It is hard to get rid of the filibuster because ______.
a. it would require a constitutional amendment
b. both Republicans and Democrats want the opportunity to use it when they are in the minority
c. the president would veto legislation eliminating the filibuster
d. the public favors keeping it
e. the Supreme Court has ruled that the parliamentary procedure to eliminate it is unconstitutional
b. both Republicans and Democrats want the opportunity to use it when they are in the minority
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As discussed in Chapter 4, Tilly argues that states first developed in early modern Europe when rulers (lords, kings, and the like) tried to eliminate or neutralize both internal and external rivals, to protect their own citizens (subjects), and to raise enough revenue to be able to carry out these activities. A key part of Tilly’s argument is that the principal goal of these rulers was to ______.
A. stay in power B. develop a state C. maintain the loyalty of subjects D. develop legitimacy
What does the following describe? "In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently, not culture of the earth, no navigation, nor the use of commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
A. Aristotle's polis. B. Kant's world of the categorical imperative. C. The condition of the Hebrew people in the wilderness. D. Hobbes state of nature. E. Madison's world of factions.