Explain the significance of Brown v. Board of Education.
What will be an ideal response?
It overturned Plessy and declared segregated schools to be inherently unequal. Although little changed immediately after the Brown decision, it was a catalyst for the civil rights movement. Brown did not eliminate all segregated facilities.
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A constructive response to dissatisfaction over a community policy may involve both a passive and an active component. An example would be
a. voting against a policy and then, if it is approved, organizing demonstrations against it. b. failing to vote and moving to another community. c. leaving the jurisdiction and doing campaign work. d. failing to vote and opting for a privatized alternative to government service.
Party competition is most likely to produce policy differences when there is a bimodal distribution of opinion within the electorate and parties take different issue positions accordingly
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Which of the following is not a step outlined by the Administrative Procedure Act?
a. The agency must let interested individuals and groups present views and information. b. The agency must obtain the president’s approval of the proposed rule. c. The agency must publish the final rule, explanation of the purpose, and responses to public comments in the Federal Register. d. The agency posts a notice of the proposed rule in the Federal Register. e. The final rule goes into effect no sooner than thirty days after publication.
What are the eight categories of crime that are used for statistical study by the federal and state government?
a. aggravated crimes b. property crimes c. misdemeanors d. index crimes