Which of the following statements is true of impeachment?
A) After a vote to impeach in the full House, an accused official is tried in the Senate.
B) The president has the power to impeach and remove from office the members of Congress.
C) Impeachment involves holding a debate for the purpose of preventing action on a bill.
D) Only civil officers, such as federal judges, can be removed by impeachment.
E) An accused official is removed from office only if he or she is convicted by a one-third majority vote of the Senate.
A
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In which of the following ways are the variations in state courts perceived as an advantage?
a. They give alternatives and provide varying arenas. b. They encourage the Supreme Court to issue writs of certiorari. c. They allow circuit judges to remain stationary. d. They allow descendants to “arena shop.”
Which of the following was upheld by the Supreme Court on the grounds that the political parties were private entities, not public, and thus could do as they wished?
A) The cardinal ballot B) The black poll C) The ancestral poll D) The grandfather clause E) The white primary
Recent scholarly research demonstrates that energetic and well-planned efforts by presidents to influence public opinion
A) can move public responses to opinion polls by about ten percentage points. B) are likely to have little effect. C) are far more effective when they concern foreign policy than domestic policy. D) are far more effective when they concern domestic policy than foreign policy. E) only occurs during a president's first year in office.
The first political issue faced by the nation was ratification of the Constitution. This was a yes/no issue that divided Americans into two groups:
one supporting agricultural interests and the other supporting financial and mercantile interests. This pattern has persisted ever since. This explanation of the development of the American two-party system can be described as a. tribal. b. social consensus. c. historical. d. institutional. e. factional.