Answer: the FEC exist to to administer such reform efforts as limiting campaign contributions, facilitating disclosure of campaign contributions and overseeing public funding of presidential elections.
Answer: portraying religious leaders
Explanation: Renaissance artists would portray religious figures such as Jesus and Mary, but used backgrounds in Greece and Rome. They also painted well known people of the day that had individual achievements.
Answer:
An example of a president's involvement in civic life is throwing the first pitch at a baseball game.
Explanation:
First of all, let's see all the answers a) is wrong because it is a message the president has to give to the congress of the United States and it is a task considered in his duties as president.
Second, b) is correct because throwing the first pitch at a baseball game is not an activity considered into his presidential duties or responsibilities.
Third, c) is incorrect because even though it doesn't have the presidential duties involved in it. It does require him or her to adopt a formal posture in the camera and be prepared for the topics because as a president he or she has to preserve his or her presidential image. The president is not allowed to behave inappropriately. It is a leadership role and it is required to behave with high moral standards.
Fourth, d) appointing an ambassador is incorrect because it forms part of his presidential duties and responsibilities.