1. Both parties engage in and benefit from gerrymandering, the practice of redrawing district lines for partisan gain.
2. Both parties also thwart efforts
to combat gerrymandering, such as amendments making
gerrymandering illegal and the adoption of independent
redistricting commissions.
3. At the federal level, both parties benefit from congressional mandated single-member districts.
4. Both parties control the process of formally electing the president.
5. Despite consistent polling showing that voters are unhappy with their limited choice of candidates and want more options in general elections.
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A. Slaves were needed to defend plantations against invaders.
B. Slavery boosted the reputations of Southern landowners.
C. Slaves could be traded with other nations for money.
D. Slavery helped slave families stay together on plantations.
E. Slaves were required to grow crops on plantations.
Answer:
E. Slaves were required to grow crops on plantations.
Explanation:
Pro-slavery Americans claimed that slaves were essential to the supply of agricultural products in the country. This is because it was the slaves who did the whole process of sowing, maintaining, harvesting, processing and distributing agricultural products from southern crops. These people who defended slavery, claimed that freeing the slaves would dissolve all this labor and block the productivity of the national agricultural sector.
Answer:
Amsterdam Treaty
Explanation:
The Amsterdam Treaty was signed on 2 October 1997 according to which the Member States decided to engage in broad policy and institutional changes. The Treaty authorized member states to increase certain powers from national governments to the European Parliament, covering diverse issues like legislating on foreign and security policy, adopting civil and criminal laws and immigration laws. It paved the way for implementing institutional changes to accommodate its expansion because of the new member nations joining the EU.
Answer: Option (D)
Explanation:
The contingency model given by the psychologist Fred Fiedler is referred to as the contingency theory that is mainly involved with efficacy and performance of a leader in a business or an organization. Under this theory of leadership, it is stated that the organization leader’s efficacy is mostly contingent upon the circumstances i.e. how their leadership approach tends to match to these circumstances.