George H. W. Bush's plan to bring down the federal budget deficit was unsuccessful because his plan __________
a. was never palatable to Congress
b. coincided with the beginning of a recession
c. included new taxes but no spending cuts
d. included spending cuts but no new taxes
e. did not include new taxes or spending cuts
B
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The Edict of Nantes
A. destroyed Calvinism in France. B. legitimized Calvinist worship and permitted Calvinists to engage in politics in France. C. outlawed Calvinism in France. D. permitted Henry IV to continue the French wars of religion. E. declared Lutheranism and Anglicanism to be heresies.
Eighteenth-century monarchs increasingly
A) followed pacifist, “rational” foreign policies. B) sought to stem the spread of the Enlightenment. C) changed their public image from that of a self-aggrandizing absolutist to that of a diligent servant of the state. D) turned the governing of their states over to their ministers, while they pursued a life of opulent leisure. E) saw themselves as products of divine right.
What is the practice of buying and selling church offices called?
A) usury B) simony C) saeculum D) regula
From a Foucauldian perspective, people with disabilities live immersed in a ______.
A. constant state of being judged by others B. pathological discourse of disability, as an object of disciplinary power C. state of always being separate from the rest of the “normal” world D. marginalized and seen as something less