Quotas are

a. a legal part of affirmative action

b. not considered a part of lawful affirmative action programs.
c. considered a legal part of affirmative action when applied to anything other than race.
d. considered a legal part of affirmative action only when applied to race.


b

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a. Maintaining power b. Growing the economy c. Stifling opposition d. Suppressing the people e. Waging war on enemy states

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What did the Supreme Court mean when it declared during World War II that race was a "suspect classification"?

a. Any person of a different race, and particularly Japanese Americans, should be deemed suspicious until they could prove innocence. b. Any law using race as a basis should be suspected of being an unconstitutional classification, but the burden would be on the one challenging the law to prove it. c. Any classification based on race would undergo suspect scrutiny during Supreme Court review, and the rule maker would have to prove it was used because of a compelling public interest. d. Any local, state, or national law using racial criteria was presumed to be unconstitutional unless it could be shown to be both necessary and compelling.

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An example of the loss of deference accorded to the Mexican president is the

a. Mexican president's difficulty in delivering his informe, or State of the Nation report, to the Mexican Congress. b. "Yo soy 132" movement. c. recent move by Congress to amend the Mexican constitution to include a vice president within the Mexican executive. d. efforts by the Mexican Congress to impose term limits upon the president. e. instances where members of the public have thrown their shoes at the President during some of his public appearances.

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