Prompted by the ____________________, the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Ans: Vietnam War
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The process of the national government claiming a power and preventing the states from acting in that area under the supremacy clause is called
a. acquisition. b. attribution. c. contraction. d. allowance. e. preemption.
Suppose a company wants to build a factory that will dump pollutants into the river. The company needs certain permissions from the government and wants tax breaks because they are bringing in jobs. The community is very much against this new environmental hazard and protests loudly. Many citizens are calling their state and federal legislators to say they don’t want the factory to be built. If the neopluralist philosophy holds true, which of the following is likely to happen?
a. Because business interests are privileged, the company will receive the permissions and tax breaks it is seeking. b. The citizens will soon tire of arguing against the inevitable and will reconcile themselves to the factory. c. To effect this change, these citizens will need to band together with a large, wealthy environmental lobbying group. d. Because the public cares so much about the issue, politicians may be reluctant to defy their constituents
Which of the following is true of the Supreme Court case ofMcCulloch v. Maryland(1819)?
A. It involved the full faith and credit clause on the issue of the legitimacy of gay marriage in the state of Maryland. B. It involved the question of taxes imposed by the federal government on the bank of Maryland. C. It involved both the necessary and proper clause and the supremacy clause. D. It dealt with the issue of whether the national government had the exclusive power to regulate commerce involving more than one state. E. It dealt with the issue of how the commerce clause should be defined.
The “fiscal mismatch” is responsible for all but one of the following trends since 1960:
a. increased intergovernmental transfers. b. increased importance of fiscal federalism. c. increased indirect control of state and local affairs by the national government. d. increased direct control of state and local affairs by the national government.