Which Is an Example of a Federal Mandate

question 19

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of a federal mandate?

• A) Congress passes a law requiring all nuclear power plants to revise and strengthen their safety protocols.
• B) Congress passes a law requiring all states to adopt a sex offender registry system categorizing offenders based on conviction, not future threat.
• C) The Environmental Protection Agency sends money to Louisiana to help with cleanup from the gulf oil spill.
• D) The Nevada legislature passes a law requiring all public school teachers to spend twenty hours per week preparing students for the state achievement test.
• E) The Supreme Court upholds a federal law requiring all citizens to wear a seatbelt while operating a motor vehicle.

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Definitions:

Political Organization

The way in which a society creates and structures its political institutions, processes, and relationships to make collective decisions and govern behavior.

Chiefdoms

A form of hierarchical political organization in non-industrial societies usually based on kinship, and led by a chief.

Hereditary

Relating to characteristics, properties, or conditions that are passed from parents to their offspring through genes.

Natural Selection

The evolutionary process through which factors in the environment exert pressure, favoring some individuals over others to produce the next generation.