The rise of Japan's economic power in the 1970s was used by realists to bolster claims that realism still applied to the contemporary world

The popularly elected president is

A. an American invention. B. common in European democracies. C. a key feature of parliamentarian systems. D. a powerful figure in the Japanese government. E. the same as a prime minister.

Why did the founding fathers make it difficult for the Constitution to be amended?

a. They did not think that people would want to amend it in the first place. b. They believed that the Constitution should be amended only in the most dire of times. c. They did not want the integrity of the Constitution weakened. d. They thought the Constitution was fine as-is and would never need to be amended.