List four of the major types of interest groups in Texas. How do they differ in their objectives or issues of interest and their relative influence?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: An ideal response will:
1. Identify at least four of the following types of groups: business, professional, labor, education, public interest, minorities, agricultural, religious, local governments.
2. Compare and contrast the issues of interest to different groups.
3. Compare and contrast the influence of chosen groups.
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A. focus extensively on childbearing B. reject the practice of homosexuality as unacceptable C. express stronger support for divorce and abortion D. place women's domestic duties over their occupational choices E. suppress notions of gender equality actively
_____ wrote in Federalist Paper No. 48 that ". . . It will not be denied, that power is of an encroaching nature, and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it. After discriminating therefore in theory, the several classes of power, as they may in their nature be legislative, executive, or judiciary; the next and most difficult task, is to provide some
practical security for each against the invasion of the others. What this security ought to be, is the great problem to be solved.". a. Thomas Jefferson b. James Madison c. Benjamin Franklin d. None of the above is true.
Publicly funded colleges and universities usually cannot control teaching loads, hiring and promotion, and the allocation of funds among internal units
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
When Bill Clinton came into office in 1992, his foreign policy advisers were drawn from the ranks of those who believed in
A) ?isolationism. B) ?containment. C) ?disengagement D) ?appeasement. E) ?imperialism.