Typically, an independent regulatory agency is responsible for
a. monitoring the actions of the cabinet department heads.
b. national defense-related legislation.
c. monitoring the lower courts.
d. a specific type of public policy.
e. monitoring the actions of Congress.
Which of the following was a major foreign policy development during the Vietnam
War?
a. Another Cuban Missile Crisis of sorts involving China and the United States
b. An improvement in U.S. foreign policy
c. A new interest in the balance of power between Congress and the president on
foreign policy questions
d. The creation of the U.S. Navy SEALS
e. Border clashes that almost resulted in full-blown nuclear war between the USSR and
Iran
Most American law is based on
a. the writings of Friedrich Engels.
b. the ideas of Thomas Paine.
c. Roman custom and tradition.
d. the English legal system.
e. the Bible.
The Second Continental Congress
a. established an army.
b. signed a treaty with Great Britain that avoided armed conflict.
c. signed a treaty with France to declare war with the colonies on Great Britain.
d. created a unitary government in the United States.
e. brought the remaining seven colonies into its organization.
What characterizes an opinion per curiam (“by the court”)?
a. When the Supreme Court’s written opinion is unsigned
b. When a ruling is invalidated
c. When an opinion is ruled temporary, pending future decisions
d. When an opinion is valid only for academic use
e. When an opinion is an indication that the Court plans to review the case at a later
date
Critics of immigration fear that immigrants to the United States may
a. take jobs away from American workers.
b. offset the low birthrate and aging population.
c. expand the workforce and help support, through their taxes, government programs
such as Medicare.
d. become Americanized.
e. pay into the Social Security program.
A republic is
a. a conservative form of government.
b. a direct democracy.
c. a government in which sovereign power rests with the people, not a monarch.
d. a totalitarian state.
e. a government in which the people directly elect the president.
The dominant culture in the United States has it roots in
a. American Indian civilization.
b. Babylonian civilization.
c. Norse civilization.
d. Eastern European civilization.
e. Western European civilization.
Governments have authority
a. when they are first organized.
b. when they are popular.
c. when they are internationally recognized.
d. when they have the right and power to enforce their decisions.
e. when people choose to obey the laws they create.
According to the Thirteenth Amendment,
a. neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States.
b. the states must alter their constitutions to end slavery by making the children of
slaves free, while allowing slavery for existing slaves.
c. all persons “will be treated as total equals from this date forward.”
d. slavery would continue for twenty years, at which time it would be ended.
e. the importation of slaves shall be immediately banned, but slave owners may keep
their existing slaves.