Polotics exam 2 true/false
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- minor parties in the us are often a powerful minority in Congress
- false
- in no case in recent times have any presidential electors ignored the popular vote of their state and cast their electoral vote independently
- false
- each of the fifty states uses primary elections to select concention delegates
- false
- the principle of "jus sanguini" confers citizenship by blood rather than place of birth
- true
- american citizen voting in a foreign political election automatically revokes his citizenship
- false
- people who get welfare are more likely to vote than people who get social security
- false
- conviction by a court-marshall or desertion in time of war automatically results in loss of citizenship
- false
- under the present voting rights act, a person must prove his literacy to vote
- false
- the us constitution deals with political parties by saying nothing about them
- true
- a state may require a statement of belief in the extistence of God as a qualification for holding an office or voting
- false
- abolishing the electoral college would probably break the lock that our two parties have on the presidential electoral system
- true
- members of congress and bureau cheifs need info that is hard to fin and expensive to collect but is often available from interest groups
- true