What factors or circumstances help keep the federal courts independent from Congress and the president?
A) The Constitutional guarantees of life tenure and a stable salary
B) The inability to impeach them
C) The power of judicial review
D) Constitutional restrictions on the President's and Congress's interaction with the court
E) The prohibition on nominees serving in any political offices
A
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A. wrong. B. correct. C. impossible to settle. D. up to each individual state to settle.
According to research, which of the following is true regarding media bias today?
a. The network evening news treats Democratic political candidates more favorably than Republican candidates. b. The media are not biased. c. All major television news stations, such as Fox News, attract only liberal television viewers. d. The media is prohibited by the First Amendment from broadcasting any politically- biased programs. e. The network evening news treats Republican political candidates more favorably than Democratic candidates.
A political researcher is studying the relationship between religious views and political views. However, the researcher believes that gender might affect the way that religious views and political views are related to one another; that is females and males might have different patterns of linkages between religious views and political views. In this situation, what kind of variable is gender?
A. A dependent variable B. An independent variable C. An antecedent variable D. An intervening variable
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