The Twenty-Seventh Amendment prevents lawmakers from:
a. Accepting gifts from campaign donors
b. receiving a pay raise that they voted for in their current term.
c. needing to pay income taxes on their congressional salaries
d. being convicted of felonies while in office
Ans: b. receiving a pay raise that they voted for in their current term.
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A. policy formulation B. policy implementation C. policy evaluation D. agenda setting
In addition to excluding African Americans, the White primary effectively disenfranchised African Americans because of which of the following?
A. There were rules in place that prohibited anyone who had not voted in the primary from voting in the general election. B. The South was solidly Democratic, so winning the Democratic primary was the same as winning the election. C. The South was solidly Republican, so winning the Republican primary was the same as winning the election. D. Citizens who did not vote in the primary were forced to pay a large fine in order to vote in the general election.