When a senator intervenes with a government agency so a surviving child can get an overdue Social Security check, he or she is engaging in __________.

A. franking
B. an assistance program
C. casework
D. policymaking


Answer: C

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a. The framers wanted competition between political parties. b. It developed in the struggle between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. c. It was a compromise between a unitary system's efficiency and a multiparty model's diversity. d. It developed in the struggle between slave owners and abolitionists.

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In _____, the Supreme Court held that segregation alone did not violate the Constitution

A) Bakke v. California B) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka C) Lawrence v. Texas D) Plessy v. Ferguson E) Scott v. Sandford

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If a senator from Ohio agrees to support a fellow senator's bill in exchange for that member's promise to support the Ohio senator's bill, it is an example of

A) gerrymandering. B) the trustee role. C) logrolling. D) a pocket veto. E) a filibuster.

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By the mid-twentieth century, which of the following was in place as part of the essential architecture of the modern presidency?

A)Office of the First Spouse B) Congressional Budget Office C)USA PATRIOT Act D) Executive Office of the President

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