In a ______ system, the mayor has a largely ceremonial position.

Texas has tended to focus primarily on registering lobbyists as a means of which of the following?

a. helping interest groups to nominate candidates for elections b. eliminating the influence of the interest groups over the policy-making process c. controlling the actions of the legislators d. controlling interest group actions

The __________ states that the right "to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

a. Fourteenth Amendment b. Fifteenth Amendment c. Nineteenth Amendment. This amendment gave women the right to vote. d. Twenty-Second Amendment