The federal government's legislative powers ______.
A. originate in Article I of the Constitution
B. are lodged in a unicameral legislature
C. can only be limited by the Supreme Court using their power of judicial review
D. do not extend to declaring war or settling standards for weights and measures
Answer: A. originate in Article I of the Constitution
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a. The poorer countries are always unfairly burdened with enforcement while wealthy countries are free to violate agreements. b. Democracies take too long to make domestic policy changes leading to a break down of the agreement for less democratic nations. c. The demands for individual countries are weak because individual leaders want to remain in office for as long as possible. d. Deep agreements cost too much to carry out at this time but future technological advances will lower costs very soon.
To help get his New Deal programs past a skeptical Supreme Court, Franklin D. Roosevelt
a. scaled back his New Deal initiatives. b. enacted the programs through executive orders rather than through legislation. c. proposed increasing the size of the Supreme Court. d. fired five justices and replaced them with justices who were sympathetic to the New Deal. e. created chancery courts with jurisdiction that included all New Deal initiatives.
__________ is the term for a participatory, decentralized form of self-managed socialism supported in France
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Early polling on political candidates is important because
a. candidates who are ahead early in the polls go on to win. b. polling separates viable from nonviable nominees, affecting volunteers and donations. c. polling tells us what sort of campaign nominees are going to run. d. candidates join the race later and later to avoid poor early polling results that might give the media a bad impression.