Ballots that have more than one choice for an office, whether because the voter cast a ballot for more than one candidate or wrote in a name as well as making a mark are referred to as
A) cross over voting. D) closed election.
B) overvotes. E) open election.
C) white primary.
B
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Which of the following protects the independence of the federal judiciary?
a. Federal judges serve a twenty-year term and cannot be removed during that term. b. The salary of federal judges cannot be reduced during their tenure. c. Federal judges cannot be impeached for any reason. d. The votes of individual judges are secret from the public.
New Zealanders, Danes, and Swedes—all with __________ systems—concluded that their upper houses served no purpose and abolished them in recent decades
A) two-party B) unitary C) bicameral D) supervisory
Based on Downs's issue-attention cycle, what is one reason that policy issues fade from public attention?
a. The problem has no known solution. b. Congress blocks action on the policy proposal. c. People realize that solving the problem will be costly. d. The policy is enacted, and people believe that nothing more can be done.
The Baron de Montesquieu proposed that power should be ______.
a. shared among political leaders b. divided between different branches c. delegated by a central aristocracy d. held solely by an authoritarian ruler