Gibbons v. Ogden increased the power of the national government by interpreting very broadly the ______.

a. federal police power
b. congressional power to declare war
c. commerce clause of the Constitution
d. necessary and proper clause of the Constitution
e. none of the these

c. commerce clause of the Constitution

Political Science

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Internal validity is the power of the research design to

a. isolate the dependent variable as being responsible for any experimental effects. b. isolate the independent variable as being responsible for any experimental effects. c. decrease the likelihood of statistical variance being too high. d. decrease the likelihood of statistical variance being too low.

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The so-called “Connecticut Compromise” at the Constitutional Convention, which settled on a bicameral legislature, was primarily a compromise between 

a. small and large states.  b. rich and poor states.  c. slave and free states.  d. frontier and coastal states. 

Political Science