In the Analytical Framework Describing Whether Elections Have Ever Changed

question 184

Multiple Choice

In the analytical framework describing whether elections have ever changed the course of American government, which one of these would fall under the governmental action level?

• A) The New Deal is launched.
• B) Public opinion strongly supported a greater role for the federal government in fighting the Great Depression.
• C) The preamble to the Constitution says that the Constitution was intended to create a government that would "...insure Domestic tranquility... [and]... promote the general Welfare."
• D) Democrats won big majorities in the House and the Senate in 1932.
• E) Franklin Roosevelt interpreted the 1932 election as a mandate for immediate and far-reaching actions by the federal government to meet the crisis of the Great Depression.

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