A vexing question raised about affirmative action is whether __________
a. racial minorities know how to benefit from legal rights
b. policy should compensate some for past discrimination
c. the Fourteenth Amendment applies to civil rights laws now
d. economic issues should be kept apart from energy issues
ANS: B
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Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) was a Cold War Doctrine that did all of the following except
a. prevent nuclear war between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. b. allow each side in the Cold War an enormous number of nuclear warheads. c. give each side in the Cold War second-strike capability. d. cause a nuclear war between Russian and China. e. keep the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. from going to war.
In 1994 President Clinton named whom to the Supreme Court?
A) Robert Bork B) Stephen Breyer C) Ruth Bader Ginsburg D) Kenneth Starr E) Hugo Black
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