Concerned by the overcrowding in prisons, federal judges issued orders in the 1990s calling for either immediate improvement or the release of people being held in conditions that violate the ________ Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual
punishment.
A. Fifth
B. Eighth
C. Second
D. Sixth
E. First
B
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a. judicial review. b. judicial selection. c. presidential privilege. d. judicial activism. e. preferential treatment.
For the first time since Reconstruction, more Democrats than Republicans were elected to the House of Representatives from the South in 1994
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The view that the behavior of the Soviet Union was much like other nations in defining its interests and fostering its goals based upon power realities can be described as
a. the "Yalta Axioms.". b. the "Riga Axioms.". c. Franklin Roosevelt's view. d. George Kennan's view. e. Both options A and C are true.
Which of the following often participate in issue networks?
a. bureaucrats b. congressional staffers c. interest groups d. think tanks e. all of the above