When politicians strategically give important information to the news media on the condition that its source not be identified by name, this is referred to as a ______.
A. Watergate
B. trial balloon
C. leak
D. stopper
Answer: C
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The fact that the Constitution is short and ambiguous means that __________
a. its provisions are comprehensive b. the courts must interpret it to apply it c. there is little room for judicial interpretation d. it quickly became dated
The line-item veto:
A. allows the governor to veto specific parts of a bill while letting the rest of the bill become law. B. requires the governor to veto the entire bill in order to kill any objectionable items in it. C. enables the governor to return the bill to the legislature with recommendations for changing specific items before the bill becomes law. D. none of the above
In a landmark piece of legislation, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, Congress required that government agencies issue an environmental impact statement listing the effects that proposed agency regulations would have on the environment
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
To address poverty in the United States, the government has used income transfers, which
A) require services to be rendered by the recipients in return for income. B) are methods of transferring income from the relatively well-off to the relatively poor. C) prevent the poor from escaping their low-income status. D) put a portion of a person's paycheck immediately into savings. E) have eliminated mass poverty in most regions of the country.