Which of the following was the first independent regulatory commission established by the federal government?
A. Consumer Product Safety Commission
B. Food and Drug Administration
C. General Services Administration
D. Office of Personnel Management
E. Interstate Commerce Commission
Answer: E
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An ongoing and widespread complaint about the bureaucracy is its
A) lack of regulations. B) failure to seek input. C) uneducated workforce. D) slowness. E) partisanship.
A ______ is one in which multiple parties may legally operate but in which only one particular party has a realistic chance of gaining power.
A. nonpartisan system B. single-party system C. one-party dominant system D. two-party system
Referring to the box "Are All Forms of Discrimination the Same?" choose the statement that most accurately reflects regional differences in U.S. opinion about same-sex marriage
a. Public support for same-sex marriage is about the same now as it was at the end of the twentieth century. b. The Midwest shows the most growth in the percentage of the public in support of same-sex marriage from 1988 to 2010 . c. Legalization of same-sex marriage is not more common where public opinion is most favorable. d. Geography does not predict public opinion on same-sex marriage as it did with interracial marriage. e. The South lags behind all other regions in support for same-sex marriage.
The net effect of the Supreme Court decisions in McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden was
a. reversing its ruling in Marbury v. Madison. b. protecting the policy responsibilities of the states via the Tenth Amendment. c. restructuring the meaning of the Seventeenth Amendment. d. creating a powerful precedent that allowed future national policy to develop free of the constraints of state prerogatives.