In Bleak House, Charles Dickens provides a strong attack on the English legal system. Many of these problems were associated with the system being:
a. loose and flexible
b. rigid and formal
c. focused on pretrial conference
d. too concerned about sentencing
b
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Examine the role of minor parties in U.S. politics. How have minor parties affected the electoral system? What limitations have kept them from achieving major-party status?
Provide a detailed assessment from the individual voter's perspective on the utility of voting for a minor party. Use the presidential election of 2000 (Bush v. Gore) as a test case.
Stalin's policy of agricultural collectivization was designed to:
a. increase farmers' income. b. give control of farms to small farmers rather than landlords. c. provide cheap food for urban workers. d. increase farm productivity using scientific methods brought from Europe.
The Civil War led to the expansion of national governmental power in all of the following ways EXCEPT
A. thousands of new government workers were hired. B. the federal government passed its first billion dollar budget. C. an income tax was imposed on citizens for the first time. D. Constitutional amendments were passed restricting states' control over citizen rights. E. governors of Confederate states were directly appointed by the U.S. President.
Third parties have influenced American politics by
A. refusing to allow their policies to be adopted by a major party. B. sometimes determining whether the Republicans or Democrats win an election. C. focusing their efforts on getting judges appointed to the bench rather than winning elections for the executive or legislative branches. D. winning elections to state legislative bodies. E. gaining control of several municipal governments.