The strong speaker era was a result of
a. the legislature's increased professionalism after the passage of Proposition 1A in 1966.
b. the speaker's role as leader of the majority party.
c. the speaker's ability to raise money for other members.
d. All of the above
Question 2
A semi-presidential system
a. exists when the president's political party is different from the political party that controls the legislative branch.
b. is a group of political parties that agree to share cabinet seats and other important positions in government ministries and work together to pass legislation in a parliament.
c. increasingly concentrates power in the hands of the president, and leads the legislature to become little more than a rubber stamp.
d. combines basic characteristics of both parliamentary and presidential systems.
e. has a legislature with two houses.
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