Gridiron cities promote communal lifestyles

All of the following are tools that Congress uses to "check" the executive branch EXCEPT

A. congressional investigations. B. budgetary appropriations. C. confirmation hearings. D. legislative veto. E. congressional hearings.

The statement, "Germany is relatively wealthy and its citizens are well-educated, so it must be a democracy," is consistent with __________

A) modernization theory B) classical theory C) rational-choice theory D) Marxist theory