The Bill of Rights was designed to ______.
A. ensure that national majorities could impose their preferences on the press and the behavior of the citizenry
B. simply limit the capacity of state-level majorities to impose their preferences on the press and the behavior of the citizenry
C. maximize the capacity of the national government to enact the policy preferences of majorities
D. limit the capacity of government to impose conformity costs on those individuals and minorities whose views differ from the majority
Answer: D
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A. Ruth Bader Ginsburg B. Elena Kagan C. Clarence Thomas D. Anthony Kennedy
Dwight Waldo coined the term the administrative state in ______.
a. 1958 b. 1948 c. 1978 d. 1968
In Federalist No. 78, Alexander Hamilton sought to reassure skeptical anti-federalists by arguing that the judiciary ______.
a. was designed to interpret and not make laws with weak oversight power b. was a limited branch of government with no power to overturn a law c. would be impartial and, compared to the other two branches, its power would be weak d. would not use its law-enforcement powers against the people and would uphold and interpret laws
The __________ had its roots in the ARPANET project
Fill in the blank with the correct words.