A citizen petition for a special election to remove an official before his or her term expires is a(n)
a. referendum.
b. recall.
c. initiative.
d. writ.
e. suffrage.
B
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a. invariably violated the Eighth Amendment ban on "cruel and unusual punishment." b. violated the Fifth Amendment's due process clause. c. was applied in a racially biased manner. d. could not be shown to deter crime. e. violated U.S. obligations under international human rights treaties.
According to the 2000 census, a majority of Americans live in the South and West, the region known as the Sunbelt
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
World system theorists argue that when countries of the periphery became politically sovereign, or independent, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, their ruling elites
a. cut off all economic ties with the world economy. b. cut off all political ties with the world economy. c. cut off political and economic ties with the world economy. d. maintained close economic ties to the world economy.
According to the text, the two questions about the federal judiciary that arise at a deeper level are ______.
a. (1) how political is it? and (2) how powerful is it? b. (1) how important is it? and (2) how necessary is it? c. (1) what is its role? and (3) what authority should it have? d. (1) what is its relationship to Congress? and (2) how should it exercise its authority?