The Framers did not trust the people, so they created which of the following two important limits on popular influence?
Answer: The election of the president and the election of the Senate
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Which of the following would evaluate a law that permitted the imposition of capital punishment based upon the concept of a universally accepted moral duty?
a. Teleological philosophers c. Deontologists b. Utilitarian philosophers d. Egoists
The Latin phrase that the author believes best should guide a researcher's reliance on information gleaned from the Internet is ______.
A. nulle poene signe lege B. e pluribus unum C. carpe diem D. caveat emptor
According to one study, judges rule on civil liberties cases in ways that are consistent with their ideological preferences roughly 80 percent of the time. Which model of judicial decision-making does this represent?
a. the legal model b. the constitutional law model c. the attitudinal model d. the stare decisis model e. the strategic model
How does historian A. J. P. Taylor characterize Hitler's role in starting WWII?
a. As a meticulous balance-of-power player b. As little more than an opportunist stepping into power vacuums c. As the defining cause of WWII d. As the intellectual source of the initial war planning, but not a major cause of the war e. As a force that actually reduced the possibility of war because his openly racist views alienated possible allies against the West