Ends and Beginnings
First and Last
GOV Abbr
Santa Clauses
Polling and Pooling
100

This is the primary election where registered voters for any party can vote for a specific party's candidate, and this is known as a voter shift

What is Open Prima(ry) Realignment

100

This party in an election is the minority

What is a third party

100

The abbreviation for the Supreme Court

What is SCOTUS

100

This clause gives the national government power over state governments

What is the supremacy clause
100

This poll is done on people after they are done voting

What is an exit poll

200

The idea that nobody is above the law and the action of interacting with government officials

What is Rule of (Law) Lobbying

200

It is stated in the Declaration of Independence that people are endowed with these things

What are inalienable rights

200

This famous round and yellow arcade character would use these if he wanted to fund his election for best video game character

What are PACs

200

This clause of the Constitution allows people not get punished by the government for what they say

What is the first Amendment freedom of speech clause

200

This type of journalism emphasizes drama of whose winning an election

What is horse race journalism

300

This is the document sent to King George, and this principle created the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branch

What is the Declaration of Independen(ce) Separation of Powers

300

It is a long established connection between interest groups, bureaucratic agencies, and the Congressional Committee

What is the Iron Triangle

300

This government organization assumed that Citizens United's movie would affect the primary elections

What is the FEC

300

This clause grants Congress power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among states, and with Indian tribes, while also restricting states from unduly burdening interstate commerce.

What is the commerce clause

300

This type of error is around plus or minus 3%

What is sampling error

400

This is another name for franchise/voting, and this is the impact of experiences shared by people of a similar age on political ideology

What is Suffra(ge) Generational Effect

400

A way for interest groups to write to the Supreme Court explaining their side of an argument and stuff

What is an Amicus Curiae Brief

400

It would be weird to watch an A24 film on this likewise amendment's policy.

What is the prohibition of poll taxes

400

This clause states that no one shall be "deprived of life, liberty or property" by the federal government without fair treatment through the normal judicial system. 

What is due process clause

400

People do this type of voting based on a candidate's past performance

What is retrospective voting

500

This was written by James Madison and highlighted the problems with factions, and these are powers granted to the federal government by the Constitution

What is Federalist T(en) Enumerated Powers

500

Warrants are essentially these court orders

What is a Writ of habeas corpus

500

The highest grade of wagyu steak could also mean this part of the Constitution that covers the Amendment process

What is Article 5

500

This clause requires states to respect and honor the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of other states, promoting national unity by ensuring legal consistency across borders for things like driver's licenses, marriages, and court judgments. 

What is the full faith and credit clause

500

The procedure in which the survey is adjusted according to the demographic of a larger population

What is weighting

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