In recent years, the filibuster has ______.
a. been used much less frequently than in the past
b. become more likely to be used by bipartisan groups of opponents of civil rights legislation
c. become a tactic regularly used by the minority party to block proposals of the majority party
d. become a tactic regularly used by the majority party to block proposals of the minority party
e. become a much weaker tactic because of recent reforms instituted by the Senate
c. become a tactic regularly used by the minority party to block proposals of the majority party
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In the American federal system, __________ levels of government share power
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The process of drawing district lines to maximize the number of majority –minority districts is called what?
A) Affirmative action redistricting B) Gerrymandering C) Cracking D) Reallocation E) Logrolling
The threat from the federal government to withhold federal funding from states for failure to comply with certain conditions on a federally funded program is called ___________
A. Partial preemption B. Cross-cutting requirements C. Crossover sanctions D. Direct Order
A regression analysis that minimizes the squared difference of the residuals is called:
a. a log linear relationship b. a PRE measure c. a squared relationship d. Ordinary Least Squares