One of the highest levels of public opinion is seen in the beliefs of the American people. In this sense, how is the term beliefs defined?
A) laws and statutes of the American government
B) religious denominational understandings
C) facts that derive from values that people take for granted about the world
D) vague feelings that people perceive as applying to the world at large
E) political orientations and preferences
C
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Which Supreme Court decision did not expand the power of the federal government over the states?
a. Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985) b. South Carolina v. Baker (1988) c. Alaska Department of Environmental Protection v. the EPA (2004) d. Gonzales v. Oregon (2006)
When the organized anti-slavery movement in the United States began in the late 1700s, what was meant by the concept of gradual emancipation?
a. Gradual emancipation was meant to give the freed slaves plenty of time to assimilate into society by gradually releasing them from property status. b. Advocates of gradual emancipation believed that by preventing the extension of slavery to new areas and relocating emancipated slaves outside of the U.S., slavery would eventually die out. c. Gradual emancipation referred to outright abolition of slavery, but only in one state at a time. d. Gradual emancipation meant a quick and decisive abolition of slavery, and was called “progressive” because it indicated an immediate step forward. e. Gradual emancipation meant that the states, due to their inability to eliminate slavery, would surrender sovereignty to the federal government in order to abolish slavery.