The __________ was a prominent monetary system for a century before the 1970s in which the value of national currencies was pegged to the value of gold or other

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Answer: gold standard

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The elastic clause is related to which of the following concepts?

A. implied powers B. enumerated powers C. reserved powers D. concurrent powers E. All of these answers are correct.

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How many presidential vetoes has Congress overridden?

a. Less than 20% b. About 35% c. Exactly 50% d. More than 70% e. Almost 99%

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Although the UN General Assembly cannot pass binding resolutions, it does find power in being able to ______.

A. control budgets for UN agencies and peacekeeping operations B. refer states to other regional IGOs C. appoint judges to the ECJ D. appoint nonpermanent members to the Secretariat

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Scholars created a common definition for public administration a century after the field’s inception. 2. Public administrators must answer not only to their superiors but also to legislators and the courts. 3. Policy formulation and policy execution are so similar that public administration scholars have often argued that the two concepts should be combined. 4. The term red tape refers to the ways administrators must use federal programs to more securely attach the different layers of government. 5. In writing about a politics–administration dichotomy, Woodrow Wilson was mostly arguing that public administrators were basically the same as members of Congress.

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