Identify the purpose and impact of the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
What will be an ideal response?
The act was designed to provide economic opportunities for Native Americans by authorizing them to establish gaming operations on their property. The money raised must be used for education, economic development, infrastructure, law enforcement, and courts. Despite this influx, many Native Americans remain behind other Americans in education and economic wealth.
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Which of the following helps to explain why the comprehensive constitutional reform efforts of the mid-1970s failed?
a. The delegates to the constitutional convention were ordinary citizens who did not understand the deficiencies of the Texas Constitution. b. The reform effort was predicated on the need to change provisions that were hindering economic growth, but the Texas economy took off in the 1970s under the existing constitution. c. Texas could not reform its constitution without obtaining "preclearance" from the Justice Department under the Civil Rights Act. d. Special interests fought against reform because they did not want to give up the protections that the old constitutionafforded them.
California Proposition 187, if enforced would have denied public benefits, such as healthcare and education to undocumented immigrants and their children
A. True B. False
Graham Allison's governmental politics model suggests that decisions are the result of
a. following only government established standard operating procedures. b. instrumental rational calculations by governmental leaders, like expected utility. c. cognitive dissonance among high level government leaders. d. various bargaining games among bureaucratic players within the government.
In 1792, Congress passed the _________ Act, which designated the president pro tempore of the Senate as next in line to become president after the vice president and the Speaker of the House
A) Executive Office of the President B) Resignation or Death C) Presidential Power D) Presidential Succession E) War Powers