The trade-off between defense and social spending has sometimes been referred to as a choice between "guns and butter," meaning that social spending suffers when defense costs rise. who has the power to influence foreign policy by controlling funding in the u. s. budget?

Which of the following is an example of how the principle of beneficence can be applied to a study employing human subjects? providing detailed information about the study and obtaining the subject's consent to participate. ensuring that the selection of subjects includes people from all segments of the population. ensuring that persons with diminished autonomy are protected. determining that the study has a maximization of benefits and a minimization of risks.

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.

During he 1840s, more americans than british settled in the oregon country. how do you think this settlement influenced negotiations with the british over the territory