Chief Justice John Marshall believed in a(n) ______ construction of the Constitution, meaning that constitutional provisions have broad and open-ended meanings

a. flexible
b. strict
c. loose
d. living
e. elastic

ANS: C

Political Science

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a. adversarial b. inquisitorial c. dual court d. common law

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The effort to secure civil rights for African Americans rested on which of the following?

A. government creating the right set of rules B. the national veto of state laws C. the simple ideas set forth by the Antifederalists D. configuring politics to allow society's competing interests to check one another

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