Unit 1
The framers designed Congress this way so that making laws would take time and careful thought
What is slow and deliberate in the law-making process?
A president can limit the Supreme Court’s power by doing this, choosing not to carry out one of its decisions
What is refusing to enforce a ruling by the Court?
The death penalty can’t be used on minors or people who are mentally incompetent because the Court changed how it understands this part of the Constitution
What is the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment?
Poll results can differ because of this, which can change how people understand and answer the questions.
What is a difference in wording of the questions?
This job in a democracy is harder without political parties because they help teach people about elections
What is educating the public about upcoming elections
Congress used this power to regulate businesses across state lines when it passed a law about employer health plans.
What is regulating commerce among the states?
To investigate problems in veterans’ hospitals, this House committee action lets members question top VA officials in a formal meeting.
What is holding a hearing and subpoenaing high-level officials?
The Supreme Court would treat this situation as a right-to-privacy case involving a personal medical decision.
What is a woman who is prevented from having an abortion?
This factor makes a poll more credible because it gathers opinions from a large, random group of people across the country.
What is administering the poll to several thousand people stopped while shopping in malls across the country?
A group that wants to boost voter turnout might choose this strategy, which helps young people get signed up to vote.
What is holding a voter registration drive in public high schools?
This action is unconstitutional because a state can’t tax goods coming from other countries.
What is placing a tax on furniture made overseas?
This makes it hard for presidents to control the bureaucracy because career officials can’t easily be fired even if they oppose the president’s plans.
What is civil service laws limiting removal of professional bureaucrats?
This situation would likely break the Fourteenth Amendment because it treats people differently based on race.
What is a public school system using race-based segregation?
This type of election usually has the lowest voter turnout, with far fewer citizens showing up to vote than in presidential elections.”
What are midterm elections?
In candidate-centered campaigns, this happens when voters care more about how a candidate seems than what they’ve done or believe.
What is the candidate’s personal appeal mattering more than their experience or positions
The framers designed Congress this way so that passing laws would take time and careful thought.
What is slow and deliberate in the law-making process?
This happens when a new president gives a government job to someone who helped with their campaign or supported them politically.
What is nominating a high-level campaign fund-raiser as an ambassador?
This court case protected the right to protest by students, like wearing certain clothing to express their views, which is protected as symbolic speech in school.
What is Tinker V. Des Moines?
This process, including family, schools, and media, helps people form their political beliefs and opinions.
What is political socialization?
This term describes the tight, long-lasting teamwork between a government agency, a congressional committee, and an interest group on one policy issue.
What are Iron Triangles?
This plan at the Constitutional Convention favored larger states by giving representation based on population in Congress.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This model of representation is when a lawmaker sometimes follows their own judgment and sometimes follows the wishes of their constituents
What is the politico model?
This happens when police search a person’s phone without a warrant, violating the Fourth Amendment.
What is analyzing a suspect’s cell phone before a warrant is issued?
These groups try to influence government policy by lobbying lawmakers and mobilizing citizens around specific issues.
What are interest groups?
This problem happens when people benefit from a nonprofit’s work, like blocking a harmful subsidy, without helping the group themselves.
What is the free-rider problem?