Campaign Laws
What are the committees that fund a politician's political race for an election called?
Political Action Committees or PACs
What is the definition of Public Policy?
Any plan that the government takes action upon
What style of government does the United States has?
Democratic Republic style of government
This branch of the government can declare war on foreign nations, collects money/taxes from its people, officially certifies political elections, and creates laws for the nation.
Legislative Branch
This amendment does not allow any soldiers to utilize a person's home for rest and for nourishment. What amendment is described above?
Amendment III (3) - Soldiers cannot be quartered in a home
What are the two different categories for Political Action Committees (PACs)?
Connected or Regular PAC and Non-connected PAC or Super PAC
What are the four stages of the Public Policy making process?
Stage 1 - Agenda Setting
Stage 2 - Formulation process
Stage 3 - Implementation process
Stage 4 - Evaluation process
This political party gained popularity during the 1860s for its stance against slavery. What political party is this?
Republican Party
This branch of the government overlooks agencies such as the CIA, FBI, and other security agencies for the nation. This branch can appoint federal judges, issue executive orders, and controls the military.
Executive Branch
This amendment allows a person to be tried by a jury of their peers in the community. Typically, this trial by jury is issued to people that cause a case that is more than $20.
Amendment VII (7th)- Trial by Jury
What are the differences between a Super PAC and a PAC?
Super PACs can not donate directly to a politician's election campaign and regular PACs can only donate $5000 to a political candidate.
How do advocacy groups or interest groups influence the policy making process?
They conduct research through qualitative and quantitative processes that provide data for politicians to create public policy based around the people's interests and desires.
This political party was reshaped in the early 1900s and focused on assisting the elderly, the poor, immigrants, and provided social welfare for its people. What political party is this?
Democratic party
There are 9 top positions in this branch of the government and the 9 individuals assess whether or not created laws are constitutional or unconstitutional. This branch judges actions of other branches to measure if they have the justified power to do that action. What branch of the government is this?
This amendment ensures that people who are held in jail will have a trial within a reasonable amount of time and that you have a right to a lawyer. What amendment is described here?
Amendment VI (6th) - right to a Speedy Trial and Jury
What is the purpose of the disclosure process in Voting Law?
The purpose is to reduce the liklihood of corruption from occurring and the politicians' need to be transparent with government funded money.
What are Lobbyists and what is the purpose that they serve?
Lobbyists are intermediaries between corporations or labor interests and government politicians. They influence public policy making as they talk to politicians about corporate/business interests.
This party was the third party that formed in America during the early 1800s. This party focused on building a trade economy, it had a pro-British stance, and it wanted to expand industry in America. What political party is this?
The Whig party
It takes 270 electoral college votes for this political candidate to assume its position of power within the government. There is a major race that occurs and the person assumes power on January 6th.
Presidential election or the Executive Branch
This amendment declares that any powers or laws that were not outlined within the Constitution are deemed as legal or until a law is amended.
Amendment IX (9th) - Powers Given to the People
What is the official name of the FEC?
Federal Elections Commission
What is the purpose of evaluating process to the policy making process?
The purpose is to see if a public policy was efficient with its use of resources and to see if the policy was effective for its intended purposes.
What event in the 1930s-1940s America that reshaped the identity of the Democratic party?
The Great Depression and the government's response called the New Deal.
What is the process for a bill to become a law?
A bill is introduced into the House of Representatives or the Senate. It is talked about in that house of the legislative branch to iron out any issues or problems. After the bill moves to the other legislative house, where they vote on whether it passes or not. After, the bill is passed to the president, where he signs the bill to become a law or the president utilizes a veto, where the bill either dies or there is vote to cancel the presidential veto. It becomes a law after the veto override vote.
This is the most controversial amendment in the Bill of Rights. This amendment gives a person freedoms and protections from the government. This amendment allows a person to speak freely to the government, allows people to organize and assemble together, allows people to petition the government, people can write about the government as freely as possible, and ensures that people can chose a religion of their choice.
Amendment I - Rights to petition, speech, assembly, a religion, and press.