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The more confident people are that members of powerful groups behave unethically, the less likely they are to have confidence in that group’s performance.
Most states in the U.S. allow children to be exempt from vaccinations due to religious concerns.
More than a third of the states that allow executions haven’t carried one out in at least 10 years or, in some cases, much longer.
God or the divine is mentioned at least once in each of the 50 state constitutions and nearly 200 times overall.
The vast majority of the nation’s federal lawmakers (91%) describe themselves as Christians, compared with 71% of U.S. adults who say the same.
One hundred years after Jeannette Rankin became the first female member of the U.S. Congress, women remain underrepresented in political and business leadership.
Just five states – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas – accounted for all 20 executions in the U.S. in 2016.
Although the movement to limit congressional terms has been largely dormant for the past two decades, 15 states do limit how many terms their own legislators can serve.
While a growing number of LGBT politicians have been elected to public office and attitudes toward the LGBT community have become much more favorable over the past decade, survey data suggest that being gay or lesbian remains an obstacle for candidates running for president.
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