(01.04 MC)Which example demonstrates how the Constitution addressed a major weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

(03.02 MC)McDonald v. Chicago (2010) primarily interpreted which Constitutional amendment?

(01.05 MC)Which governmental body can initiate impeachment proceedings to check elected officials?

(01.06 MC)Which Constitutional clause would prevent states from charging higher property taxes to non-residents?

(02.01 MC)”It has been much urged that a bank will give great convenience in the collection of taxes…yet the Constitution allows those (powers) which are ‘necessary,’ not those which are merely ‘convenient’…there is not one (power) which ingenuity may torture into convenience, in some instance or other, to someone of so long a list of enumerated powers, and reduce the whole to one power….Therefore it was that the Constitution restrained them to the necessary means; that is to say, to those means without which the grant of the power would be nugatory (useless).”—Thomas JeffersonWhich constitutional concept was Jefferson challenging in this excerpt?

(02.01 MC)”After a spirited debate, the House passed, by a 35 to 21 majority, the Excise Whiskey Tax. The measure levied a federal tax on domestic and imported alcohol, earmarked to offset a portion of the federal government’s recent assumption of state debts. Southern and western farmers, whose grain crop was a chief ingredient in whiskey, loudly protested the tax.”—From the U.S. House of Representatives, “History, Art & Archives”Which Congressional power is illustrated in this historical excerpt?

(03.05 MC)© Cornell Law School 2010What reasoning could explain why only three amendments were fully incorporated rather than all eight shown?

(02.05 MC)Which statement reflects a typical criticism of judicial restraint?

(04.04 MC)”Election pollsters sample only a minuscule portion of the electorate, not uncommonly something on the order of a couple of thousand people out of the more than two hundred million Americans who are eligible to vote. The promise of this work is that the sample is exquisitely representative. But the lower the response rate the harder and more expensive it becomes to realize that promise, which requires…calling many more people….Pollster.com’s Mark Blumenthal has recalled how, in the nineteen-eighties, when the response rate at the firm where he was working had fallen to about sixty percent, people in his office said, “What will happen when it’s only twenty? We won’t be able to be in business!” A typical response rate is now in the single digits.”—From Stefaan Verhulst in GovLab Digest, 2015Which polling error is highlighted in this passage?

(02.06 MC)Which statement accurately describes how the Department of Labor implements new regulations?