Because the Framers believed that people are not angels, they created a Constitution giving the government which type of authority?
a. legitimate
b. limited
c. implied
d. defined
b
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When a municipality possesses home rule, it
A) can secede from one state and join another whenever it pleases. B) can modify its charter and run its affairs without approval by the state legislature. C) has greater freedom than those municipalities that do not possess home rule in such fields as education and police power. D) can do all of the above. E) is entirely dependent on the federal government for help.
Secret political actions in foreign countries are
A) covert operations. B) overt operations. C) illegal operations. D) done only under the authority of the secretary of state. E) no longer possible since 1999.
During periods of rapid growth in federal spending, such as the New Deal of the 1930s and the Great Society of the 1960s, what has been the corresponding response of interest groups?
a. Since funding and services increased there was far less need for advocacy, thus the number of interest groups decreased. b. The number of organized and active interest groups increased significantly in order to advocate for specific economic, ideological, and political issues. c. Interest groups began to merge their organizations into the federal government’s bureaucracy. d. Interest groups disbanded because, in effect, they had been successful in advocating for the creation of the new funding programs. e. There was little discernible difference in the organization or number of interest groups.
Since the New Deal, ______.
A. both the Democrats and Republicans have become more conservative B. the Republicans have been the more liberal of the two main political parties C. the Democrats have been the more liberal of the two main political parties D. both the Republicans and the Democrats have remained unchanged