The vice president serves as president of the U.S. Senate, but this role is mostly ceremonial
The de facto head of the U.S. Senate is the Senate majority leader. In Texas, the __________ serves as the president of the Senate, and the __________ is the real leader of the Texas Senate.
A) vice president of Texas; Senate majority leader
B) lieutenant governor; Senate majority leader
C) lieutenant governor; lieutenant governor D) vice president of Texas; lieutenant governor
E) Senate majority leader; Speaker of the Texas House
Answer: C
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a. The names of jurists are kept strictly hidden from the public. b. The author of majority decisions is withheld from the public. c. The court refuses to admit eighty-five percent of decisions submitted to it, without giving any reasoning. d. No cameras or reporters are admitted into the courtroom. e. All of the above are elements of German judicial secrecy.
Which of these statements best captures the logic of the predator argument as outlined by Wendt?
a. Anarchy causes predation. b. Predation is an inherent characteristic of all states in an anarchic world. c. Logically, predation must derive from flaws in human nature. d. It takes only one predator state in the system to force all other states in the system to behave in a predatory way. e. Predatory states will not survive for long because all other states in the system will band together to destroy them.
Gibbons v. Ogden increased the power of the national government by interpreting very broadly the ______.
a. federal police power b. congressional power to declare war c. commerce clause of the Constitution d. necessary and proper clause of the Constitution e. none of the these
Which ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe introduced the world to the term "ethnic cleansing"?
a. Chechnya b. Armenia c. Tibet d. Tiananmen e. Bosnia-Herzegovina