Which of the following reversed the Dred Scott decision?
A) First Amendment
B) Fourteenth Amendment
C) Nineteenth Amendment
D) Twenty-seventh Amendment
E) an executive order
B
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Suppose that every citizen in Country J is either a member of a labor union, active in a civic organization, or both. Country J has a high level of __________
a. dissidence b. social capital c. civil disobedience d. selective incentives
Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia__________
a. attempted to change the political makeup to a more liberal democracy, but did not renounce the planned economy of the Soviet state b. rejected the economic “shock therapy” approach recommended by the IMF, pursuing instead a path of economic autocracy c. employed economic “shock therapy” to transition to liberal democracy, which transformed Russia painfully, but helped to reduce nationalism d. employed economic “shock therapy” to transition to liberal democracy but quickly changed to a more gradual choice
In National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012), the Supreme ruled that states do not have to expand their Medicaid coverage because
A) the provision violates the Constitution by impermissibly threatening states with a loss of existing federal funding for a program. B) health care is purely a state issue. C) health care is purely a federal issue. D) the provision violates the Constitution by not requiring more state funding for the program. E) the provision created a tax that is not permissible.
Under the Constitution, which of the following is true about the responsibility for common defense and security?
a. It is a shared responsibility between the states and the federal government. b. It is solely the responsibility of the national government. c. The federal government sets general policies, but a supermajority of states can disapprove of any policies. d. The states would continue to handle these policies because the national government would take responsibility for regulating commerce.