In 2011, more than one thousand demonstrators including leading environmentalist Bill McKibben were arrested for sitting for two weeks in front of the White House to express opposition to the Keystone Pipeline permit. Their actions are a form of
a. aggressive participation.
b. violent participation.
c. civil disobedience.
d. social responsibility.
e. nonviolent resistance.
C
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In Federalist No. 10, how did James Madison propose to overcome the problem of factions?
a. by banning the formation of interest groups b. by discouraging citizens from expressing their political views in public c. by adopting a system of direct democracy d. by adopting a system of representative government
With the demise of the Soviet Union and the post-Cold War changes in the international system, the United States' employment of containment as its guiding foreign policy principle
a. is no longer as relevant. b. is still as relevant as in the past, because a new Soviet Union might form in the very near future. c. is still relevant since it can now be applied to the communist nations of Latin America. d. will now be applied exclusively to China and North Korea. e. will be applied to all states of the international system.