21. The oversight responsibility of Congress is
a - relatively easy to carry out.
b - becoming less and less important to the nation.
c - more interesting to most legislators than policy making responsibilities.
d - the task on which legislators spend most of their time.
none of the choices are correct.
26. The Supreme Court has reasoned that a right of privacy is provided by
a -the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
b -the Ninth Amendment, which says that people's rights are not limited to those enumerated in the Constitution.
c - the Tenth Amendment, which reserves to the people and the states those powers not granted to the federal government.
d -a reasonable interpretation of other constitutional protections of individual rights.
e - the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
2007-12-13 08:37:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
21. c- The oversight responsibility of Congress is more interesting
26. b- SC has reasoned that privacy is provided by 9th Amendment
2007-12-13 08:44:44 · answer #1 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The answer to #21 is E - None of the choices is correct. (Not "are correct"...The subject - "none" - is always singular, a contracted form of the words "no one").
And the choice closest to the correct answer to #26 is, maybe, D. However, the true correct answer is not offered among the choices.
Supreme Court rulings have overwhelmingly cited the 4th Amendment to the Constitution as the amendment conferring a "right of privacy" to the citizenry, despite the fact that the word privacy appears nowhere in the amendment or in the Constitution.
The Fourth Amendment reads:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The other amendments mentioned (Ninth and Tenth) are at best only remotely related to privacy. In addition:
1) If the right is constitutionally conferred on individuals, it must be consistently applied among all the states. Leaving such a matter to the states (10th Amendment) would not guarantee this consistency. And 2) It is not necessary to assume that privacy is an "unenumerated" right (9th Amendment) when the language of the 4th Amendment seems to speak more or less directly to it.
2007-12-13 17:09:13 · answer #2 · answered by JMH 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. None of the Above.
2. D.
2007-12-13 16:45:57 · answer #3 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
21 e
26 d
2007-12-13 16:53:20 · answer #4 · answered by Mac 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
21b 26 c
2007-12-13 16:41:08 · answer #5 · answered by NicholasC 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Whatever they decide at any given time.
2007-12-13 16:59:09 · answer #6 · answered by Darth Scorn 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
D D
2007-12-13 16:41:12 · answer #7 · answered by Spoken Majority 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
f - cheddar cheese + doritos = HEAVEN!!
2007-12-13 16:40:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋