Describe the historical development of the election of senators

What will be an ideal response?


An ideal response will:
1, Explain the original process for selection of senators—selection of senators by the state legislature where each senator would have one vote.
2, Discuss the Seventeenth Amendment and its process for electing senators by popular vote of the electorate in each state.

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Which of the following best defines the term “party realignment”?

a. the post-mortem evaluation that parties conduct after an election  b. a shifting of party allegiances within the electorate  c. the process by which states allow third-party candidates  d. a retooling of party platform   

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The characteristics of contemporary warfare include all but which of the following?

a. Wars between great powers have become less frequent. b. The proportion of countries engaged in warfare has declined. c. Conquest of foreign territory is no longer a motive. d. Peacekeeping troops of the UN are almost always involved. e. Most wars now occur in the Global South.

Political Science

The Budget and Accounting Act revolutionized the federal budgeting by transferring a significant amount of authority from ______ to ______.

a. Congress; the president b. the president; Congress c. the president; the judiciary d. agencies; Congress

Political Science

List three characteristics of the Trump Rules.

What will be an ideal response?

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