While Their Ability to Do So, or Ease of Doing

question 56

Multiple Choice

While their ability to do so, or ease of doing so, depends on their own statutes and constitutions, state legislatures may legally shift city limits and the boundaries of counties because:

• A) the federal Constitution allows this, in suggesting that local governments are conveniences of states.
• B) local governments are not mentioned in the federal Constitution, and as such are creatures or conveniences of the states.
• C) power was returned to the states in recent decades, largely by Republican-dominated Congresses and presidents.
• D) the regulation of local governments does not interfere with interstate commerce.

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Definitions:

Bootstrap Sample

A resampling technique used in statistics where repeated samples are drawn with replacement from an original dataset.

Replacement

Replacement is the act of substituting or exchanging something with a new or different version.

Original Sample

The initial group of participants or observations collected for analysis or experimentation before any manipulation or selection takes place.

Bootstrap Confidence Interval

A statistical technique for estimating the uncertainty of a parameter by resampling with replacement.