Thousands of American interest groups vie for attention as best they can, often competing against one another, with the idea being that this will help produce the best policies through balance and compromise. The idea behind this concept is called

12.  An Army Commander issued a written military order preventing service members from wearing clothing in support of the #MeToo movement while on base, even in areas where service members are traditionally allowed to wear civilian clothing.  The stated purpose of the order was to prevent the exacerbation of tensions between male and female service members while on base.  Assuming a group of service members files suit against the order, what is the most likely result based on U.S. Supreme Court precedent?

3.  A state program granted assistance to health care clinics that target expectant mothers.  Some of the clinics participating in the program were affiliated with religious institutions. When parents choose a religiously affiliated clinic, the clinic is provided a slightly larger amount of reimbursement than when parents choose a non-religiously affiliated clinic. If the non-religiously affiliated clinics sue the state, what is its strongest argument?

Popularly known as “Obamacare,” ________ was created and designed to ensure that tens of millions of Americans who could not afford health insurance would have access to at least basic coverage. It also expanded Medicaid.

9.  The State of California passed a law that prohibited any speech that is “destructive of the Peace” and another law stating that “unprotected speech is forbidden.”  Which statement most accurately describes the constitutionality of these two statutes?

The federal government became involved in subsidizing the education of college and university students as a result of the 1944 GI Bill, which

Alexander Hamilton became a hero of the Revolutionary War by 

Calculate the Sum of Squared Deviations (SSD) for Recovery Time: In a study measuring recovery time after anesthesia, the recovery times (in hours) for five patients were: 4, 6, 8, 7, and 5. Calculate the sum of squared deviations from the mean.Formula:S S D = ∑ ( x − x ˉ ) 2 What is the sum of squared deviations for the recovery times?

If an anesthesia study reports a Pearson’s r of -0.78 between anesthetic dosage and intraoperative blood pressure, what can be concluded?

II. Grammatik A. Wer soll was machen? Herr and Frau Nowak would like to leave on vacation with their children as soon as possible, so they are instructing people what to do. Write what they say in the imperative. (8 points)  Frau Nowak to her husband: das Tablet / bitte / mitbringen Herr Nowak to the children: euer Zimmer / bitte / aufräumen Frau Nowak to the neighbor Frau stark: am Freitag / bitte / vorbeikommen the children to their dog Fritzi: zu Hause / bleiben