According to your authors, which of the following best symbolizes the American federal system?
A) a layer cake
B) a marble cake
C) both a layer and a marble cake
D) neither a layer cake nor a marble cake
E) a New York cheesecake with strawberries on top
B
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In 1932, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis coined a metaphor that is still used frequently by describing creative federalism as encouraging “laboratories of democracy.” What is meant by this concept?
a. States can be used to test new policies and the states also absorb the accountability if the efforts fail, thereby protecting the federal government’s integrity. b. States can try social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country, and if they are successful, other states can duplicate their efforts. c. The federal government can use states as laboratories for trying new policies. d. States are obligated to test the federal government’s policies since they are most accountable to the citizens. e. As “laboratories,” one state could have a democracy while other states experimented with other forms of government.
A policy that allows tax deductions for families who send their students to private schools is known as
a. school vouchers. b. Charter schools. c. home schooling. d. Texas School Choice. e. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
Which of the following did the Progressives introduce to California politics?
a. nonpartisan elections b. the Public Utilities Commission c. direct democracy d. all of the above
After winning its freedom from Mexico in 1836, Texas's economic landscape could be best described as _____
a. poor, rural, and agricultural b. rich and plentiful with the immediate discovery of oil. c. diversified with the development of computers and various petrochemicals d. rich and plentiful with the advent of NASA during the 1830s e. none of these