In ________________, the Supreme Court struck down the Helms Amendment to the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, which required cable systems that lease channels to commercial providers of "patently offensive" programming to scramble the signals of those channels and make them available only to subscribers who specifically request access
a. Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium v. Federal Communications Commission (1996)
b. Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation (1978)
c. Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997)
d. None of the above is true.
A
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President Obama's idea of a public option, which was removed from the legislation, was __________
a. "socialized" medicine b. a corporate-run, for-profit health insurance marketplace c. a single, national health insurance system d. a government-run, nonprofit health insurance agency that would compete with private insurers
As part of the struggle for civil rights, legal battles culminated with the Supreme Court decision, ________, which ordered for the desegregation of public schools
A) Dred Scott v. Sanford B) Plessy v. Ferguson C) Reed v. Reed D) Brown v. Board of Education E) Grutter v. Bollinger
Appropriations must never exceed the authorized amounts, but they can be less.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which is a consequence of hyperpluralism?
a. reduced agency budgets b. termination of government programs c. contradictory and confusing policies d. growth in the number of political parties