How has the right to vote been expanded since the Constitution was written?
What will be an ideal response?
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Early polling on political candidates is important because
a. candidates who are ahead early in the polls go on to win. b. polling separates viable from nonviable nominees, affecting volunteers and donations. c. polling tells us what sort of campaign nominees are going to run. d. candidates join the race later and later to avoid poor early polling results that might give the media a bad impression.
What was the rationale for rejecting the claim that the federal government needed to abolish Jim Crow laws because they conflicted with the equal protection clause?
a. The federal government should not interfere in states' rights to determine their own equal protection laws and should not practice social engineering. b. The federal government should leave the decision up to each state because in some states Jim Crow laws were important for maintaining social order. c. Jim Crow laws helped African Americans achieve equality by building character through overcoming adversity, so to declare them a violation of equal protection would be counterproductive. d. The equal protection clause applied only to the actions of the federal government, so states were within their rights to enact Jim Crow laws.
Following the completion of the Republican takeover of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 1998, that court __________
a. began ruling more frequently in favor of prosecutors b. increased the rate at which it overturned death sentences c. expanded its jurisdiction to include civil cases involving claims of more than $1 million d. ruled that Texas's method of execution in death penalty cases must be changed from the electric chair to lethal injection
__________ is the component of bureaucracy that refers to the tendency of agencies to grow without regard to the benefits that their programs confer or the costs that they entail.
A. Conflict B. Duplication C. Waste D. Imperialism E. None of these are correct.