How are minor political parties usually significant?
a. They distract from important policy debates.
b. They effectively disprove Duverger's law.
c. They push major parties to incorporate new ideas or elucidate current ones.
d. They win elections in crucial swing states.
c
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Research has shown that letters and phone calls from constituents to members of Congress are which of the following?
a. unwelcomed intrusions on their ability to make decisions b. almost always motivated by interest groups c. are systematically ignored d. a source of ideas for new laws and policies
In ______________, a case involving members of the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Supreme Court held unconstitutional a city council's denial of a permit to the Jehovah's Witnesses to use the city park for a public meeting
a. Brown v. Pena (1977) b. Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940) c. Niemotko v. Maryland (1951) d. None of the above is true.
The right to choose physician-assisted suicide has been
A) determined by the Supreme Court to be an issue best handled by each state. B) deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court under the Fourteenth Amendment. C) deemed constitutional when a living will exists. D) allowed only in the state of Missouri. E) left unaddressed by the Supreme Court.
Federalism under the second president Bush was poorly articulated, but actions of his administration and Congressional Republicans a. preempted state authority over school testing systems and driver's license procedures, obstructed state lawsthat would permit the medical use of marijuana, imposed burdensome new homeland security requirements,and also imposed expensive Medicaid spending
responsibilities on the states. b. continued to support the practice of state sovereignty in the same manner as President Reagan. c. rested less on theory and more on mandating programs without providing sufficient funding. d. were less important because increases in revenues made funding less of an issue.