One of the important purposes of the "Contract with America" was to __________
a. decrease split-ticket voting
b. increase confidence in the military
c. make politics user friendly for voters
d. reduce corruption in Congress
c
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Your authors assess the impact of the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946 in which of the following ways?
A) The act is an effective mechanism for regulating the abuses of lobbying members of the legislative branch but has had little or no effect on that activity aimed at the executive branch. B) The act does not effectively regulate lobbying of Congress, and there are no provisions in it aimed at regulating lobbying of the executive branch. C) The act is an effective mechanism for regulating the abuses of lobbying members of the executive branch but has had little or no effect on that activity aimed at the legislative branch. D) The act has effectively remedied the abuses associated with lobbying all government officials. E) It has absolutely no effect or even public notice.
In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that ______.
A. school districts should have to integrate within exactly 5 years B. segregated schools were inherently unequal because the very fact of segregation made Blacks feel unequal C. busing would be used as the sole method to integrate schools D. all segregated facilities, whether they were schools or not, were unconstitutional
The fifty-five signatories of the Declaration of Independence were courageous in their actions because
A) they wanted to make history. B) ?of their belief in free and fair elections. C) ?the Declaration gave them natural rights. D) ?they had personal insecurities that they overcame. E) signing the Declaration was treason and punishable by hanging and drawing and quartering.
In _____________, the Court unanimously struck down a Maryland constitutional provision requiring persons seeking public office to take an oath declaring their belief in God
a. McDaniel v. Paty (1978) b. Torcaso v. Watkins (1961) c. Brown v. Pena (1977) d. Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)