Stuart Taylor argues that the current statutes, administrative rules, and Supreme Court precedents involving searches and seizures and law enforcement investigations
a. are inadequate to effectively deal with the threat of terrorism.
b. give the police too much power to violate people’s basic civil liberties.
c. strike a good balance between effectively fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberties.
d. were all shaped largely by the 2001 Patriot Act.
a. are inadequate to effectively deal with the threat of terrorism.
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Which statement explains why parliamentary systems have an advantage over presidential systems should a person of dubious character win executive power?
a. A president can never be removed from office before his term expires. b. A president is very difficult to remove before his term of office expires. c. A president has direct control over the salaries of both bureaucrats and legislators. d. A president loses his position if his party does not hold a majority in the legislature.
George Gallup believed that __________. This belief continues to be common today
a. the public should be surveyed only when the relative importance of an issue is high b. leaders should have an appraisal of public opinion and consider it in reaching their decisions c. straw polls should be used to gauge public opinion d. pollsters should expect a high degree of consistency in citizens' day-to-day political views
Many bureaucracies owe their very existence to __________
a. the Administrative Procedures Act of 1946 b. a majority vote in the Senate and approval from the judicial branch c. the president's right to create various "Schedule C" agencies d. strong interest groups that successfully lobbied Congress to create them
China's national legislature is a 3,000 member body called the _____________
A. National People's Congress B. Supreme Soviet C. National Diet D. Congress of People's Deputies