Wasn't this in Hamilton?
Government of the people, by the people, for the people
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Regulating Intrastate commerce is this type of power
What is a State Power?
Through the use of a constitutional clause, this case gave the Federal government more power over the states.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
These disenfranchise citizens by preventing people from voting or making voting difficult.
What are Structural Barriers?
This refers to lobbyists becoming politicians and politicians becoming lobbyists
What is the Revolving Door?
This act banned soft money donations to national parties.
What is the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (2002)?
This document highlighted items like Federal Taxes, the Supremacy Clause, and the Elastic Clause as evidence against a large central government.
What is Brutus No. 1?
States dislike this type of aid because it can only be used for specific purposes of state and local spending
What is a Categorical Grant?
This court case equated Money = Speech
What is Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
This ideology is defined by an emphasis on civil liberties, de-regulation, fiscally conservative, and liberal on social issues.
What is a Libertarian?
This is a term where Interest Groups engage in activities aimed at influencing public officials, especially legislators, and the policies they enact
What is Lobbying?
The Tilman Act of 1907, Smith-Connally Act of 1943, and Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 all tried to limit influences from
What is Banks, Corporations, and Labor Unions?
Buying marijuana in Colorado and bringing it across state lines is a violation of what type of commerce?
What is Interstate Commerce?
Coining/ Borrow Money, Taxing, Regulating Interstate and Foreign commerce, Regulating the Mail, Declaring War, Raising Armies & Foreign Policy are all what type of powers?
What is Federal Powers?
In US v Lopez (1995) the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal government violated the constitutional reach of Congress to legislate under this clause.
What is the Commerce Clause?
This is a political cornerstone that is defined by private businesses operating in competition, free of state control.
What is Free Enterprise?
This is term refers the largest number of votes, not the majority
What is Plurality?
This act allowed those who had enjoyed the right to vote prior to 1867, or their lineal descendants, would be exempt from educational, property, or tax requirements for voting.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
In Federalist 10, James Madison argues that political liberty is best protected by...
What is a Large Republic with factions?
Powers belonging to both the FEDERAL & STATE simultaneously
What are Concurrent Powers?
This SCOTUS Case ruled that racial gerrymandering was unconstitutional.
What is Shaw v. Reno (1993)?
This term refers to the lifelong process through which an individual acquires opinions through contact with: Family, Friends, Coworkers, & other group associations
What is Political Socialization?
What is the name of the process that occurs based on the new census which distributes the 435 House Seats among States.
What is Re-Apportionment?
Citizens collect signatures to place proposal on ballot
What is an Initiative Petition?
What perspective is the following: "If the Executive is vested in three Persons, one chosen from the northern, one from the middle, and one from the Southern States, will it not contribute to quiet the Minds of the People"
What is an Anti-Federalist?
The No Child Left Behind Act, requiring schools to demonstrate their success by academic achievement of every student is an example of
What is a (unfunded) federal mandate?
This SCOTUS case established that districts must be drawn with representation evenly distributed. One Man = One Vote.
What is Baker v. Carr (1961)?
The House creating a budget for the United States is this type of policy.
What is Fiscal Policy?
The FEC Act of 1974 created the FEC, set up a Presidential Campaign Fund, & required contribution disclosures due to what event?
What is Watergate?
In Citizens United vs. FEC (2010) lawyers argued for a limited approach to government, giving power back to the people. Which model of democracy does this represent?
What is Pluralism?
This document established limits on Monarchies/Governments for the first time in history. Granting Basic Civil Liberties to groups like, Trial by Jury, Due Process, and Private Property
What is the Magna Carta (1215)
This is a type of categorical grant which takes the number of people living in an area x % = $$$ state receives
What is a Formula Grant?
What is the term established by NY Times v. US (1971) which means that the government cannot plan to stop spoken or printed expression in advance, just because.
What is Prior Restraint?
This geographic area voted Democrat every election following the Civil War until it switched in the 1960s to a Republican stronghold
What is the Solid South?
This is defined by Political Realignment, when groups of voters have changed their traditional patterns of party loyalties
What are Critical Elections?
Ranked Choice Voting is what type of voting system.
What is Proportional Representation?
"There is no express delegation of authority to them (Federal) to use force against delinquent members (States)" This statement from the Federalist papers is advocating for what clause?
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This part of the Constitution creates a Congress consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives & assigns the responsibility for making laws to the Legislative Branch
What is Article 1?
Fletcher v. Peck (1810), Gibbons v. Ogden (1823), and McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) all led to the development of what type of Federalism?
What is Cooperative Federalism?
This is an economic philosophy that encourages government spending through the creation of jobs or the distribution of unemployment benefits.
What is Keynesian Economics?
This is a tactic of an Interest Group defined by direct involvement in the Electoral Process such as endorsing a candidate or holding voter registration drives
What is Electioneering?
These are people who promise to represent & vote at the convention on behalf of the party. Candidates need to win the majority of these to be their party's Nominee
What are Delegates?