By 2015, "fulltime legislator" was the single largest category of legislator occupations. This category overcame the historically dominant occupation of
a. retiree.
b. business owner.
c. business executive/manager.
d. lawyer/attorney.
d
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Which of the following is a a reason for the decline in the power of most legislatures?
a) legislatures have a strict coherent structure within which power can be concentrated b) legislatures have slow and cumbersome procedures c) legislatures do not meet often enough for effecive leadership to emerge d) legislatures drain the support services that are there for them
If the midterm elections in 2010 had created a Republican-controlled Congress, the resulting situation would be called a
a. midterm shift. b. unified government. c. divided government. d. separation of powers. e. continental divide.
Power is
A) the making of binding rules for society that determine the distribution of valued things. B) the possession of control over others. C) the response of the rest of society to the decisions made by authorities. D) the pursuit and exercise of demands. E) not necessary in a totalitarian state.
How did the Missouri Compromise seem to indicate a commitment to having a majority of free states rather than slave states?
a. Many states were expected to enter the Union from the territory north of Missouri’s southern border, which the Compromise declared free. b. The Missouri Compromise made slavery illegal in all but the original 13 states, most of which were already free. c. The Missouri Compromise outlined a plan for gradual emancipation staggered throughout the existing states. d. The Missouri Compromise promised a Constitutional amendment making slavery illegal within fifty years. e. The Southern states agreed to admit no more slave states.