The Founders believed that the ultimate guarantor of liberty, justice, and order was
a. a system of checks and balances.
b. a written constitution.
c. an independent judicial system.
d. the virtue of the people.
e. periodic protests by the people.
d
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The country that suffered a domestic holocaust at the hands of the Khmer Rouge is
A. Thailand. B. Cambodia. C. Laos. D. Burma. E. Indonesia.
Ngo Dinh Diem, whom President Eisenhower recognized as the leader of the independent government of South Vietnam, was NOT
A) a Catholic. B) a democrat. C) a Vietnamese nationalist. D) an anti-Communist.
Benito Mussolini called the invasion of what country in 1935 a war to spread civilization?
a. France b. Ethiopia c. Britain d. Hungary e. Belgium
Which statement about the regulars of the Continental Army is true?
A. In social composition and military tactics, the American army came to resemble the British army. B. Most of the soldiers were older, propertied farmers with families, whose substantial farms, left to the care of wives and children in their long absence, fell into disrepair. C. Despite the hardships, Continental soldiers-who had enlisted for the sake of liberty-refused the temptations of desertion and mutiny that plagued the hired armies of Europe. D. While local partisans in the South often ran at the first encounter with the enemy, the Continental Army proved its mettle in a series of victories in the Carolinas and Georgia.