Questions - Branches of Government - February 18-19, 2015
Voters Don't Feel Represented By Their Own Government
Should Obama Ignore the Federal Courts?
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National Survey of 800
Likely Voters
Conducted February 18-19, 2015
By Rasmussen Reports
1*
Is it more important for government to operate
efficiently or more important to preserve our constitutional system of checks
and balances?
2*
Which of the three branches of the federal government
is most important – the executive, the legislative or the judiciary? Or are
they all of equal importance?
3*
Generally speaking, do court challenges of actions approved by the president
and Congress help protect the rights of U.S. citizens, or are they mostly
nuisances that stand in the way of good policy?
4*
Should the president have the right to ignore federal court rulings if they are
standing in the way of actions he feels are important for the country?
5*
Do the actions of the U.S. government today represent the desires of most
Americans, or is the government more responsive to special interest groups?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling
Error, +/- 3.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence