What does the term packing describe?
a. the allocation of House seats to the states after each 10-year census
b. the drawing of boundary lines of congressional districts following the census
c. a gerrymandering strategy which divides up and dilutes a strong minority to deny it the power to elect a representative
d. a gerrymandering strategy which puts a heavy concentration of one party's voters in a single district in order to "waste" their votes
Answer: d
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a. Fourteenth Amendment b. Fifteenth Amendment c. Nineteenth Amendment d. Twenty-Second Amendment
A Good Samaritan law
a. makes it a crime for a bystander to fail to come to the aid of another in serious peril if to do so would not put the bystander in harm's way. b. rewards persons who render assistance to strangers. c. protects persons who refuse to assist another individual who is in peril. d. limits the duty that strangers owe to victims of violent crimes.
___________ was the primary author of the Federalist Papers. These essays were published with a pseudonym. This founding father would convince the delegates to support ratifying the Constitution in Philadelphia and would later serve as the first Secretary of the Treasury.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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a. the Southeast b. the Midwest c. the Pacific Northwest d. the Southwest