How can Congress respond when the Supreme Court exercises the power of judicial review? Provide examples to illustrate your answer.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers vary. Possible answers include doing nothing and ignoring the ruling, amending the statute in question to comply, repealing the law and passing (or not) new legislation, and seeking a constitutional amendment. Students could provide a variety of examples illustrating these approaches, such as reconstruction amendments in response to Dred Scott or continued use of the legislative veto after Chadha.
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The concentric zone hypothesis suggests that
a. cities grow outward in a series of concentric rings over time. b. cities form a circle made of several pie-shaped sectors. c. wealth decreases as one moves away from the city's center. d. competition is denser in the central business district.
Which statement about American political parties is false?
A) A person's party identification, once developed, tends to endure. B) The number of Democrats in the electorate consistently exceeded the number of Republicans until the mid-1990s. C) Independents outnumber Democratic Party and Republican Party identifiers, combined, in the U.S. electorate. D) The proportion of Democrats in the electorate has shrunk over time, to the benefit of both Republicans and Independents. E) Fifty percent of children adopt the same party affiliation as their parents.