Although the number of women in Congress is not representative of the population as a whole, which of the following statements is descriptive of women representatives?
a. State legislatures have relatively more women representatives than does Congress.
b. More women occupy seats in the Senate than in the House.
c. The low numbers of women voters are responsible for the lack of women in government office.
d. The framers of the Constitution wanted to include women its wording, but the culture of the time would not allow it.
a
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The doctrine that holds that the Supreme Court should actively check the other branches of government when they exceed their authority is known as which of the following?
A. Judicial restraint B. Strict construction C. Judicial activism D. Broad construction E. Conservative activism
Which of the following explanations of the democratic peace is from the liberal perspective?
a. Democracies do not go to war with one another because they trade more with one another. b. Democracies do not go to war with one another because they share common domestic norms. c. Democracies do not go to war with one another because they successfully use balance-of-power politics to avoid war. d. Democracies do not go to war with one another because they belong to the same alliances counterbalancing or fighting other alliances.