The Practice of Judicial Review

question 11

Multiple Choice

The practice of judicial review:

• A) was first described in the U.S. Constitution.
• B) is considered today to be essential to a functioning democratic government.
• C) owes its early origins to Germany but is used only in the United States today.
• D) eventually became common throughout most of Europe by the twentieth century.
• E) has spread throughout so-called "third wave" democracies around the world.

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Definitions:

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An island in the Caribbean Sea, divided into the sovereign states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

European Diseases

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Gold and Silver

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Inflation

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