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POLI 330 Week 5 TCO Assessment (Devry)  

(TCO 4) What are your initial, nonlegal, thoughts on this case? How would you  

decide it based on your own belief structures? For example, if you were the judge  

in this case, would you would allow Mr. Trident to leave the hospital, thus bringing  

about his death? Or would you feel for Mr. Trident but side with the hospital  

because he clearly is not in the right mind to make such decisions for himself? Or  

would you perhaps side with the hospital because people should not be allowed  

to refuse medical treatment or go to the extreme of ordering the hospital to aid in  

the shortening of his life so that he did not have to suffer a painful death? What  

would you do? Please put some thought into your answer and provide at least 4– 

5 sentences as you explain it.  

(TCO 4) What is the difference between moral and legal reasoning?  

(TCO 4) In a true legal argument, should legal reasoning or moral reasoning be  

used?  

(TCO 4) Mr. Trident is arguing that the hospital has violated his 14th Amendment  

right to due process. What part of the 14th Amendment is he referring to in his  

argument?  

(TCO 4)  

Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health 

 is a case studied in  

the right-to-die debate. What precedent did it help to establish?  

(TCO 4) How does the Cruzan case factor into Mr. Trident’s argument?  

 

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