Shawn is a student of constitutional history in Texas. Which of the following provisions in the 1876 constitution would he most likely identify as a reaction to the policies of Reconstruction?

a. the reduction in the salaries of legislators
b. the reduction in the size of the judicial branch
c. the introduction of the balanced budget provision
d. the limit set on the legislature to meet only biennially


Answer: C

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a. the Council of Ministers approval of legislative proposals requires a vote that represents both a majority (55%) of the member states and a majority (65%) of the EU population. b. legislative proposals must gain an approval of a majority in both the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. c. the Council of Ministers must vote twice on legislative proposals, with a majority supporting the proposals on each vote. d. some legislative proposals require the approval of a super-majority (75%) of the votes in the Council of Ministers, while others require only a simple majority (51%). e. legislative proposals must gain a qualified majority in the Council of Ministers and a simple majority in the European Parliament.

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Interobserver reliability measures which of the following?

a.) consistency among observers in structured observation b.) consistency of coding in a structured observation c.) consistency between observations in unstructured observation d.) consistency in the use of field notes

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As of 2008, the federal government spent a little over ______ of the total amount of money spent by governments in the United States.

A. one third B. one half C. two thirds D. four fifths

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Good closed-format surveys have three features, mutually exclusive, exhaustive, and balanced. Discuss these three features and an example of each

What will be an ideal response?

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