When the performance and policy preferences of the national and state governments are examined throughout the?

Question

Twentieth Century, it is seen that...

a) the status quo is usually altered through actions by the states, not the national government.

b) the states, rather than the national government, have been used to achieve unprecedented levels of government intervention in the economy.

c) the states have been used to bring about major change in social policy much more so than the national government.

d) the Supreme Court's decisions in the early Twentieth Century, clearly influenced by a philosophical tendency to empower the national government, were a primary motivation for the national government to overcome its tendency toward laissez-faire policies.

e) Lyndon Johnson oversaw the greatest expansion of national authority since the New Deal.

Answer 1

E.

Federal government power expanded greatly in the 20th Century while state government power contracted.