If no candidate for vice president receives a majority of the electoral votes,
A) the Senate selects the vice president from one of the two candidates with the most electoral votes.
B) the House of Representatives, voting by state, selects the vice president from one of the three candidates with the most electoral votes.
C) the Supreme Court determines the winner.
D) a majority of the state legislatures selects from one of the two candidates with the most electoral votes.
E) the constitution provides for a re-vote.
A
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Interpretations of constitutional law, statutory law, and administrative law are called
A) administrative regulations. B) case law. C) judicial traditions. D) jurisdiction. E) statutes.
The net effect of the Supreme Court decisions in McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden was
a. reversing its ruling in Marbury v. Madison. b. protecting the policy responsibilities of the states via the Tenth Amendment. c. restructuring the meaning of the Seventeenth Amendment. d. creating a powerful precedent that allowed future national policy to develop free of the constraints of state prerogatives.
How did the practice of presidential elections change during the first party system in the United States?
a. As the Democratic-Republicans grew strong, its members in state legislatures coordinated to select the best candidate to represent the party in the presidential election. b. The fragmented nature of the party system meant that Congress played a major role in choosing the President so this limited the influence of the executive branch. c. As competing slates of delegates pledged to support specific presidential candidates, the candidates replaced individual electors as the objects of voters’ decisions. d. The Federalists organized the first national party convention to build popular appeals to the electorate.
When we say that a political system is a mixed system, we are saying that a. it exhibits some democratic and some authoritarian features
b. it has multiple collective identities within it. c. it utilizes a combination of market and non-market economic policies. d. it is in transition from a democratic political system to an authoritarian one. e. it combines elements of a presidential political system and a parliamentary political system.