One of the ritualized spectacles implemented as a desperate attempt to cling to the racial order upset by the Civil War was __________
a. castration
b. bull fighting
c. lynchings
d. boxing
ANS: C
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which famous Supreme Court case established the doctrine of implied powers?
A) Gibbons v. Ogden B) Sweat v. Painter C) Marbury v. Madison D) McCulloch v. Maryland E) Plessy v. Ferguson
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. All majoritarian systems require the winning candidates or parties to obtain a majority of the votes. 2. Single-member district plurality systems are expensive to administer. 3. Single nontransferable vote system increases the likelihood that extremists will be elected, potentially destabilizing the political system in the process. 4. Where the major parties frequently attempt to negotiate deals with smaller parties for their second preferences prior to an election in a process known as “preference swapping.”
In the case of Gibbons v. Ogden
A. the national government lost the power to regulate intrastate commerce. B. state governments won the right to control navigation in interstate waters. C. the power to regulate interstate commerce was determined to be an exclusive national power of the federal government. D. the ruling provided the national government with decreasing power over economic affairs throughout the land. E. the Supreme Court found that commerce was defined as the exchange of goods and not navigation or transport of people.