Which of these resulted from the incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the U.S. Constitution?
a. National provisions are applied to state criminal cases
b. The U.S. government must allow state laws to reign supreme over national law.
c. Individual state provisions are applied to cases of federal law.
d. The U.S. government must respect the actions of all individual citizens.
e. International treaties are applied to state criminal cases.
a
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A. allowing home industries to fail B. provoking retaliation and reducing world trade C. lowering consumer prices below profitable levels D. easily allowing foreign competitors access to U.S. markets
Which topic is on the agenda of the Doha Round of WTO trade negotiations?
A) forestry B) industrial products C) electronics D) maritime treaties.
What effect does political scientist John Mueller suggest nuclear weapons had on the nature of the Cold War?
a. They had a major effect and were the reason that the Cold War did not turn "hot." b. They were irrelevant. c. They had a minimal effect, limiting the expansion of the major powers into smaller theaters like the Middle East. d. They brought about a reduction of the ideological component of the war. e. They brought about a greater emphasis on the ideological component of the war.
International maritime law establishes a "territorial limit" which ________
a. extends a state's sovereignty 12 miles beyond its shores b. extends a state's sovereignty 25 miles beyond its shores c. allows a state to set its own claim to the waters which it borders d. prohibits other states from coming within 200 miles of a state's shores e. prohibits one state from infringing on another state's fishing and mineral rights within