Politics of the United States Questions
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Courts that hear all kinds of cases are known as courts of
What Supreme Court case made evidence obtained without a proper search warrant inadmissible in a court of law?
___ want the government to protect social traditions but not to run the economy.
Before the passage of the 24th Amendment some votes were required to pay a poll tax to vote.
Parties can be one of three types: Principle, Issue or Election oriented. What type are American parties?
___ want both economic and social equality and a big government to enforce it.
___ want both social and economic freedom and a very small government.
True or False: In order to run for President, a person has to be a natural-born citizen and have resided in the United States for no fewer than 14 years.
Originally the Bill of Rights only protected Americans from the actions of the federal government.
How many years does an elected House of Representative member serve each election?
The Virginia Plan based government representation on WHAT?
Both the House and Senate propose and vote on bills in basically the same way. What is really the only difference in the Senate when it comes to debating a bill?
The right to be protected from cruel or unusual punishment is found in the
____________________ is the use of programs and policies designed to assist groups that have historically been subject to discrimination.
Which of the following should not be a part of a scientific poll design?
What is the minimum age that a person must be in order to be eligible to run for president?
Madeleine Albright was the first woman ___ of the United States.
What do you call an official government forgiveness of a crime?
The number of House of Representatives members each state receives is based on population. Each state is guaranteed to have at least how many representatives?
Amendment ___ No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.