According to a "strict construction" interpretation of the Constitution,
A) the Constitution's provisions enjoy broad and quite open-ended meaning.
B) government has considerable flexibility under the "necessary and proper" clause.
C) the Constitution may be modified only by rulings of the Supreme Court.
D) government possesses only those powers explicitly stated in the Constitution.
E) the Constitution should be modified as popular opinion changes.
D
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During the early 1920s, which organization controlled every elective office in Dallas and showed considerable political power statewide?
a. The Republican Party b. The Populist Party c. The Roman Catholic Church d. The Texas Railroad Commission e. The Ku Klux Klan
All of the following are elements of systems that hold public administrators accountable EXCEPT ______.
a. voluntary compliance b. redundancy c. monitoring d. sanctions
When tax rates go up as income increases, the tax is said to be
a. progressive. b. broad-based. c. ability-to-pay. d. regressive. e. regulatory.
Inflation is best understood as the rate at which __________
a. gross domestic product expands b. prices for goods and services increase c. the federal government increases taxes to raise revenue d. the Federal Reserve Board expands the money supply