Which of the following was a consequence of the case of John Peter Zenger?
A. It helped establish the free-press principle in American law.
B. It helped establish the principle of religious toleration.
C. It helped establish the right of a person charged with a crime to have a defense attorney.
D. It helped establish the right of habeas corpus.
Answer: A
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A) controlling large industries. B) protecting state forests and watersheds. C) applying academic scholarship and theory to human needs. D) strengthening direct democracy.
In the area between the Rio Grande River and the Nueces River in what once was Nuevo Santander and now was Tamaulipas, residents __________
A. greatly expanded their ranching operations that had been disrupted by the war for independence B. felt very distant from settlers in the main part of Texas and believed that the two areas had very little in common C. attracted several thousand immigrants from the United States D. were mostly outlaws and pirates who had driven out the original settlers
Unlike the other economies of East Asia, Hong Kong's economic development has taken place in a system employing
a. unrestrained, free-market capitalism. b. direct state control of the economic sector. c. Communist Chinese support. d. massive British foreign aid programs. e. a socialist economic philosophy.
During the late 1840s and early 1850s, the addition of new territory into the United States affected the sectional disagreements over slavery by
A) making them much worse B) changing them very little C) settling them once and for all D) calming them considerably