The amendment that reversed the Supreme Court ruling that declared the congressional levying of an income tax to be unconstitutional was
A) the Twenty-sixth Amendment.
B) the Seventeenth Amendment.
C) the Eighteenth Amendment.
D) the Sixteenth Amendment.
E) the Fourteenth Amendment.
D
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During his 14-year tenure in office, Governor Rick Perry argued that the federal government had increasingly taken over more activities of the state government. This is an example of what type of federalism?
A) coercive federalism B) cooperative federalism C) new federalism D) dual federalism
Since the early 1990s, crime rates have
a. doubled. b. increased slightly. c. remained unchanged. d. decreased.
Prior to the 1970s, economists had assumed that inflation and unemployment forces pushed
a. down the poverty line. b. in opposite directions. c. in the same direction. d. out foreign competition. e. up interest rates.
Southern states were successful in stripping away the civil rights of Blacks because ______.
A. Southern senators successfully used the filibuster to block any legislative action B. the election of a string of southern presidents allowed aggressive use of the veto to block federal action C. the Supreme Court narrowly interpreted the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to overturn federal laws D. following economic depressions in the 1880s, many African Americans left the South and moved North, seeking more steady work