In the context of the three-fifths compromise, the delegates from the northern states:
A) did not want slaves to be counted as part of the population.
B) wanted a legislature with two separate chambers.
C) did not want southern states to have any representation in the upper house.
D) wanted each state to have only one vote.
E) did not want to trade with the southern states.
A
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A) participants' preferences. B) a random number generator. C) researchers' preferences. D) drawing straws.
Which of the following statements is true of the practice of senatorial courtesy?
A. It allows the president to veto a federal nomination by a senator from his or her own party. B. It is a written statement by a court expressing the reasons for its decision in a case. C. It is exercised by senators of the president's political party. D. It empowers appellate courts to overrule district court decisions. E. It is a spoken argument presented to a judge in person by a senator during a trial.
In addition to the structural shift to bipolarity, constructivists point to which reasons for the loss of moderation in the early twentieth-century balance of power?
a. a decrease in nationalism, a rise in desire for peace, and British policy b. an increase in nationalism, a rise in complacency about peace, and German policy c. an increase in nationalism, a rise in military strength among states, and German policy d. an increase in nationalism, a rise in complacency about peace, and French policy
Universal suffrage for women was achieved
a. after the Civil War with the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment. b. through state-level action alone; the national government has never formally changed the Constitution but has simply reinterpreted it to include women. c. in 1920 with the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment. d. at the end of World War II with the adoption of the Universal Women’s Suffrage Act.