President ____ appointed Thurgood Marshall as the first black member of the Supreme Court.
a. Franklin D. Roosevelt
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Lyndon B. Johnson
d. Bill Clinton
c. Lyndon B. Johnson
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?A government that has the power to make and enforce law but which lacks the acceptance of the people is said to have
A. ?authority but not legitimacy. B. ?legitimacy but not authority. C. ?both authority and legitimacy. D. a democratic form of government. E. ?an authoritarian form of government.
The continuing need for a Texas bureaucracy is evaluated through a process known as
A) redistricting. B) senatorial courtesy. C) sunset review. D) administrative oversight. E) statutory analysis.
In recent years, members of political action committees and political parties have presented themselves as legitimate pollsters when in fact they have attempted to plant subtle facts in the minds of the respondents. These activities are referred to as
a. straw polls. b. scientific polls. c. pseudo-polls. d. political filtering. e. campaigning.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Legislators in the state assembly and Senate are required to sit on at least one committee 2. A conference committee is a temporary committee appointed to resolve differences 3. There are eighty members of the assembly and forty members of the Senate in California. 4. The Speaker of the assembly is the majority leader and elected by his or her fellow assembly members. It takes a two-thirds majority to pass the state budget and for new fees and taxes.