Author Question: The example of the 1998 Senate Finance Committee hearings on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ... (Read 55 times)

EY67 · **on:** Jul 9, 2018

The example of the 1998 Senate Finance Committee hearings on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) illustrates that

A) elected officials have no power to curb bureaucratic abuses.
B) the public has no power to curb bureaucratic abuses.
C) bureaucratic agencies always work against the public interest.
D) if a bureaucratic agency makes life difficult for the voting public, that agency is more likely to be taken to task by elected officials.
E) the Supreme Court is willing to intervene in the actions of the federal bureaucracy.

Question 2

By no longer allowing either the national government or the states to arbitrarily interfere with personal freedoms, the _____ expanded on liberties that were already enunciated in the Bill of Rights.

A) Thirteenth Amendment B) Fourteenth Amendment C) Fifteenth Amendment
D) Sixteenth Amendment E) Twenty-first Amendment