How has the emergence of the Internet in the 1990s complicated legal definitions of obscenity?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should note that the definition of obscenity in Miller v. California (1973) estab-lished, as part of its obscenity test, that “contemporary community standards” should be applied. The question about what those standards are and the nature of the community are open to broad interpretation, however, in the international and nebulous realm of the Internet.
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Describe the role of diplomacy in U.S. foreign policy over the past 50 years.
What will be an ideal response?
Unlike federal judges, who are appointed by the president to life terms, state judges in Texas, except for those on municipal courts, are __________
a. appointed by the governor for specific terms b. selected by the state legislature for 10-year terms c. chosen by the Judicial Selection Committee of the Texas Bar Association d. elected to limited terms in partisan elections
The claim that democracies are less likely to go to war than autocracies is
a. not correct statistically. b. entirely correct statistically. c. dependent on the period of study. d. ambiguous.
After World War II, military strategist Bernard Brodie argued that the most important purpose of military powers is to ______.
a. win wars with overwhelming force b. prolong wars as much as possible c. provoke enemies into fighting each other d. avert wars entirely