In 1949, which law increased state funding and established the Texas Education Agency (TEA), which carries out the state's educational program?
A) No Child Left Behind
B) Gilmer Aikin
C) Top 10 percent plan
D) Texas Education Agency
Q. 2The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which prohibited national government recognition of same-sex marriage and allowed states to deny same-sex marriages performed in other states, was challenged by critics as a violation of
A) the full faith and credit clause.
B) the supremacy clause.
C) the necessary and proper clause.
D) the commerce clause.
Q. 3The most costly service in Texas is
A) health and human services.
B) education.
C) transportation.
D) crime and punishment.
Q. 4Which situation would be covered by the full faith and credit clause of the U.S. Constitution?
A) Texas recognizes a Louisiana marriage license.
B) Texas returns a fugitive from Oklahoma.
C) Texas charges out-of-state tuition for a citizen of Iowa attending college in Texas.
D) Texas grants a corporation domiciled in Ohio the privilege of doing business in Texas.
Q. 5Trading votes among legislators, especially to fund local projects to benefit their constituents, is called
A) pork barreling.
B) earmarking.
C) raiding.
D) logrolling.
Q. 6What part of the U.S. Constitution provides that the citizen of one state is entitled to the same privileges and immunities of a citizen of another state?
A) Article V
B) Article IV
C) the Fifth Amendment
D) the Tenth Amendment
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