When Alexander Hamilton made a five-hour speech calling for a strong individual executive with imperial powers including a life term and an absolute veto, he may have been doing what?
a. calling for an American monarchy
b. shifting the debate away from weak presidential models
c. antagonizing Aaron Burr
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
b
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a. attempting to change an individual's behavior for their own good. b. having a clear and precise definition of the variables that will be tested. c. eliminating the influence of extraneous variables so that a cause and effect relationship can be established. d. an attempt to falsify or verify a stated hypothesis.
__________ restrict how long a member can serve in the state legislature.
a. Terms of office b. Federal regulations c. The Constitution d. Term limits
Woodrow Wilson’s charge against the European balance of power system—that it resulted in countries being cut up like cheese—was true in some cases because __________
a. the balance of power system had caused instability in some regions, leading to sharp ethnic divisions in some regions over time b. the aim of states in balancing power was to preserve their independence, but this was sometimes necessarily done at the expense of the independence of others c. the geographically larger and more powerful nations had more power to balance than smaller ones d. no international organization existed to fairly draw sovereign state boundary lines after major wars
Ways in which Texas has historically discriminated against minorities in elections include __________
a. district-based elections for the state legislature b. open primary elections c. restrictive voter registration laws d. universal suffrage