Foundations of American Democracy
This branch of Congress has the ability to check cabinet appointees.
What is The Senate?
A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
What is a bureaucracy?
This amendment protects the right to petition the government.
What is the First Amendment?
This is the most influential factor in determining one's political beliefs.
What is Family?
What is a Lobbyist?
This document served as the first U.S Constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
All revenue bills begin in this chamber of Congress.
What is the House of Representatives?
This clause is crucial to the protection of civil rights.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
A person whose views favor more government involvement in business, social welfare, minority rights, & increased government spending.
What is a Liberal?
The process of assigning the 435 seats in the House to the states based on increase or decrease in state population.
What is Apportionment?
The United States is this kind of democracy.
What is a representative democracy?
This is a tactic used in the United States Senate to delay or block a vote on a measure by preventing debate on it from ending.
What is a Filibuster?
This landmark court case established that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. The Board of Education?
This political party shifted ideologies from a more liberal standpoint to more conservative after the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What is the Republican Party?
This form of political participation plays a crucial role in shaping the policy agenda by highlighting certain issues, influencing public opinion, and prompting government response.
What is Media?
This founding father argued for a large republic rather than a smaller democracy.
Who is James Madison?
This is the legal principle of determining points in litigation according to precedent.
What is Stare Decisis?
Civil Liberties are formally described in this government document.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A phrase used to describe people, whatever their economic status, who uphold traditional values, especially against the counterculture of the 1960s.
What is the Silent Majority?
What is a Super PAC?
A system of government in which both the states and the national government remain supreme within their own spheres, each responsible for some policies.
What is Dual Federalism?
This is the term for a person that currently holds a position in office.
What is Incumbent?
This court case decided that the right to bear arms was fundamental and protected under the fourteenth amendment.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
Early form of polling that asks the same question of a large number of people.
What is a Straw Poll.
The channels through which people's concerns become political issues on the government's policy agenda.
What is a linkage institution?