Tocqueville 1
The three causes which maintain a Democratic Republic.
What are providence, the laws, and habits & mores.
The two foreign policy disasters discussed in class.
What are Pearl Harbor and 9/11?
These three things temper the Tyranny of the Majority.
What are Absence of Administrative Centralization, the Spirit of the Lawyer, and the Jury?
The Television Hypothesis is...
What is the hypothesis that television is a reason for the public’s low level of knowledge of public affairs, because people do not remember very much of the
political information they see on television.
Tocqueville consider these the distinctive traits of the federal court system.
What are courts serve as arbiters as they settle disputes, courts pronounce only on particular cases, and courts are only to act when appealed to?
Tocqueville sees this as the “great peril for the American republics” that needs to be limited using associations.
What is the tyranny of the majority?
pg. 183
The members of the National Security Council.
Who are the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense.
Also, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the statutory military advisor to the Council and the Director of National Intelligence is the intelligence advisor.
The privilege that Tocqueville says the United States of America has regarding public and foreign policy.
What is the ability to make repairable mistakes?
pg. 216
A political party is...
What is a group that seeks to elect candidates to public office by supplying them with a label (party identification), by which they are known to the electorate?
Tocqueville believed that the most dreadful of all the evils that threaten the future of the United States
arises from this. presence of blacks on its soil.
What is the presence of blacks on its soil.
pg. 326
According to Tocqueville, these are the two causes of Native American demise.
What are (Indian Pride and Demand for Absolute
Freedom) and (Federal & State Cupidity)?
Describe the perception gap.
What is the overestimation that people of an opposing group are more polarized/radicalized than they actually are?
Tocqueville thinks this about trying to take independence away from the press in countries like America.
What is he thinks that it is dangerous and absurd?
pg. 173
Explain the process of becoming a Federal Judge.
What is
1) the President makes nominations when vacancies or new positions occur in the federal judiciary, and
2) the Senate must confirm the president’s nomination by a majority vote.
Tocqueville mentions these two parties when discussing the first American parties.
What are the federalists and the republicans.
pg. 168
According to Tocqueville, tyranny most inconvenient here.
What is a small nation?
pg. 150
The National Security Act did these three things.
What is restructured the military, created the NSC, and placed the CIA as the top Intelligence Agency in the Intelligence Committee.
Tocqueville's views about America and expression of mind.
What is America has less freedom of mind and one must always side with the majority to be a part of the society?
pg. 244
Define the CNN Effect.
What is the theory in political science and media studies which states that global television networks play a significant role in determining the actions policymakers take and the outcomes of events.
What does Tocqueville say is one of the first conditions of existence and happiness for nations?
What is Force?
pg. 152
Tocqueville say that this is the reason talented people tend to stay away from public office.
What is they would rather pursue wealth & not worry about reelections.
pg. 195
These are the three types of Mass Media.
What are print media, broadcast media, and digital media?
This was the first thing Alexis de Tocqueville read in a newspaper when he came to America.
What is an article calling President Jackson a heartless despot?
pg. 174
Name 4 types of Congressional Committees mentioned in class.
What are Standing, Joint, Select and Conference?
According to Tocqueville, what are cases which the federal courts have jurisdiction over.
What are cases which involve two states as litigants or claiming jurisdiction over a single litigant, cases with a maritime origin, and cases which involve states passing laws considered illegal by the federal government.
pg. 135-136