According to Michael Gerson (and Robert Nisbet), "if we release human beings from the context of community, we are likely to get which of the following?
A. Demoniac fears and passions.
B. Sense of duty.
C. Sense of sacrifice.
D. Sense of civilization.
E. Freedom and rights
A. Demoniac fears and passions.
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Which of the following is true of the provisions and enforcement of the Open Meeting and Open Records law in Texas?
a. It curtails websites from publishing articles or images that could incite hate crimes. b. It prevents governmental information from being accessed by politicians. c. It disallows any unbiased news reports or coverage to air on national TV. d. It allows both individuals and interest groups access to almost all public documents in Texas.
In the war on racial discrimination, African American citizens of Montgomery, Alabama, refused to ride the city's buses for more than a year in the mid-1950s. This was an example of using __________ as a tactic to seek civil rights
A) strike B) work stoppage C) litigation D) legal boycott E) civil disobedience
In Adarand Constructors v. Peña, the Supreme Court determined that __________
a. affirmative action policies must be scrutinized using the same suspect standard that is used for other policies classifying people by race b. affirmative action policies are subject to an intermediate standard whereby they are presumed to be permissible c. affirmative action policies may be broadly tailored to accomplish a compelling government interest d. affirmative action policies must be designed to address past discrimination without taking into account race, ethnicity, religion, or creed –
Until 2009, the federal government planned to bury high-level nuclear waste, which retains its toxicity for hundreds of thousands of years, at an isolated spot 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas known as Yucca Mountain. Despite a campaign promise to halt Yucca Mountain, President Obama has gone forward with that project with the approval of Congress
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false