What was the Supreme Court's rationale in the Civil Rights Cases (1883) for why Congress could not prohibit discrimination in public accommodations?
a. Congress cannot regulate public accommodations because they involve interstate commerce.
b. Congress can only regulate government discrimination, not discrimination by private individuals.
c. Congress cannot prohibit discrimination because doing so violates the First Amendment right to freedom of speech.--
d. Congress cannot prohibit discrimination because there was insufficient evidence that discrimination exists.
b
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A. his civic duties B. his fundamental duties C. the preferred-position doctrine D. his Miranda rights E. the Lemon test requirements
Which of the following accurately reflects what the US military's demands that political leadership provide clearer missions, adequate resources, and reasonable "exit strategies" came to be known as?
a. Domino Theory b. Vietnam Syndrome c. Operation Rolling Thunder d. Stockholm Syndrome e. Operation Desert Storm
People evaluate news material from their own partisan perspectives, called _________, and tend to process and remember the material more consistent with their preexisting attitudes, called ________
A) selective perception; selective retention B) social learning; observational learning C) minimal effects; maximum exposure D) primary attention; secondary attention E) personal view; historical view
A national health system is also called a
a. national health insurance system b. single-payer system c. corporatist system d. market-based system