What Lessons About Public Opinion Can We Draw from the Federalist

question 1

Multiple Choice

What lessons about public opinion can we draw from The Federalist Papers?

• A) Public opinion can easily be swayed by skillful arguments.
• B) American public opinion from the beginning has been treated as a political force to alternatively be shaped, mollified, or exploited.
• C) During the earliest days of the republic, political elites paid little attention to public preferences since most of the nation was illiterate.
• D) Public opinion has only played a role in American politics since the advent of scientific polling methods in the twentieth century.

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