In Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court adopted the doctrine of "separate but equal" in order to rule that laws that segregate people by race are unconstitutional

Indicate whether the statement is true or false


False

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A Phi coefficient of -1.00 would indicate that

A) There is a perfect negative relationship between the variables. B) There is no relationship between the variables. C) One should have used the Spearman rank-order correlation. D) A computational error was made because negative Phi coefficients are impossible.

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James Madison argued in Federalist Paper No. 51 that "the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department" was the

A) selection by the voters of men of good character and conscience who would resist the temptation to extend their power. B) granting of the means and the motive to each branch of government to resist encroachment of others into their areas of authority. C) establishment of a Bill of Rights that limited governmental power. D) identification in the Constitution of each specific power that the branches of government would possess. E) establishment of a single branch of government that would be clearly superior to the other branches, thus ensuring consistency and regularity.

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The power of courts to declare legislative and executive actions unconstitutional is called

a. federalism. b. judicial review. c. checks and balances. d. separation of powers. e. judicial preemption.

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The control group is the group of participants __________

a. directly exposed to the independent variable. b. not exposed to the independent variable. c. only briefly exposed to the independent variable. d. none of the above.

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