The U.S. Senate plays a pivotal role in the selection of cabinet officers and federal judges. What is this role?
A) The senate recommends all appointees to the president.
B) Each senator must be consulted by the president during the confirmation process.
C) The president is required to appoint any candidate recommended by the senate.
D) The president chooses the appointee but the senate must confirm that appointment before the candidate assumes the office.
E) The senate recommends the nominee and the president confirms the appointment.
D
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William Penn's colony's long-term survival has been attributed to its:
a. Mineral wealth b. Natural location c. Religious freedom d. Ethnic and religious diversity
Which of the following scenarios best illustrates the protection dynamic of alliances?
a. A small state is threatened by a rival and forms an alliance with a more powerful state to gain its help. b. A small state realizes that opposing a more powerful state would be futile, so it forms an alliance with that state to avoid conflict. c. A small state forms an alliance with a more powerful state in order to share in the benefits of the larger state’s expansion of power. d. Several small states form an alliance to counterbalance the power of a single powerful rival.