Which amendment prohibits federal and state courts and federal administrative agencies from hearing cases in which a private party names a state as a defendant without the state's consent?
a. Third
b. Fifth
c. Eleventh
d. Twelfth
c
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Opponents have voiced numerous objections for expanding the franchise, but what has not happened as a result of reducing barriers to voting?
A. Those who do not own property have not despoiled those who do own property. B. There was a decline in the percentage of those eligible to turn out and vote. C. Incumbents continue to win reelection at very high rates. D. It did not prevent a century of racial discrimination at the polls.
The American nation's experience with representative government dates back to the founding of the House of Burgesses in ________.
A. 1689 B. 1775 C. 1619 D. 1651 E. 1763
The U.S. Congress is best described as a ______ legislature.
A. unicameral B. bicameral C. tricameral D. multicameral
Writing for the majority in Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983), Chief Justice _____ stated, "The Constitution sought to divide the delegated powers of the new federal government into three defined categories, legislative, executive and judicial, to assure, as nearly as possible, that each Branch of government would confine itself to its assigned responsibility. The hydraulic
pressure inherent within each of the separate Branches to exceed the outer limits of its power, even to accomplish desirable objectives, must be resisted.". a. Warren E. Burger b. Earl Warren c. William Rehnquist d. John Roberts