Popular sovereignty is defined as the ______.

A. authority of the state which has legal power to issue final commands
B. influences in a state that lie behind the law
C. authority to rule as vested in the general population
D. authority of the person or people who can make their will prevail


C. authority to rule as vested in the general population

Political Science

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A. salary may not be the main factor in recruiting and retaining high-caliber teachers B. it is difficult to establish an unbiased operational definition of merit to be applied to teachers C. merit-based pay is a substitute for an adequate salary scale D. teachers may abandon their own creativity in order to comply with a rigid set of standards

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The mixing of constraint levels is

A) accepted procedure for low-constraint research. B) desirable in naturalistic research. C) not appropriate. D) None of the above

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Phi is the appropriate correlation to use with

A) Nominal data. B) Score data. C) Ordered data. D) Any type of data.

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In a mixed electoral system,

a. a portion of seats is selected in winner-take-all single-member districts and a portion is allocated according to parties within multi-member constituencies. b. a portion of seats is selected in winner-take-all single-member districts and a portion of seats is appointed by the president or regional governments. c. seats in one chamber are filled through a winner-take-all system and seats in the other chamber are filled through a proportional representation system. d. seats in one chamber are filled through a winner-take-all system and seats in the other chamber are filled by appointments. e. only a portion of the legislature is ever up for election at any given time

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