Texas has tended to focus primarily on registering lobbyists as a means of which of the following?
a. helping interest groups to nominate candidates for elections
b. eliminating the influence of the interest groups over the policy-making process
c. controlling the actions of the legislators
d. controlling interest group actions
Answer: D
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A. overturned the state law prohibiting state funds from being used for medically necessary abortions B. defined life as beginning at conception, thereby making abortion subject to criminal prosecution as murder C. upheld restrictions of a lower court on demonstrations near abortion clinics and the homes of doctors who performed abortions D. overturned a series of restrictions (including "informed consent" and parental approval for minors) on abortions enacted by the state legislature
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a. the United States Constitution b. the Texas Constitution c. the Texas registry d. the state comptroller
__________ Rebellion was a protest by Massachusetts farmers to stop foreclosures by state courts
a. Brown's b. Smith's c. Miller's d. Shay's
The manner in which a problem is ______ and ______ determines the remedies likely to be proposed, the organizations that will be given responsibility for the problem, and the final outcomes of the public intervention into the problem.
A. attacked; satisfied B. conceptualized; defined C. identified; solved D. introduce; debated