According to the Gallup poll, ____________ is considered the greatest threat to American democracy by the masses.
a. economic crises c. big business
b. Big Government d. labor unions
Question -2-In the Nixon Tapes Case of 1974 (United States v. Nixon) the Supreme Court ruled in effect that
a. the President's claim of executive privilege as a justification for withholding subpoenaed information from the grand jury and special prosecutor violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
b. the President's claim of executive privilege can never be used as a basis for refusing to provide information requested by a grand jury.
c. the President, like other Watergate coconspirators, should have been indicted before the tapes were subpoenaed.
d. any presidential assertion of executive privilege must prevail over ordinary considerations of the criminal process.
Question -3-In 2010, the top 1.2 of wealth-holders in the United States owned about _____________ of all net worth.
a. 20 percent c. 50 percent
b. 40 percent d. 75 percent
Question -4-Edmund Burke's belief that government should not attempt to change society, but that government should merely reflect changes that have already taken place in society helped shape this theoretical movement.
a. Classical liberalism
b. Modern liberalism
c. Marxism
d. Traditional conservatism
e. Feminism
Question -5-In an episode that became known as the Saturday Night Massacre, President Nixon fired Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Assistant Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, both of whom refused to follow the President's order to dismiss Watergate special prosecutor _____.
a. Robert H. Bork
b. William H. Rehnquist
c. Fred Dalton Thompson
d. Archibald Cox
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