"Three strikes and you're out" policies try to:
A. combat police corruption.
B. remove incompetent or corrupt judges from the bench.
C. keep career criminals in prison.
D. eliminate disruptive behavior from courtrooms.
Answer: C
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The purpose of checks and balances is to ensure that
a. the government remains solvent. b. national laws always supercede conflicting state laws. c. no branch of government becomes too powerful. d. large states never dominate small states. e. the executive branch dominates over the other branches.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Representation is only possible in democratic countries. 2. Authoritarian systems are generally uniform because they are by definition nondemocratic. 3. Countries that have elections to determine political leaders or representative are democratic. 4. If Doorenspleet’s reassessment of Huntington’s waves of democratization is taken into account, countries like Switzerland and Australia would still count as “first wave” democracies. 5. Evidence from contemporary measures of democracy suggests that authoritarian regimes are no less stable than democracies nowadays.