Constitution Formation
Presidential Campaign
Media
Supreme Court Cases
Bureaucracy
100
Those who opposed ratification of the Constitution.
What are Anti-Federalist
100
A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
What is a Caucus
100
Forms of communication, such as newspapers and radio, that reach millions of people.
What is Mass Media
100
Consists of nine justices, each appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress. Appointment is for life. Supreme Court exercises the power to determine constitutionality of statutes
What is the Supreme Court
100
Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
What is Administrative discretion
200
A system in which each branch of government is able to check, or restrain, the power of the others.
What is the Checks and Balance System
200
the official endorsement of a candidate for office by a political party. Generally, success in the nomination game requires momentum, money, and media attention.
What is a Nomination
200
The modern media trend for TV and radio shows to target very narrow ideological audiences
What is Narrowcasting
200
An 1819 Supreme Court decision that established the supremacy of the national government over state governments. In deciding this case, Chief Justice John Marshall and his colleagues held that Congress had certain implied powers in addition to the enumerated powers found in the Constitution.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland
200
a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives
What is a Bureaucracy
300
Compromise agreement by states at the Constitutional Convention for a bicameral legislature with a lower house in which representation would be based on population and an upper house in which each state would have two senators.
What is the Connecticut Compromise
300
A national meeting of delegates elected in primaries, caucuses, or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president, ratify the party platform, elect officers, and adopt rules.
What is the National Party Convention
300
The 1974 case in which the Supreme Court unanimously held that the doctrine of executive priveledge was implicit in the Constitution but could not be extended to protect documents relevant to criminal prosecutions
What is United States v. Nixon
300
A mutually dependent relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees or subcommittees. They dominate some areas of domestic policy making.
What are Iron Triangles
400
The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for representation of each state in Congress in proportion to that state's share of the U.S. population.
What is the Virginia Plan
400
A political party's statement of its goals and policies for the next four years. The platform is drafted prior to the party convention by a committee whose members are chosen in rough proportion to each candidate's strength. It is the best formal statement of a party's beliefs.
What is the Party Platform
400
an intentional news leak for the purpose of assessing the political reaction
What are Trial Baloons
400
The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress, (the Judiciary Act of 1789).
What is Marbury v. Madison
400
government intervention in a market that affects the production of a good
What is Regulation
500
The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for equal representation of each state in Congress regardless of the state's population.
What is the New Jersey Plan
500
First major federal law (1971) to regulate federal elections. Required disclosure of sources of campaign funds (transparency), set limits on contributions to candidates (individuals = $1000, PACs = $5000), spending limits for candidates, limits on independent expenditures.
What is Federal Election Campaign Act
500
specific locations from which news frequently emanates, such as Congress or the White House. Most top reporters work a particular beat, thereby becoming specialists in what goes on at that location
What are Beats
500
Supreme Court case which struck a blow to states' rights upholding the federal government's right to regulate interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden
500
A set of rules established in a bureaucracy that dictate how workers respond to different situations so that all workers respond in the same way.
What is Standard Operating Procedure
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