If Americans want Congress to quit creating pork barrel projects (also known as earmarks), they have to ______.
a. insist that their individual representatives be more responsive to local needs
b. pay closer attention to what their representatives are doing in Congress
c. reward their representatives more for engaging in national lawmaking and less for acts of representation
d. give more money to congressional campaigns
c. reward their representatives more for engaging in national lawmaking and less for acts of representation
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Which of the following is true of the Central Intelligence Agency?
a. Most of the information the CIA gathers comes from open sources, such as the Internet. b. It is the second most important intelligence agency, behind the National Security Agency. c. It is headed by the director of National Intelligence. d. After 9/11, it was merged with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Why is it logical for citizens to not vote?
A. The benefits are collective and they enjoy the payoff even if they have not helped to produce them by voting. B. The benefits are individual, but since governments do not provide many tangible benefits, the costs of voting outweigh the benefits. C. Votes do not really matter because politicians can manipulate the public into believing whatever they want. D. The system of separated institutions sharing powers provides more influence to the unelected branches of the government, such as the judiciary and the bureaucracy.
Which of the following state laws would be most likely found to be unconstitutional on the basis of the Supreme Court's suspect classification doctrine?
a. a state law prohibiting persons who have been convicted of felonies from working as public school teachers b. a state law prohibiting unmarried couples and single persons from becoming adoptive parents c. a state law allowing landlords to refuse to rent to families with children under the age of six d. a state law prohibiting noncitizens from working in the healthcare field e. a state law prohibiting Hispanics from voting
David Baldus studied the death penalty and its impact on minorities in the early 1990s. What one frequently quoted finding of his study?
a. The use of the death penalty was proportionate to the racial mix of society as a whole. b. Killers of whites are 4.3 times more likely to be sentenced to death than killers of blacks. c. Blacks commit murder more frequently than whites. d. A killer of a white victim is less likely than a killer of a black victim to receive the death penalty. e. Blacks are more heavily represented on death row than whites, but more whites are actually executed.