In the landmark Near v. Minnesota (1931) case, the Supreme Court incorporated part of the First Amendment to the states and established that ______.
a. seditious libel is not protected by the Constitution
b. prior restraint is only permissible in extreme cases
c. obscene publications could be banned
d. fighting words are not worthy of constitutional protection
e. the free exercise clause is unconstitutional
b. prior restraint is only permissible in extreme cases
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Brown v. Board of Education (1954) is a specific example of a decision aimed at the __________ of public schools
Fill in the blanks with correct word
Which of the following statements pertaining to dependency theory is true?
a. Poor countries are dependent upon the military protection of rich ones. b. Rich urbanites in the host country's capital city flee for rural areas, a trend known as capital flight. c. Poor countries will stay poor because they are economically subordinate to rich countries. d. Developing countries are dependent on authoritarian rule rather than democratic rule. e. Latin America's dependence on the U.S. helped advance Latin American countries'
Veto player theory suggests that countries containing many veto players with conflicting policy preferences are likely to be characterized by:
A. greater policy stability. B. smaller shifts in policy. C. less variation in policy shifts. D. weaker agenda-setting powers. E. all of these are characteristics likely to occur in such a situation.
One member of the U.S. House of Representatives represents approximately _______ people?
What will be an ideal response?