What is the Citizens United decision and how has it impacted the financing of political campaigns?

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary.

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Unlike liberalism, conservatism is a relatively monolithic and unchanging ideology

a. true b. false

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When Justice Scalia died in 2016, what was the initial response by high-ranking Republican senators that would be involved in the confirmation process of a new justice? 

A. to proclaim that Senate Republicans would filibuster any Obama nominee that year B. to call on President Obama to nominate a justice that would be acceptable to both parties C. to proclaim that the Senate would either not confirm or not give a hearing to any Obama nominee that year D. to make a vague promise that they would give any Obama nominee a fair confirmation hearing E. to lament that the next justice confirmed to the Supreme Court would not be as conservative as the one who had just passed

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All of the following are authorities explicitly granted to the states by the U.S. Constitution EXCEPT

A. redrawing House districts after congressional reapportionment. B. conducting national elections. C. determining the process of selecting electors for the Electoral College. D. conducting local elections. E. ratifying amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

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The exclusionary rule is a policy that

A. forbids the admission of illegally seized evidence at trial. B. prohibits the arresting officer from serving as a character witness at a hearing or trial. C. prohibits the detention of a suspect for more than forty-eight hours without the suspect being charged. D. is limited to the federal courts. E. None of these choices is true.

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