Local legislatures include city councils, county commissioners, and town boards of aldermen but not ...

Local legislatures include city councils, county commissioners, and town boards of aldermen but not school boards, special purpose districts, and authorities.
 
  a. True
  b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

 Q. 2

Although the new American government could have easily been taken over or supplanted, what helped to defuse and prevent these types of conspiracies and cabals?
 
  a. Concern for legitimacy
  b. Concern for constitutionality
  c. Concern for the rule of law
  d. Concern for irony
  e. Concern for liberty

 Q. 3

Which of the following is NOT an example of how the founders intended to make Congress the central branch of government in the U.S. Constitution?
 
  a. By concentrating the most important powers in the U.S. Congress
  b. By relegating to the presidency only a poorly defined administrative role
  c. By granting Congress oversight powers over presidential leadership
  d. By granting both legislative and budgetary powers to Congress
  e. By establishing the requirement that the President present a yearly state of the union address to Congress

 Q. 4

Female mayoral candidates experience more difficulties raising money and gaining newspaper endorsements than male candidates.
 
  a. True
  b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

 Q. 5

What did Thomas Jefferson believe was the responsibility of government to those it governed?
 
  a. To avoid corruption at all costs
  b. To maintain a strong military
  c. To conform to the will of the majority
  d. To protect the needs of the minority
  e. To embrace democracy

 Q. 6

Congress can override a presidential veto by a
 
  a. simple majority vote (over 50) in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
  b. two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
  c. super-majority (75) vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
  d. simple majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate but only if the Supreme Court agrees.
  e. super-majority (90) majority in either the House of Representatives or the Senate.

 Q. 7

The increased success of blacks in mayoral elections has led some observers to talk of deracialization, or the deemphasis of race as a campaign issue to attract white voters.
 
  a. True
  b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false