If Americans wanted Congress to quit creating pork barrel projects (also known as earmarks), they would have to ______.
a. insist that their individual representatives be more responsive to local needs
b. pay closer attention to what their representatives are doing in Congress
c. reward their representatives more for engaging in national lawmaking and less for acts of representation
d. give more money to congressional campaigns
e. give more support to incumbents
c. reward their representatives more for engaging in national lawmaking and less for acts of representation
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The fact that the United States has different tax rates for different levels of income relates to which phrase from the chapter?
A) Politics is "the master science" B) The Constitution is the crown jewel of the Enlightenment C) "Man is by nature a political animal" D) Politics is the study of "who gets what"
When presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debated in 1960, those people who heard about the debate by _____ thought Kennedy had won while people who learned about the debate through other media thought Nixon had won
A) watching it on television B) listening to it on the radio C) ?reading about it in the newspaper D) talking with family and friends E) listening to their state representative