The power and authority to choose one of two or more alternative behaviors is known as:

The answer is discretion as this is a way of behaving in means of avoiding an offense or to prevent of having to leak a particular information and it is a way of deciding what an individual should do in a certain situation, by this, this is having a person to chose behaviors alternatively.

there are indirect ways of affecting state laws   by with holding funding's. and that's why we have a 55mph speed on the high way with a design of 70mph speed.

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