Which of the following statements about libel and slander is true?
a. Libel is defamatory speech, but slander is not.
b. Both are protected under freedom of speech.
c. Slander creates a clear and present danger, but libel does not.
d. Both are forms of defamatory speech.
d
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According to the Pew Research Center, what percentage of Americans feel that the government has too much control over their daily lives?
a. 15 percent b. 25 percent c. 65 percent d. 80 percent
Which of the following reflects the operation of parliamentary supremacy?
A. courts refusing to accept the laws passed by the executive as binding B. high courts' act of invalidating laws passed by the legislature as unconstitutional C. judges' decisions remain subordinate to decisions of the legislative majority D. appellate courts' act of refusing to hear all the cases that are provided to it F. appellate courts' act of conducting a mandatory review
The period known as the Emergency refers to
a. the period following the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi that left the Indian independence movement leaderless. b. the period following the death of Jawaharlal Nehru that left the future direction of the Congress Party in question. c. a short period in which many formal democratic rights were suspended, and the country was ruled in an authoritarian fashion. d. the short period between the two periods in which Indira Gandhi served as the prime minister. e. a period of mass migration and interethnic violence that followed the creation of the separate states of India and Pakistan.
Since Lenin, many Marxists have argued that capitalists in the North exploit the South economically and use the wealth thus generated to buy off workers in the North
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.