Which of the following laws would be the most likely to draw strict scrutiny from the Supreme Court when determining its constitutionality?
a. Male and female student athletes cannot compete on the same basketball team at the university level.—
b. Businesses cannot discriminate against gays and lesbians in hiring and promotion decisions.
c. Those without a college degree are not eligible for upper-level civil service jobs.
d. Government contracts must be awarded to a contractor who is a racial minority whenever at least 10 percent of the bidders are minority-owned businesses.
d
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A) Macau B) Malvinas C) Spratly D) East Timor
The Founders, including James Madison, __________
a. embraced interest groups b. attempted to make interest groups illegal c. feared the mischief of factions d. regulated interest groups in Article IV of the Constitution
Holding factors such as temperature, lighting, and seating arrangement constant during experimental testing supports which of the following characteristics of scientific research?
a. operationalism b. control c. discoverability d. replication
The detention of John Merryman was an important case in presidential power because of President Lincoln’s assertion of the power to ______.
a. suspend habeas corpus b. indiscriminately punish Southern traitors c. write and enforce bills of attainder d. command the Union army