Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Crises often demand that Congress act quickly, without due deliberation.
2. Voters tend to view their own member of Congress as less ethical than the rest of Congress.
3. Members of Congress virtually always face strong challengers because of the robust party recruitment process.
4. Greater transparency in Congress tends to lead to more negotiation and compromise.
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. False
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following best explains the outcome of the Mergens’ case?
a. The Court reaffirmed the principle of separation of church and state by forbidding the creation of faith-based clubs on campus. b. The Court upheld students’ rights to establish faith-based clubs and organizations on high school campuses. c. The Court refused to acknowledge the Equal Access Act in its application to high school campuses. d. The Court decided that high school students lacked the maturity to conduct faith-based activities on campus.
The discretionary authority of appointed officials is their authority to
A. shift federal dollars without clear authorization. B. not implement legislation. C. make policies that are not spelled out in advance by laws. D. spend federal monies, even though such monies are not officially part of the federal bureaucracy. E. act on behalf of government officials and represent the government in courts of law.
Which of the following was a consequence of the New Deal legislation passed during the Great Depression under the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
(A) States gained additional powers to pass legislation to relieve the economic problems of the Depression. (B) The federal government became a more important agent of change than in previous presidential administrations. (C) New presidential appointments to federal courts limited the judicial powers of the Supreme Court. (D) Social policy became the primary concern of state governments. (E) Presidents have been much more likely to defend their creation of emergency acts by claiming executive privilege.