In terms of party realignments, which of the following best describes the Sixth Party System?
a. No one party controls the presidency.
b. Democrats control the presidency.
c. Republicans control the presidency.
d. Democratic-Republicans control the presidency.
a. No one party controls the presidency.
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a. strict scrutiny b. formal rationality c. heightened scrutiny d. substantive justice
Which electoral practice did the 1997 U.S. Supreme Court case, Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party, specifically allow states to prohibit?
a. Blanket primaries b. Felon disenfranchisement c. Fusion d. Nonpartisan primaries
The slowing of economic growth in the Soviet Union resulted in ________ under Gorbachev
a. perestroika and austerity measures b. genuine détente, glasnost, and statist economic policies c. glasnost and austerity measures d. glasnost, perestroika, and genuine détente e. perestroika and statist economic policies
The court has rarely applied the right to privacy beyond abortion and birth control; however, in 2003 the court reversed a previous ruling in Lawrence v. Texas when
a. it approved physician-assisted suicide. b. it criminalized private investigators from surveilling private residences. c. it overturned a law protecting the rights of invasive paparazzi. d. it overturned a law allowing people to be nude in their homes if in view of the street. e. it overturned a law making it a crime for two people of the same sex to engage in certain types of intimate sexual conduct.