The double jeopardy clause prevents an individual who is acquitted of a crime from which of the following?
a. being tried again by the same government for the same crime
b. going free
c. asserting innocence
d. seeking the assistance of an attorney
a
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Which of the following statements best describes the government’s attempt to frame foreign policy?
a. News organizations prefer that government officials not try to frame foreign policy issues so the media can manipulate the information to make it more palatable for the public. b. Political leaders rarely try to frame foreign policy because of the investigative depth of social media sources. c. News organizations and government officials regularly work together to frame foreign policy in a way that will draw the highest ratings. d. Political leaders know that policy problems are viewed from several perspectives, so they work to devise news frames that serve their interests.
A correlation of +.89 represents
A) A weak positive relationship between the variables. B) A strong positive relationship between the variables. C) A perfect relationship between the variables. D) A weak negative relationship between the variables.
Generally speaking, political action committee (PAC) contributions have __________
a. become increasingly important in congressional elections b. decreased for incumbents but increased for challengers and open seats c. become less important in federal elections and more important in state elections d. becomeless important
What is a distinguishing feature of democracy?
a. People have opportunities to influence the decisions of government. b. People can realistically expect to control the government's choice of priorities. c. People can realistically expect to control the government's production of laws. d. People can realistically expect to influence the decisions of local government, but not state or federal government.