According to Brock Blomberg, Gregory Hess, and Akila Weerapana, what is the importance of economic factors in the justification of violence?
What will be an ideal response?
• Terrorist groups form because they are not happy with the economic status quo.
• The individual socioeconomic position of a single terrorist is less important than economic welfare and opportunity at large.
• Terrorists exhibit a collective frustration about poverty, whether or not they are impoverished.
• Consequently, they believe violence is justified to redress denial of economic opportunity.
• Increased access to economic activity decreases the level of violence, and in contrast, decreased opportunities in high-income countries increase the probability of terrorism.
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What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following reasons explains why justices were accused of engaging in judicial activism in the Roe v. Wade (1973) Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion?
A. They decided that abortion should be legal based on a broad interpretation of the Tenth Amendment. B. They used the Fourteenth Amendment to argue that men and women were not granted the same reproductive rights without the legal right to abortion. C. They used the First Amendment to define abortion as a right to free speech. D. They strayed from the literal interpretation of the due process clause by establishing a new constitutional right to privacy.
Differential treatment based on some extralegal category such as race, ethnicity, or gender is known as
A. demographic. B. variation. C. disparity. D. discrimination.
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a. they were infected with syphilis b. they would receive various medical incentives c. they would be treated for bad blood d. their families would receive burial stipends