The Constitution gives Congress the right to declare war. Yet in recent decades, presidents were able to take the country to war without congressional authorization. This demonstrates that the Constitution can be changed by __________.

A. legislation
B. amendment
C. judicial interpretation
D. custom


Answer: D

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a. a relinquishment of colonial control by U. S. policy makers. b. a questioning of the U. S. role in the world. c. a reassessment of the strategy of fighting in limited wars. d. foreign policy goals now became a ready source of public discourse. e. the collapse of the Cold War consensus.

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A) ?the Civil Rights Act. B) the Voting Rights Act. C) the Jim Crow era. D) the soaring youth population. E) the Vietnam War.

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What will be an ideal response?

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Which group has the highest poverty rate?

a. the elderly b. Hispanics c. central-city residents d. unmarried women

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