Which of the following is NOT true about the Mexican president's power of appointment?
a. The president's authority to appoint high-level officials allows him to provide policy direction.
b. The sheer number of positions that the president is able to appoint means that the beginning of each administration experiences a high level of turnover in political positions, which slows progress on the president's political agenda in the early part of his sexenio.
c. The president's authority to make appointments has been severely curtailed by the Mexican Congress as a means of making the policy-making process more democratic.
d. The president has the power to appoint not only members of the cabinet but also other high-level officials.
e. The president's power of appointment helps the president build a team of like-minded officials and secure their loyalty.
c
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A. authoritarian system B. federal system C. confederal system D. representative system E. unitary system
The governing body for Texas counties is the ______.
a. commissioners court b. justice of the peace c. national government d. municipal governments e. council of county managers
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What was one result of nineteenth-century muckraking?
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