Which of the following is a responsibility of the Speaker of the House?

Which of the following is true of the relationship between democracy and gender equality?

A. Gender equality seldom impacts whether citizens tend to support democracy or not. B. Democracy asserts that everyone should have equal rights and be held equal before the law. C. No empirical evidence exists for the claim that democracy is associated with greater levels of gender equality. D. Democratic ideals and democratic performance are exclusive features of the Western countries of the world. E. Socioeconomic change and democracy are two mutually-exclusive factors affecting gender issues.

Territorial autonomy means

a. a people have complete sovereignty over a certain territory. b. a people live in close physical proximity, allowing them to have a relatively closed and interdependent system of relations among their individual members. c. a state has the capacity to produce effective government policy and to penetrate society to extract resources to fund government programs, and to protect the state against internal instability and external threat. d. the international community has accepted a group's right to rule a certain area. e. a people control much of the daily happenings of a particular area of a county, but they surrender authority over some matters (e.g., national defense) to the country's central government.