Which of the following has as its primary responsibility conducting surveillance about the inner workings of countries across the world?
a. the Department of Defense
b. the secretary of state
c. the Central Intelligence Agency
d. the World Trade Organization
e. the Marshall Plan
c
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Which hypothesis is directly tested in an experiment?
A) one specific confounding variable hypothesis B) all of the confounding variables hypotheses C) the research hypothesis D) Both B and C
A new state is admitted to the Union
A) by Congress. B) by a resolution adopted by two-thirds of the existing state legislatures. C) by presidential decree seconded by a majority of the Supreme Court. D) by a majority of delegates attending a special convention called to admit new states to the Union. E) by a unanimous vote of the Supreme Court.
In Wisconsin, the way the state has balanced its budget led to large protests. Certain interest groups claimed that they have borne an unfair amount of the financial burden. These citizens are claiming the budget lacks ______, one of the criteria used to evaluate policies.
A. effectiveness B. efficiency C. equity D. administrative feasibility
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The central purpose of representative government is stated in the Declaration of Independence. 2. As a rule, the protection of civil rights requires positive action on the part of the government. 3. The piece of legislation that most impacted the civil rights of disabled individuals was Section VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 4. The cases included in arguments for Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, dealt with whether it was constitutionally permissible to legally segregate African American and white children in public schools on the basis of race. 5. The main worry of Thurgood Marshall and his team in the Brown v. Board case was that the Supreme Court might disagree with the argument that African American students had been treated unfairly.