What is the role of a state's attorney general?
A. represents the state before the courts
B. helps the governor run the state
C. develops fiscal policies for the state
D. supervises state elections
E. acts as the guardian of the state's money
A
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a. a political campaign calling potential voters to provide negative information about the opposition candidate in an attempt to influence voters' decisions b. an elected official believing that term limits for members of Congress is the most important issue to voters because he saw a poll indicating that 78 percent of Texans support term limits c. a survey asking the same questions in multiple successive weeks d. drawing a probability sample of Texans and concluding that most Texans support gay marriage even though the margin of error in the poll was plus or minus five
The governor's budget effectively sets the legislative agenda at the beginning of each session because
a. it frames the important policy issues and attaches price tags to them. b. once a governor sets the budget, legislatures have no control in a majority of states. c. this informal power is greater than the formal powers of the legislative veto. d. in most states, if the legislature does not adopt the governor's budget, the governor can recess the legislativesession.