Which of the following was the reason for ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment (1913), which transformed the Senate from an elective to an appointive position?
a. state legislatures' gridlock
b. corrupting influences in state legislatures
c. perception of senators as protective of party bosses and corporate elites
d. changes in American political culture in the latter half of the nineteenth century
e. All of the above
Question -2-In H. P. Hood and Sons v. Du Mond, the Supreme Court invalidated a New York administrative decision that denied Hood and Sons, a Massachusetts corporation, permission to increase from three to four the number of milk processing plants it operated in New York on the grounds of the _____ Commerce Clause.
a. isolated
b. dormant
c. interactive
d. active
Question -3-The __________________ is based on the Supreme Court ruling that the media must have a reckless disregard if reporting unfavorable news.
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Question -4-Which political era (18241854) was marked with the expansion of democratic rights and started the trend away from political appointments and toward the use of elections to select public officials?
a. Jacksonian democracy
b. Jeffersonian democracy
c. The golden democratic
d. The enlightenment
e. None of the above
Question -5-In Kassel v. Consolidated Freightways Corporation (1981), the Court struck down an Iowa statute prohibiting the use of 65-foot-long double-trailer trucks on its highways because it violated the
a. Commerce Clause
b. Full Faith and Credit Clause
c. Supremacy Clause
d. None of the above is true.
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