From Franklin D. Roosevelt’s _____ to the 1996 creation of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, low income mothers and children had enjoyed a federal entitlement to welfare payments.

On the national level, ____________ of political parties is often associated with a critical election in which economic or social issues cut across existing party allegiances and produce a permanent shift in party support and identification.

In 2005, voters approved a constitutional amendment to _____ same-sex marriages in Texas.

A grant for a specific, narrow project is a

About half the delegates to the 1875 constitutional convention were members of

Which of the following is NOT a legislative function in Texas?

The legislature conducts _____ to ensure that agencies and bureaucrats are doing what they are charged by law.

Which of the following is NOT a labor union in Texas?

Below is a scatterplot together with the least squares regression line for the Final Grade and the Average Exam score for a random sample of students from an introductory Statistics class.    a. Describe the important features of this scatterplot.   b. State and interpret the slope.   c. For an average exam score of 130, what is the predicted final grade?  Do you trust this prediction?  

Embodied in the Tenth Amendment, powers not granted to the national government but not specifically denied to the states in the constitution are the