Identify and describe the concepts of internal balancing and external balancing. How do these concepts relate to U.S. relationships with other states?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should identify internal balancing as the expansion of military forces to combat the threat posed by a larger power and external balancing as forming an alliance for the same purpose. Answers should address how states have chosen to maintain their relationships with the United States (bandwagoning) instead of engaging in one of these balancing behaviors.
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a. constitutional rights b. property rights c. education rights d. mineral rights
Why did southern states enact poll taxes?
A. to raise revenue for the government B. to ensure that only people who really want to vote would do so C. to circumvent the Fifteenth Amendment D. because literacy is necessary for democracy to function
Which of these, if true, would best support a rational-material explanation of the weakness of American bureaucracy?
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