The process of deciding who benefits in society and who does not.
What is politics?
100
A type of government that derives its authority from the people and in which citizens elect government officials to represent them.
What is a republic?
100
Name for functions held simultaneously by national, state and local governments.
What are concurrent powers?
100
This state body has 80 members who serve 2-year terms. Each member represents roughly 440,000 constituents.
What is the State Assembly?
100
Marijuana is a schedule I drug. To what schedule is methamphetamine belong?
What is schedule II?
200
Ever since this event in the 1970s, Americans' faith in government has been very low.
What is Watergate?
200
What is the difference between checks and balances and separation of powers?
So many
200
This amendment defines the basic principle of American federalism in stating that the powers not delegated to the national government are reserved to the states or to the people.
What is the 10th amendment?
200
An election that allows citizens to propose legislation or state constitutional amendments by submitting them to the electorate for popular vote.
What is an initiative?
200
A political ideology that advocates economic equality, theoretically achieved by having the government or workers ow the means of production.
What is socialism?
300
This event in the early 2000s stimulated a surge in patriotism and voluntarism.
What is 9/11?
300
Why did the northern states agree to the 3/5 compromise?
Better slavery than nothing; taxes.
300
This Supreme Court case that clarified the meaning of commerce, and the scope of the interstate commerce clause.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)?
300
To be on the November ballot, this constitutional amendment would raise income taxes on those earning over $250,000, as well as the state sales tax by 0.25%.
What is Proposition 30?
300
The Department of Justice said it would not "go after" Colorado and Washington for the marijuana laws. True or false?
What is true?
400
System of government in which the every aspect of a citizen's life in controlled.
What is totalitariansim?
400
What are the steps of proposing and ratifying an amendment?
2/3 Congress + 3/4 states
400
The constitutional clause that requires states to comply with and uphold the public acts, records and judicial decisions of other states.
What is the full faith and credit clause?
400
Passed in 1978, this CA proposition limited how much property taxes can be increased.
What is a Prop. 13?
400
Older voters tend to vote more...
What is conservatively?
500
This group constitutes the country's largest ethnic minority.
What are Hispanics?
500
Name three legislative checks on the Executive.
1. Impeachment (House), Trials (Senate)
2. Veto override
3. Approval of appointments, treaties and ambassadors (Senate)
500
The U.S. Supreme Court justified ruled against Raich on the basis of what clause.
What is the interstate commerce clause?
500
Passed in June 2012, this amendment to the California constitution changed state legislature term limits to 12 years of combined service.
What is Proposition 28?
500
President Obama has kept his word of not prosecuting those who grow or use marijuana in states where it is legal to do so. True or false?