The term backbenchers refers to
a. members of parliament who unseat an incumbent.
b. elderly life peers in the House of Lords.
c. members of the minority party.
d. members of the governing party who have no government office and rank-and-file members of the opposition.
e. the shadow cabinet of the opposition party.
d
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Which of the following is true regarding the online database PsycINFO?
a. it allows electronic access to full-text psychological journal articles published since 1980 b. it can be accessed through Google scholar c. similar to Psychological Abstracts, it publishes summaries of psychologically relevant scholarly literature d. because of its technical nature its use is really beyond the ability of most undergraduate students
Theoretically, the colonies were governed by England, but the colonists were able to exercise a large measure of self-government because the
A) British crown had little interest in any activities in the colonies. B) distance between mother country and the colonies allowed more freedom. C) British were more concerned with colonies elsewhere. D) colonial representatives in Parliament had lobbied for more freedom. E) British had not issued a charter to each of the colonies, thus allowing greater individual rights.