CLEP American Government
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Affirmative action
Federal funding for projects that serve the interests of the constituents of certain members of Congress and that circumvent a direct allocation process by being attached to billsand often buried in the language of billsthat frequently have nothing whatsoever to do with those projects.
A third party that is far to the political left and focuses on environmental issues
A statement in the First Amendment that "Congress may not found an official religion"
Programs that seek to compensate for past discrimination by giving special attention in hiring, and in college/university admissions, to people from the groups discriminated against