In The Civil Rights Cases (1883), the Supreme Court ______________ the key provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, ruling that the Fourteenth Amendment limited congressional action to the prohibition of official state-sponsored discrimination as distinct from discrimination practiced by privately owned places of public accommodation

The development of abstract, general information comes about through

A) a renunciation of practical, everyday operations. B) a rejection of craftsmanship and artisanship. C) a long involvement in using empirical skills and concrete manipulations of the physical environment. D) the study of abstract subjects such as astronomy and biology.

Which of the following helps explain the difficulty in solving the long-term debt problem in the United States?

a. The decline in social spending has reduced the level of economic growth in the United States. b. The Democratic Party has been captured by special interest groups that benefit from high levels of debt. c. The Republican Party refuses to reduce the level of taxes that restrict economic growth in society. d. The rise of extreme partisanship in recent years has made compromise in this area highly unlikely.