During the Civil War, President Lincoln suspended the civil liberties of alleged agitators and drafted state militias into national service. He did this using what set of powers that are used during times of national crisis?
A. statutory powers
B. executive privilege
C. executive orders
D. emergency powers
E. inherent powers
Answer: D
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The impressionable years hypothesis states that
A. young people's political attitudes are strongly influenced by what happens in their mid-teens and twenties. B. important electoral years in American history strongly influence voting patterns afterwards. C. children tend to vote as their parents did. D. people's politics change after events that leave an impression on their memories. E. people all become politically active at the same time.
Barbour and Wright state that the probable outcome of an electoral system based on single-member district plurality electoral rules is a ______.
A. two-party system B. vibrant democracy C. multiparty system D. parliamentary system