Which of the following caused a number of southern states to leave the New Deal coalition that had emerged in the 1930s?
a. the election of Bill Clinton as president in 1992
b. John Kennedy's "New Frontier" proposals
c. Harry Truman's "Fair Deal" program
d. the signing of the Civil Rights Act by Lyndon Johnson in 1964
Answer: d
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a. providing the bulk of the money candidates use to run for office b. recruiting candidates to be nominees c. taking part in primary elections d. holding conventions e. defining the party policy agenda
In the U.S. case, are actors such as the president and the Congress considered to be institutional veto players or partisan veto players?
A. institutional veto players B. partisan veto players
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A. per curiam B. stare decisis C. coram nobis D. amicus curiae
Judicial independence is derived from the
a. British system of courts b. colonists' need to ensure that judges were not accountable to a sovereign c. Connecticut compromise d. newly independent states following the European court system model