In a time of crisis, a president can issue an executive order without consulting congress based on the

President carter worked to ease tensions with china by a. establishing full diplomatic relations. b. limiting international trade. c. agreeing to stop communism. d. limiting us production of nuclear weapons.

President nixon resigned from office in 1974 after he was informed that the senate would impeach him, as allowed in the constitution, for his actions in the watergate scandal. one of the key reasons that nixon’s actions became public was a) the freedom of press guaranteed by the first amendment. b) the right to confront witnesses as guaranteed by the sixth amendment. c) the limitation of judicial powers as defined in article 3 of the constitution. d) the prohibition against illegal search and seizure as guaranteed by the fourth amendment.

Why did the crew of the zong ship throw some captive africans overboard? a. there was not enough space in the ship. b. the captives’ deaths were covered by insurance. c. the ship did not have adequate food. d. the ship did not have sufficient crew to care for the sick captives. e. the african captives rebelled against the crew.