Which amendment provided the Equal Protection Clause to the Constitution?

President George W. Bush proposed which of the following in order to shore up U.S. social welfare programs?

a. To privatize Social Security b. To lengthen the eligibility period for TANF funds c. To increase progressive taxation d. To eliminate unemployment insurance payouts

Old institutionalism studied politics by

a. examining how institutions limit the options of individuals seeking to make efficient and effective policy. b. looking at how political institutions reflect society's underlying culture rather than as the product of rational choices in the pursuit of increased efficiency. c. focusing on the broader process of translating political inputs into political outputs. d. examining how political institutions determine the choices that government officials make. e. focusing on descriptions of formal institutions of a country's political system like its constitution.