Author Question: When we say that Japan is a constitutional monarchy, we mean that a. the monarch alone can amend ... (Read 89 times)

Kthamas · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

When we say that Japan is a constitutional monarchy, we mean that

a. the monarch alone can amend the constitution.
b. the monarch is the formal head of government although as a practical matter, executive power is exercised by the prime minister.
c. the monarch serves only a ceremonial symbolic role.
d. the Japanese parliament chooses the monarch.
e. the monarch has a constitutional power to veto laws approved by parliament but he has never exercised this.

Question 2

Merit-selection plans, in practice, are

a. immune from politics.
b. most often dominated by the legal profession.
c. reduced to a struggle between Democrats and Republicans.
d. immune from the governor's influence.