What new rule was put in place with passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996?
a. Recipients must submit to a drug test before they are granted benefits.
b. Recipients must enter a work training program within two months of receiving initial benefits.
c. Recipients are subject to a two-year lifetime limit on public assistance.
d. Recipients must get jobs within six months of receiving initial benefits.
Answer: b
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a. more constrained, largely due to increasing national educational standards. b. less constrained, largely due to increasing federal assistance. c. more constrained, largely due to the successful political lobbying of teacher unions. d. less constrained, largely due to bureaucratic and institutional changes.
The Federalists passed the Judiciary Act of 1801, which accomplished which of the following?
a. It fixed the number of justices of the Supreme Court at nine to ensure that the new President would be able to mold the federal judiciary. b. It made an advisory council to the federal judiciary comprising all the chief justices of the state supreme courts. c. It tied judges’ salaries to the number of cases filed. d. It sharply raised the number of district and appellate courts and thereby created new judgeships for the outgoing Federalists to fill.