The authors of the text note that some observers of the Court argue that its power of judicial review is
a. undemocratic because it allows a handful of unelected, life-tenured individuals to overrule the collective will of duly-elected representatives.
b. clearly assigned to the court by the national constitution.
c. a power to be shared with Congress.
d. wholly ineffective.
e. democratic because it provides for a system of checks and balances for the Congress.
a
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2 Examples of social policies that involve the Courts include:
a. racial segregation in public schools b. the application of the death penalty c. excessive jury verdicts d. only a and b e. all of the above
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a. no such retrenchment occurred, leading to a continued expansion of war powers abroad b. a similar reduction in federal power was seen in foreign and domestic troop levels c. American forces remained abroad, leading to a “freeze” in formal and informal hostilities d. America and its former enemies, Germany and Japan, entered a new era of nonviolent competition