What was the Grange's motivation for putting the power to call a special legislative session solely in the hands of the governor?

What will be an ideal response?


The Grange intended to limit the legislature by giving the power to call a special session in the hands of the governor, thereby strengthening the governorship and creating a roadblock to an overzealous legislature.

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A regression of the number of cases of a particular disease per 1000 people based on the number of people vaccinated against it as children (per 1000) is performed on data collected from 34 cities. The results are summarized below:

Intercept .914
Slope -.001
a. Fill in the blanks of the ANOVA table.

b. What is the predicted number of cases per 1000 population in a city where the vaccination rate is 102 out of 1000?
c. In words, what is the meaning of the coefficient -.001? What does this mean, and
how can it be interpreted in the context of the population being studied?
d. What is the value of the correlation coefficient?
e. What is the standard deviation of the residuals?

Political Science

The Democrats and Whigs tried to keep slavery out of national politics

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Political Science

An example of a secondary national interest would be ________

a. a country's interests close to home b. the affairs of a far-off nation c. a country's interests in safeguarding its territorial integrity d. homeland security issues e. a state's concerns with an internal independence movement

Political Science

The question of how much control the government should have over the way we organize and live our collective lives is a question on the ______ ideological dimension.

a. social order b. economic c. political d. conservative e. collective

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