The Three-Fifths Compromise sought to compromise on which issue for purposes of Congressional apportionment?
a. How small states measured their total area
b. How slave states counted their slave populations
c. How northern states compared to southern states
d. How new territories compared with existing states
b. How slave states counted their slave populations
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The lieutenant governor has the job of
a. alternate supreme court justice. b. chair, legislative conference committee. c. president of the state senate. d. federal government liaison.
After the Soviet Union broke up, which one of the following states did not inherit part of the USSR's nuclear arsenal?
a. Lithuania b. Belarus c. Ukraine d. Kazakhstan
Although federal district courts are theoretically bound by Supreme Court precedents, they sometimes deviate because
A. of all these factors: The facts of a case are seldom precisely the same as those of similar cases decided by the Supreme Court; federal judges may a different legal reasoning is justified; and ambiguities or unaddressed issues in the Court's rulings give lower courts some flexibility in deciding cases. B. the facts of a case are seldom precisely the same as those of similar cases decided by the Supreme Court. C. ambiguities or unaddressed issues in Supreme Court rulings give lower courts some flexibility in deciding cases. D. federal judges may decide a different legal reasoning is justified. E. None of these answers is correct.