What does the appointment of Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy and his subsequent policy efforts demonstrate?
A) Politicization can help advance an agency's mandate and bureaucratic initiative.
B) Politicization exacerbates the problems of agency drift and slack.
C) Politicization efforts by presidents are never scrutinized or challenged by Congress.
D) Politicization can be a cause for the removal of a political appointee.
A
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What constitutional crisis emerged from Shays's Rebellion?
a. The conflict between farming and manufacturing interests could no longer be controlled. b. The national government intruded too easily into the states' affairs. c. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, lacked the power to confront significant national emergencies. d. The national government, under the Articles of Confederation, was equipped to meet only naval attacks. e. The colonists already had created a new, more effective structure of government.
Local governments
A) are allocated their powers by the President of the United States. B) are allocated their powers by the federal Constitution. C) are legal creatures of the states. D) are allocated their powers by Congress. E) are established by the federal government.