Which statement best explains John Kennedy's decision to select Lyndon Johnson as his running mate in 1960?
A)He was attempting to provide geographic balance to the ticket, since Johnson was from Texas and Kennedy was from Massachusetts.
B)It was an attempt to provide political balance to the ticket, since Johnson was a senator and Kennedy was a senator.
C)He was trying to provide personality balance to the ticket, since Johnson was more charismatic than Kennedy.
D)It was an attempt to provide religious balance to the ticket, since Johnson was a protestant and Kennedy was a Catholic.
A
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Which of the following is a way that elections ameliorate the problem of delegation of authority?
A. They give ordinary citizens a say in who represents them. B. Elections are supervised by citizen judges. C. They discourage those who want to replace officeholders from monitoring and reporting on the activities of elected officials. D. The requirement that all citizens must vote ensures that the electorate is representative of all interests.
Which is a way that the rights of American citizens are limited?
a. when the government decides to rescind a right in the Bill of Rights b. when the scope of the government clashes with the rights listed in the Bill of Rights c. when the rights of Americans conflict with some collective good or society values d. when civil rights come into conflict with civil liberties
John Roberts is
A) the most liberal justice on the Supreme Court. B) currently chief justice of the Supreme Court. C) currently an associate justice of the Supreme Court. D) the Attorney General. E) the Solicitor General.
The Clean Air Act of 1970, which set federal air quality standards for the whole country but required the states to draft plans to enforce those standards, is an example of
A) dual federalism. B) cooperative federalism. C) shared federalism. D) regulatory federalism. E) local federalism.