Explore the strategies devised by interest groups and parties to get around campaign finance reform legislation.
What will be an ideal response?
Students' answers may vary.
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The meaning of the word __________ is "rule by the many."
Fill in the blank with the right word.
Which of the following is NOT a major challenge currently facing state and local governments?
A. health care costs and delivery B. intense political divisions over new immigrants C. providing adequate defense against foreign military threats D. cost of corrections and prisons E. poverty in the inner cities
Discuss some of the ways that public opinion and judicial traditions and doctrines such as stare decisis act as checks on the U.S. Supreme Court.
What will be an ideal response?
In the Supreme Court case involving Charles Schenck, which tested the constitutionality of the Espionage Act, the Supreme Court decided that
A. freedom of speech could be curtailed if the words produced a "clear and present danger." B. the right to criticize government was a fundamental civil liberty that could not be infringed upon even in times of war. C. although the government could issue injunctions to prevent the media from printing materials that threatened national security, it could not punish them after the materials had been published. D. the Constitution's guarantee of free speech was applicable only to speech that could be conclusively proven to be true. E. freedom of speech could be curtailed if the speech tended to encourage pernicious actions.