The formal declaration by the appropriate congressional committee that a certain amount of funding may be made available to an agency is called
A. authorization.
B. appropriation.
C. allocation.
D. reconciliation.
E. consolidation.
Answer: A
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A) It allows special interests to frustrate efforts to solve national problems. B) Law enforcement and justice may be administered unevenly. C) The system may serve as a mask for privilege and economic and racial discrimination. D) All of the above. E) It is practiced in every modern industrialized country.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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a. the support of the nation's leading newspapers b. the spread of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian principles of democracy c. the spread of public schools and increased rates of literacy d. the growing hostility between North and South in the years preceding the Civil War
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