The solicitor general decides what cases the government will appeal from lower courts and personally approves every case the government presents to the Supreme Court.

Which of the following comprises nearly two-thirds of the U.S. defense budget?

a. salaries b. health care c. training d. private business contracts

When a military forcibly removes the existing regime and establishes a new one, this is referred to as

a. coup d’etat b. militia uprising c. revolution d. civil war