The ideological cohesion of the parties since the mid-1990s has made it __________
a. harder to sustain a presidential veto
b. harder for the president to persuade the public
c. easier for a president to get his or her way with Congress if the president's party has even very slim majorities in the House and Senate
d. harder to remove a sitting a president
c
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Plato's writings can be considered a source of arguments in favor of authoritarianism because
a. the king had to be a philosopher b. he sets an academic precedent for enlightened or benevolent monarchy c. the guardians are forced to give up their personal wealth for the benefit of the community d. he favored a malicious dictatorial type of rule e. All of the above
The Fourteenth Amendment grants citizens
a. civil rights. b. freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. c. Miranda rights. d. freedom of speech. e. protection from double jeopardy.
Why is the United States a favorite jurisdiction within which to bring cases?
A) It is considered the most just system in the world. B) It is the most effective system in the world. C) It tends to award the largest settlements. D) It insists on having cases brought in the United States.
Liberal theorists argued, prior to World War I, that war seemed obsolete in part because countries could not afford it. Their arguments against war did not stop there, however. Some of their other arguments even won popularity again in the 1970s. What
did these include? a. the idea that changes in the balance of power were never a true cause of conflict between states b. ideas about using smarter diplomatic means of shifting regional balances of power c. the idea that international institutions would come to dominate world politics over time d. arguments involving the increasing economic interdependence of states, and the increasing of transnational social and political ties.