In many states and counties, judges have to stand in a retention election, which is a special election
a. to decide if a court, like family court, should be retained.
b. to decide if judges in a particular state or county should have term limits.
c. in which the members of the legislative assembly vote to keep or remove a sitting judge.
d. in which citizens vote to keep or remove a sitting judge.
d
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The United States dropped nuclear weapons on which cities?
a. Berlin and Stuttgart b. Rome and Naples c. Hiroshima and Nagasaki d. Moscow and Khabarovsk
Which of the following presidential actions does not require Senate ratification or confirmation?
a. The president negotiates an arms control treaty with North Korea. b. The president negotiates an executive agreement with Japan to increase agricultural imports to that country. c. The president appoints an ambassador to Brazil. d. The president appoints a new chief justice. e. The president appoints a new secretary of state.
State agencies are sometimes created as a result of
A) bureaucratic efficiency. B) citizen complaints and outrage over an issue. C) a need to keep up with population growth. D) high state unemployment rates.
The Anti-Saloon League, whose successful lobbying led to the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment, was successful in part because
a. it focused only on electing “drys” and defeating “wets.” b. it offered a broad platform that took a stance on virtually every important political issue of the day. c. it worked through an entirely new organizational structure and avoided the conflicts that already existed in many churches and local temperance groups. d. it insisted that any candidate receiving its endorsement had to be a publicly sworn nondrinker.