The Supreme Court has the power to
a. control the federal budget
b. vote to end a tie in the Senate
c. approve presidential appointments
d. interpret the Constitution
Answer: d. interpret the Constitution
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a. Finding sources written by women is unusual. b. She tells what a slave's life was like in the house of a Muslim caliph. c. She represents a small Muslim sect about which little is known. d. Much can be learned from her about life in a harem. e. Sparse history of the ordinary classes and of women is available to historians.
In 1947, the Truman administration responded to Republican attacks that it was weak on communism by
A. ignoring them. B. charging the Republicans with harboring communists within their own party. C. supporting passage of the McCarran Internal Security Act. D. beginning an investigation into the loyalty of federal employees. E. blaming lax security on the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Delegates to the Stamp Act Congress essentially agreed with the Virginia Resolutions that
A) American assemblies held final authority over legislative matters in America. B) Parliament held absolute sovereignty within the British empire. C) Parliamentary taxation violated colonists' rights and liberties. D) colonists were bound to obey only the laws passed by their own assemblies.
An analysis of various states' "grandfather clauses" shows that
A) they were not aimed at freed blacks. B) they were mainly aimed at recent immigrants. C) the Reconstruction period had ended and equality now existed. D) legal efforts were instituted to keep blacks from voting.