A psychological attachment to one of the main political parties and an orientation mechanism for understanding how to apply one’s beliefs and values to the political world is referred to as

The ____________bars Congress from giving any religion an official status.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

The example of the 1998 Senate Finance Committee hearings on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) illustrates that

A) elected officials have no power to curb bureaucratic abuses. B) the public has no power to curb bureaucratic abuses. C) bureaucratic agencies always work against the public interest. D) if a bureaucratic agency makes life difficult for the voting public, that agency is more likely to be taken to task by elected officials. E) the Supreme Court is willing to intervene in the actions of the federal bureaucracy.