Problematic Foundations
He gave a speech during the 4th of July to highlight the hypocrisy of the US in refusing to allow African Americans full rights.
This group of voters are the most likely to vote.
Who are senior voters?
Define civil liberties
What are: limitations on government power, or freedoms you have that cannot be infringed upon.
Define Civil Rights.
What are: guarantees that government (and publicly-funded entities) will treat people equally?
This federal statute requires public agencies to provide certain forms of information requested by citizens or news media.
What is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)?
Discriminatory actions within voting rights systems, including, poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses, that all operate to disenfranchise specific voters, is known as....
What is systemic racism?
The total money collected by a candidate to run their campaign is known as....
What is a war chest?
The fifth amendment protects against this except when tried at a different level of government or in civil or criminal court.
What is Double Jeopardy?
What were some tactics used by the National Woman's Party (NWP) that made them more radical than other women's groups at the time?
They held public protests, picketed outside the White House, and when arrested held hunger strikes.
Video and print news posted to the Internet or social media by citizens rather than the news media is known as.....
What is citizen journalism?
An economic and political system where trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit. It is characterized by the existence of wage labor, commodity production, and the accumulation of private property, and can have varying levels of influence of the state.
What is capitalism?
The term referring to a candidate running for office who is already holding that position.
What is an incumbent?
Congress and states cannot create nor promote a state-sponsored religion, also known as this clause.
What is the establishment clause?
The legal term stripping married women of their separate legal identities.
Investigations of corruption and other problems in government or business is known as...
What is muckraking?
Corporate, government, or otherwise institutional policies that might appear to be neutral (to race) but create unequal outcomes represents a term known as....
Institutional Racism
This group determines if a presidential primary will be open or closed or if a caucus will be held instead in determining who will ultimately run on the national ballot?
What is the political party itself?
Congress and each of the states cannot prohibit your ability to practice (or not practice) your religious beliefs, a prohibition rooted in this clause.
What is the free exercise clause?
Courts have three legal bases in order to determine if discrimination has occurred, what are they?
What are: the rational basis test, intermediate scrutiny, and strict scrutiny?
The term used to describe media deciding what deserves public attention.
What is agenda setting?
The following quote indicates the impact of what on the author:
"I can't imagine how I might have conceived of myself and my possibilities if, in my formative years, I had moved through a city where most things were named after women and many or most of the monuments were of powerful, successful, honored women."
What is the Patriarchy/Structural Sexism?
Top-two primaries, also known as this, are primaries in which candidates compete regardless of political affiliation for ballot access.
What is a Jungle Primary?
The Fourth Amendment ensures that warrants and searches must have this in order to be considered legitimate.
What is probable cause?
Malcolm X advocated for a philosophy that focused on black Americans having economic, social, and political control over their own communities, also known as this.
What is Black Nationalism?
[400pts for 2, additional 200pts for each additional restriction]
Media cannot engage in the deliberate dispersion of false information with an intent to harm (libel and slander); cannot report on issues of national security (prior restraint); cannot be obscene (Miller test); must give equal time to candidates.
This refers to the multiple and interconnected ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems.
What is structural racism?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The four groups one could look at to determine voter turnout.
1. Complete Population
2. Voting-age Population
3. Voting-eligible Population
4. Registered Voters
Your freedoms are not unlimited, and can be restrained in a variety of ways. Using the first amendment as your example, what restrictions exist to limit what you can say? (Name two for 500 pts)
Your speech cannot incite violence; you may have your speech limited if you are not in a public space; private corporations do not have to protect your free speech in the same way the government does; depending on when/where you are speaking, you can be censored for obscenity.
A "political belief and action orientation that arises from being aware, appreciating, and seeking to address the specific barriers presented by the intersections of racism, classism, and sexism" is known as this.
What is intersectional solidarity?
Media can engage in framing in a variety of ways, the two that we learned about are....
[Half points for naming the two kinds of framing, full credit for definitions]