Community courts, domestic violence courts, and veterans courts are all examples of ______ courts.

Which of the following is true of “professional” legislatures?

States with a ______ system have administrations where the various offices are elected, and the governor is one office among many.

Despite lobbying by the bail bond industry, cash bail in many states has been replaced with ______.

The degree of flexibility in education that states can give to localities depends greatly on scale.

In ward or district elections, the advantage of organizing these elections on the basis of geography is that ______.

Increases in salaries and staff sizes by legislators are viewed by the public as ______.

One of the paradoxes of local government is that, although it is the level of government that citizens support the most, it is also the level of government in which they participate the least.

In recent years, integrated family courts have worked to serve the needs of families by adopting what policy?

Dillon’s Rule is built on the legal principle of ______, which means “outside one’s powers.”