The _______________--literally, “produce the body”--is a legal document requiring that a prisoner be brought before a court to determine whether he or she is being lawfully held in jail.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
writ of habeas corpus
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What percentage of the families studied by the Survey Research Center lived below the poverty level for all nine years of the study?
A. fewer than five percent. B. 20 percent. C. 35 percent. D. more than 50 percent.
The procedure for the passage of legislation in Germany is generally which of the following?
a. It is introduced by the Bundestag, sent to committee in the Bundestag for deliberation, and then approved by the Bundesrat. b. It is introduced by the executive, voted on by the Bundestag, and then approved by the Bundesrat. c. It is introduced by the executive, voted on by the Bundesrat, and then approved by the Bundestag. d. It is introduced by the Bundestag, sent to committee in the Bundestag for deliberation, and then approved by the executive. e. It is introduced simultaneously in both the Bundesrat and Bundestag; sent to committee, in both houses, for deliberation, and then approved by the executive.
Which of the following strategies is typically employed by challengers in congressional races?
a. Invoking wedge issues b. Stressing partisan loyalty c. Sponsoring drives to increase voter turnout d. Underscoring longstanding partisan values
In terms of its early economic development, the United States had at least two advantages that other countries could not easily match. One of these was an enormous amount of cheap capital in the form of land that was taken from Native Americans. What was the other?
a. The wage of U.S. laborers was lower than their European counterparts. b. Britain provided much of the investment that financed the growth of U.S. industry. c. The terms of trade were beneficial to American exporters. d. New industrialized machinery was considerably more fuel efficient and less obsolete than Europeanmachinery stock.