When it comes to state management, Governing magazine rates California:
a. best in the nation.
b. not best, but in the top ten.
c. about average.
d. tied for last with several other states.
Question 2
Democratic systems
a. are generally not established around the principles that constitutions should limit government power, that government officials must obey the country's laws, and that a government's legitimacy comes from obeying these limitations and laws.
b. provide for the free and fair selection of government representatives through elections in which the vast majority of adults are eligible to vote and the voters have a genuine choice between candidates, balance the principle of majority rule with the protection of minority interests, and limit the role of government by defining rights that the general population possess that government cannot restrict.
c. believe in transferring power from a central government to lower governments.
d. provide lower levels of government with designated powers that the central government cannot take away.
e. allow lower levels of government to enforce laws and policies made by the central government.
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