What does “the power of the purse” refer to?

a. the position of Secretary of the Treasury 
b. the buying power of the country’s population 
c. Congress’s power to levy, collect, and appropriate taxes 
d. the nation’s productivity measured in dollars 
 

c. Congress’s power to levy, collect, and appropriate taxes 

Political Science

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While occupational differences are narrower than in the 1950s, there are still substantial differences between

A. working and upper classes. B. businesspeople and artisans. C. the very rich and everyone else. D. middle and working classes. E. managers and laborers.

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Which of the following is superior to the others?

a. the Executive Branch b. the Legislative Branch c. the Judicial Branch d. the U.S. Constitution

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