In the late 1980s, what caused the Rehnquist Court to start to restrict Congress's ability to regulate various areas of the economy?
a. a constitutional amendment giving the president primary authority to craft a budget
b. changes in the composition of the Supreme Court
c. legislation increasing the size of the Supreme Court
d. the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision
Answer: b
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The dependency theory states that
A) poor countries depend on industrialized countries in the current economic system. B) industrialized countries benefit from the current capitalist economic system at the expense of the poor. C) industrialized and poor countries equally depend on one another. D) None of the above
In 1857, the Supreme Court sided with the states’ rights supporters, declaring in __________ that Congress had no authority to regulate slavery in the territories.
A) Dred Scott v. Sandford
B) Prigg v. Pennsylvania
C) Brown v. Board of Education
D) Plessy v. Ferguson
E) ?Gibbons v. Ogden