Bank and corporation taxes have become the biggest single source of state revenues

Vice President Joe Biden took office promising to ________

a. shrink the office of vice president to an advisory role to the president b. expand the office to include oversight of homeland security c. prosecute former Vice President Cheney for his support of torture d. spend his time presiding over the Senate e. run a separate "shadow operation"

Applying constructivist social theory to international relations, Wendt concludes that

a. friendship between two states is impossible unless one is clearly superior in power to the other. b. friendship and enmity in international relations depend on how states view each other, not on the objective threat that states might pose for each other. c. enmity is the defining characteristic of international affairs and that true friendship between states cannot be achieved. d. friendship between states is only possible when two sides are evenly matched. e. enmity and friendship between states is equally apportioned making it difficult to determine power bases.