Prior to the health care reform that was passed in 2010, the government’s role in health care was limited to ______.

Among the goals of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 were

a. to increase the technical nature of personnel administration. b. to reduce flexibility in hiring and firing to agencies. c. to create a more rigid classification system for senior executives. d. to restore the merit principle which had gotten too bureaucratic.

Judicial federalism is the idea that the courts determine the boundaries of ______ relations.

a. state–federal b. local–state c. local–federal d. federal–international