The detention of John Merryman was an important case in presidential power because of President Lincoln’s assertion of the power to ______.
a. suspend habeas corpus
b. indiscriminately punish Southern traitors
c. write and enforce bills of attainder
d. command the Union army
a. suspend habeas corpus
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According to Gilpin, the goal of liberal economics is a "Pareto optimum" world, which means __________
a. you can improve one person's position without harming any other person b. each person's position is equal relative to everyone else's c. international economics becomes a zero-sum game d. international economics becomes a constant-sum game
The FBI's annual crime index is derived from
a. victimization surveys. b. the Uniform Crime Report on both violent and property crime. c. data provided by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. d. a summary of state police crime reports.
Campaign contributions that are unregulated by federal or state law are known as
A) hard money. B) referendums. C) mandates. D) soft money. E) initiatives.
In the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) case, the Supreme Court determined that ______.
A. separate but equal public conveniences were constitutionally permissible B. segregated state law schools fell afoul of the Fourteenth Amendment C. gender-segregated public schooling was only permissible under limited circumstances D. grandfather clauses were an unconstitutional way of limiting the franchise