Which response best reflects the dilemma of "pork" in legislation?
a. Programmatic requests are beneficial to taxpayers but detrimental to reelection.
b. Programmatic requests favor federal employees at the expense of state employees.
c. Programmatic requests favor one district at the expense of American taxpayers generally.
d. Programmatic requests are always wasteful expenditures but are useful to politicians.
c
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The 2003 affirmative action cases of Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger came to the Supreme Court from which state?
a. Maine b. Michigan c. Minnesota d. Missouri
According to James Madison, the creation of a large and diverse republic would
a. likely result in the tyranny of the majority over the minority. b. likely result in extreme fragmentation because of the large number of potential minority factions. c. make it more difficult to achieve a politics of the common good. d. help control the excesses of majority faction.