Direct democracy can lead to bad decisions because
A) one must be elected to be involved in politics full time.
B) elected officials do not have enough information or policy expertise.
C) the opinion of a single person is not relevant to democracy.
D) people often decide large issues based on fleeting passions.
E) public policy is not a democratic institution.
D
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A. It is to be divided into discrete “blocks” of grants, each limited to $100 million. B. It is to be spent on a specific policy area decided on by the federal, state, and local governments. C. It is to be spent in the way the state or local government decides to spend it. D. It is to be tied to federal mandates that state or local governments must then implement or they will be taxed on the money. E. It is to be contingent on state/local endorsement of so-called "social" federal legislation.
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