Which answer best describes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
A. a large cabinet-level department with numerous local offices reporting to the president
B. a department of each state government that reports to the federal executive branch
C. the largest independent agency with strong regional offices reporting to the president
D. the largest entitlement program of the U.S. government regulated by the Congress
C. the largest independent agency with strong regional offices reporting to the president
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What justification grounded the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the separate but equal doctrine?
a. The Supreme Court did not have all of the facts when it adopted the separatebutequal doctrine. b. The quality of life for African Americans in the South had deteriorated considerably since the adoption of the separatebutequal doctrine. c. The Supreme Court needed to step in because the South had been unwilling to segregate educational facilities as required by Plessy v.Ferguson. d. Segregated schools stigmatize minority children and are inherently unequal.
Which of the following viewpoints is most consistent with elite political culture?
a. Running for office is viable and realistic. b. Voting is a waste of time. c. The political bureaucracy is impossible to navigate. d. Politicians are all lawyers who will say whatever they think you want to hear.
Since 1937, the U.S. Supreme Court has focused heavily on which of the following issue areas?
a. civil liberties and civil rights b. government regulation of business c. foreign policy d. relations between the states and the national government e. environmental policy
A comparison of health care costs in the United States with those of other industrialized nations would reveal what?
a. that the United States has lower health care costs because its people are healthier
b. that other industrialized nations have lower health care costs
c. that other industrialized nations have higher health care costs because their people are less healthy
d. that health care costs are less influenced by private insurance in the United States than in other industrialized nations