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California’s legislature has full-time, highly paid members with large professional staff and resources, and is organized into specialized committees. Therefore, California’s legislature is a [professional] legislature.

The publication of which of the following galvanized the colonists’ belief that reconciliation with Great Britain was impossible?

Which of the following required all paper items in the colonies to carry a stamp of the Crown?

Match the constitutional provision with where it can be found – in the U.S. Constitution only, in the California Constitution only, in both or in neither.

In drafting the Constitution, which plan was predominantly supported by states with smaller populations?

In most state constitutions, including California’s, executive authority is divided among a governor and other elected state officials including a lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, and attorney general.

Which amendment states that those powers not given to the federal government and not prohibited to the states by the Constitution are reserved for the states and the people?

Which of the following best describes the Constitutional Convention?

Government can be defined as publicly funded institutions that create and enforce rules for a specific territory and people. Such institutions would include which of the following?

Which powers are shared by the federal and state governments?