Liberty and Tyranny Quiz

  1. Levin describes Conservatism as “a way of understanding _____________, _____________, and ______________.”
  2. The Founders of the US were heavily influenced by _______________ _______________    ______________  
  3. Burke, an early defender of the American Revolution wrote of the interconnection of ______, _____, _____, _______, and ___________.
  4. The Declaration of Independence represents the most prominent, official, _____________ position of the Founders’ __________ for declaring independence from England.
  5. Levin states that “Like the Founders, the Conservative also recognizes in society a ___________ of   .. characterized as _________ liberty, the _____________  ___________________, or the _____________   _______________.
  6. Name fifteen conditions of the civil society: _______________________________________________________________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. According to Levin, “the Modern Liberal believes in the __________ of the _________”.
  2. Levin asserts, “Modern Liberalism promotes what French historian Alexis de Tocqueville described as a “_______________ ________________”.
  3. Levin believes it is more accurate to characterize the Modern Liberal as a ________________ rather than a liberal.
  4. The Founders understand that the greatest threat to liberty is an all-powerful _________
  5. The Articles of Confederation were replaced by the ____________________________.
  6. James Madison wrote in the Federalist 51, “you must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place oblige it to ______________________
  7. For much of American history, … Federal power was confined to that which was specifically enumerated in the ______________ and no more. And that power was further limited, for it was dispersed among three federal branches – the _________________, ______________, and ___________________.
  8. Beyond that, the power remained with the __________________ and ultimately the ____________________.
  9. What is required to propose an amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification? ______________________________
  10. What is required to ratify an amendment to the Constitution?
  11. What did the Statists do in the 1930s to radically and fundamentally alter the nature of American society? ___________ ___________________  ____________________  ____________________   = the New Deal.
  12. What prolonged the Great Depression?
  13. What is the significance of the New Deal? Answer: Its sweeping _____________ from our  ____________  _______________ and constitutional 
  14. How does Levin describe the federal government after the New Deal (that is, Roosevelt’s legacy)? Answer” It became a ___________ ________________ conglomerate. It is the nation’s largest _________________, ______________, _____________, _____________, _____________, _________________, ______________, _____________ owner, _____________, _______ __________   ______________, and pension _____________.
  15. The Statist with his “appetite for control” is “constantly agitating for government action. And in furtherance of that purpose, the statist speaks in the tongue of the ____________________, concocting one pretext and ___________ after another to -__?__ (Fill in the remainder by writing the rest of the text to the end of the paragraph from Levin’s book, page 8,  where Levin states, “In truth, both are made victims by the real perpetrator, the Statist.”).
  16. What qualities does the individual display that are antithetical to the Statist’s? __________, _____- ___________, and __________.
  17. What two methods does the Statist employ to drain the individual of this uniqueness and self-worth and to deter him from independent thought or behavior? _______________ ______________ and _____________ 
  18. Why is Conservatism the antidote to tyranny? Answer” Because its __________________ are the founding ________________.
  19. In Chapter 2, Levin relates, “the Founders recognized the dangers of ______________________change as it relates to governing.
  20. The Conservative is alarmed by the Statist’s growing success in substituting arbitrary ____________ ________ for ordered liberty.
  21. For Burke, change as reform was intended to preserve and improve the basic ______________ of the state.
  22. For Burke, proposed change must be informed by the ________________, _______________, and __________________ of society.
  23. What happens when change is unconstrained by wisdom? ____________________________________________________________.
  24. The Statists reject the Founders’ idea of the dignity of the individual, who can flourish through ordered liberty, for one rooted in __________________, _______________________ and ultimately, _________________________.
  25. For the Statist, it is through __________________, ___________________, and _________________ that the individual must be subordinated to the state.
  26. What did President Barack Obama say that Levin characterizes as “a deviant view” and “a powerful tool against humanity’? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
  27. For the Statist, the international community and international organizations serve as useful sources for importing disaffection with the civil society. The Statist urges Americans to view themselves through the lenses of those who __________ and even _______ us.
  28. The Statist wants Americans to see themselves as backward, foolishly holding to their quaint notions of ___________ ___________, private ______________, ___________, and __________________.
  29. The Statists want American to surrender its ___________________________ through treaties and other arrangements that benefit the greater “humanity.”
  30. The Statist must rely on legions of _____________________________ to serve as his missionaries.
  31. After a short period of training and observation, the academics receive a ____________________________ — a personal  stake in the state via lifetime employment through a system of tenure.
  32. The classroom is turned into a ___________________ mill, rather than a place of education.
  33. Academics claim to challenge authority but, in truth, preach __________________________________ through various justifications for approaches to deconstructing the civil society.
  34. They talk of individual rights but promote _________________________________________>
  35. The actor finds anonymity in the larger fraternity that is Hollywood and relevance in its causes—Marxism in the 1940s to ________________________ ______________________ today.
  36. The Statist is also assisted by the ________________.
  37. They (the media) gather information produced by the Statist and ____________________________ it for the masses.
  38. The Statists hope to use the __________________ Doctrine to silent those pockets of independence that challenge them.
  39. This doctrine would circumscribe the content of _________________________ on talk radio.
  40. The media decry alternative information outlets on the _______________, which do not vet their content through the media’s editors.
  41. The Statist’s enemies are the media’s enemies, as reflected by their hostility to _________ and private ______________.
  42. S. Lewis wrote, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its ________________ may be the most oppressive.
  43. Science cannot address the ____________________ ______________ of man.
  44. Edmund Burke argued that each individual is created as a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience and is bound to a transcendent moral order, established by _______________________   
  45. It is the______________ _______  that penetrates man’s being and which the  Founding Fathers adopted as the principle around which civilized American society would be organized.
  46. The Declaration of Independence states that “We hold these truths to  be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain ______________________ Rights, that among these are Life,  _____________, and the _________________ of Happiness.”
  47. If it is possible that there is no Natural Law and man can know moral order and unalienable rights from his own reasoning, unaided by the supernatural or God, this position would, it seems, lead man to arbitrarily create his own _______________ and rights.
  48. Right and wrong, good and bad would be ______________________ concepts susceptible to circumstantial applications.
  49. The abandonment of Natural Law is the adoption of ________________ in one form or another, because there is no humane or benevolent alternative to Natural Law.
  50. Te Declaration of Independence was a declaration of political and ______________ liberty.
  51. For the Statist, however, the Declaration is an ______________________ to his ________________.
  52. The Statist believes that rights are not “unalienable rights” bestowed on all individuals by “their Creator”; instead, the Statist believes that rights are to be _______________ by the state—conferred on those whom the Statist believes deserving of them, and denied to those whom the Statist believes undeserving of them.
  53. The Statist acknowledges only the law which he himself set in place, and which is subject to change or ________________ application on his say-so.
  54. Recent history has shown him [the Statist] to be unenlightened in his understanding of mankind, ___________ order, ___________ and ________________.
  55. Statists have launched bloody revolutions followed by violent periods of terror in France, Russia, Germany, and China, and elsewhere, always under the flags of democratic populism, Marxism, national socialism, and fascism. The Statist calls this many things, including “________________.” For the rest, it is tyranny.
  56. Passive expressions of religious liberty, which represent a community’s dominant religion or religious denomination, must, according to the Secularist and the Court , be ____________________.
  57. The ____________________of __________________ is at opposite with the Secularist.
  58. For the Conservative, as it was for Burke and the Founders, faith is not a threat to civil society but rather vital to its _________.
  59. Faith encourages the individual to personally adhere to a dogma that promotes __________________, _________________ and moral______________________.
  60. The Conservative is an __________________, for he believes that much like a contract, the Constitution sets forth certain terms and conditions for governing that hold the same meaning today as they did yesterday and should tomorrow.
  61. If the Constitution’s meaning can be erased or rewritten, and the Framers’ intentions ignored, it ceases to be a constitution but is instead a _____________________ of ______________________ ______________________ that serve the contemporary policy agendas of the few who are entrusted with public authority to preserve it.
  62. To say that the Constitution is a “living and breathing document” is to give license to __________ and ___________activism.
  63. The Statist is not interested in what the Framers said or intended. He is interested only in what ____ says and _____
  64. The _________________ has seized for itself the most dominant role in ________________ the Constitution.
  65. The Statist on the [Supreme] Court tolerates representative government only to the extent that its decisions reinforce ___ ____. Otherwise, he overrules it.
  66. The Statist uses false promises of utopianism to justify all trespasses on the individual’s private ___________.
  67. If the individual cannot keep or dispose of the value he creates by his own ___________ and/or _________ labor, he exists to serve the state.
  68. Cass Sunstein asserts that government authority should be used to better _____________ and _____________________ wealth.
  69. The late William F. Buckley, Jr. said, “I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the _____________ of Harvard University.”
  70. The “realists” are an arrogant lot who reject the nation’s founding ______________.
  71. They urge that the Constitution be interpreted as compelling the government to enforce “positive rights” [and] The “realists plot to transform the civil society through the _______________–without the consent of the people and without regard to the Constitution.
  72. The judiciary today behaves in the manner of an ongoing constitutional convention, unilaterally amending the Constitution almost at will. A majority of Supreme Court justices have, on occasion, even justified the use of ______________ law in interpreting the Constitution.
  73. Levine asserts, “The application of customs, traditions, and values that attach to foreign cultures and laws provides ____ __________________   _____________ into America’s Constitution…”.
  74. The purpose of the new “federal” system was to limit _____________ power and separate that power among three competing branches.
  75. When the federal government acts beyond its constitutional limits, it assaults the purest form of ______________ government.
  76. Change unconstrained by ___________________ produces unpredictable consequences, threatening ordered liberty with chaos and ultimately _____________________________.
  77. _________________________is perhaps the most important aspect of federalism.
  78. The Agricultural Adjustment Act swept away 150 years of ______________________ jurisprudence, de-centralized governmental ________________________, and private property ________________ 
  79. The Statist constructed a Fourth Branch of government—an enormous ___________________
  80. All branches of the federal government, elected and unelected, have consumed more and more of the __________ __________ of states and localities, leaving them less room to exercise their discretion.
  81. The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of ___________ that also underlie the civil society.
  82. The free market promotes _______________, _____________, _______________ , and honest ___________ which enhance the individual, the family, and the community.
  83. The free market discriminates against no race, religion, or _______________________.
  84. The key to understanding the free market is __________________ ____________________ .
  85. Private property is the material value created from the individual, which may take the form of ______________, real property, or ___________________ property.
  86. __________________ of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its ____________  can become in effect a form  of _____________, particularly if the dispossession results from ____________ and _____________ state action.
  87. The Conservative believes that the federal government should raise revenue only to fund those activities that the _____________ authorizes and ___  
  88. The Conservative believes that the free market is a vital bulwark against __________________.
  89. In the name of “economic justice” and “equality” the Statist creates the perception of ___________ _______________ through a variety of inventions, including the “progressive” income _____ .
  90. While the Conservative, like Adam Smith, does object to wealthier individuals paying more to finance the legitimate functions of government, the government has grown well beyond the _________________ placed on it by the Constitution.
  91. Redistributing ___________  is the central object of the progressive income tax….
  92. For the Statist, there must be a ______ ________ and it must be a never-ending struggle, for it is his most valuable weapon in his war against the individual, the free market, and ultimately the civil society.
  93. [The Conservative] … should emphasize that the free market is the only ___________ system that produces on a sustainable basis.
  94. [The] individual know better how to make and spend that which he has earned from his own labor and provide for his family than do large _____________________________.
  95. For the Statist, however, thievery by government is a virtue in that it is said to be compelled for the “_____________ ___________” or in the “________________ _______________”.
  96. The provides the parameters within which the federal government has authority to act.
  97. [The Statist] has built an enormous maze of government agencies and programs, which grow inexorably from year to year, and which _____________________ in and ____________________ with the free market.
  98. The government does not add __________ to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing ____________ to another.
  99. The best way to stimulate the economy would be for the federal government to __________ capital gains taxes, corporate income taxes, and individual income taxes….
  100. Entitlement programs tend to be intergenerational swindles that threaten the well-being of future generations with massive ____________ obligations incurred from benefits received by today’s generation.
  101. In the United States, the concept of “social insurance” can be traced back to… the work of Columbia University professor ___________ _________________  
  102. Seager’s advocacy for “an aggressive program of governmental control and regulation” was a radical departure from the nation’s ________________ __________________________  and  _________________________ system.
  103. Social Security marked one of the earliest and most tangible breaks from the American _______________ and _________________________ traditions.
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