What are some of the advantages the president holds in the arena of foreign policy?

What will be an ideal response?


Students should identify and describe some of these advantages: unified office (does not have to deal with coordination/collective action problems), superior information sources, capacity for secrecy, explicit international powers in the Constitution, implied/emergency powers.

Political Science

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Social movements are as tightly organized as political parties

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

Political Science

The nation's first law regulating greenhouse gas emissions was signed into law by Gov. Schwarzenegger, and is titled ______.

A. AB 32 B. Proposition 11 C. the DREAM Act D. the Clean Air Act

Political Science

Does Congress have exclusive authority over legislation?

What will be an ideal response?

Political Science

Which of the following is the best definition of federalism?

a. A constitutional arrangement by which two or more levels of government share formal authority over the same area and people. b. A constitutional arrangement concentrating power in a central government. c. A loose association of states constitutionally created by a strong central government. d. A loose association of states with mutually recognized compacts but no central government.

Political Science