In the text's "Using the Framework" feature, which political linkage do you think proved most influential in overcoming Southern resistance to political participation by African Americans before the Voting Rights Act of 1965? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, List the political linkages such as the votes of African Americans in states outside the South, civil rights demonstrations, changes in public opinion and a sympathetic mass media, and unions and businesses favoring voting rights legislation.
2, Indicate which linkage was likely most important. For example, changing public opinion was critical in overcoming resistance to the civil rights movement. Also critical was the moral power of the movement and leaders like Martin Luther King.
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The Texas Taxpayers and Research Association is primarily interested in helping to develop the state's overall fiscal policies
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Texas taxpayer dissatisfaction and anger in recent years has been mostly due to __________
a. an increase in grocery sales tax rates b. increases in ad valorem property taxes, particularly school taxes c. changes in business taxes d. the severance tax
The Constitution limits the power of government because the Founders viewed government as
a. a threat to freedom and liberty c. an archaic English concept. b. a tool of the elite. d. not very important.
_____ wrote in Federalist Paper No. 48 that ". . . It will not be denied, that power is of an encroaching nature, and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it. After discriminating therefore in theory, the several classes of power, as they may in their nature be legislative, executive, or judiciary; the next and most difficult task, is to provide some
practical security for each against the invasion of the others. What this security ought to be, is the great problem to be solved.". a. Thomas Jefferson b. James Madison c. Benjamin Franklin d. None of the above is true.