Which of These Is NOT an Argument for the United

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Multiple Choice

Which of these is NOT an argument for the United States having become more of a democracy than the framers envisioned?

• A) the selection of the president by the electoral system
• B) the Seventeenth Amendment's creation of a Senate whose members are directly elected by the people
• C) the Supreme Court's extension of civil rights protections to racial and ethnic minorities
• D) the presidency has become both more powerful and more attentive to majority opinion
• E) the extension of the vote to African Americans and women

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