A political system in which the national government shares power with local governments (state governments).
What is federalism?
100
A patterned and sustained way of thinking about how political and economic life ought to be carried out.
What is political culture?
100
This act, passed in 1798, made it a crime to write, utter, or publish “any false, scandalous, and malicious writing” with the intention of defaming the president, Congress, or the government.
What is the Sedition Act?
100
The rights of people to be treated without unreasonable or unconstitutional differences.
What are civil rights?
200
The guiding document for our country during the Revolutionary War.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
200
The landmark decision in this case resulted in the "necessary and proper" clause.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)?
200
This French aristocrat wrote a stirring study of American political culture not long after our country's founding.
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?
200
This standard of equal treatment must be observed by the government.
What is equal protection of the law?
200
The "separate but equal" doctrine is a result of this landmark decision.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
300
A 1787 insurrection in which ex-Revolutionary War soldiers attempted to prevent foreclosures of farms as a result of high interest rates and taxes.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
Although later overturned, this doctrine allowed states to declare null and void a federal law that, in the state's opinion, violated the Constitution.
What is nullification?
300
Liberty, equality, democracy, civic duty, and individual responsibility.
What are the five most important elements of the American political system?
300
The landmark decision by the Supreme Court which guaranteed that first amendment rights cannot be denied by states.
What is Gitlow v. New York (1925)?
300
The case that overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine in the United States.
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
400
These two groups argued over the distribution of power at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Who are Federalists and Anti-federalists?
400
In this form of government sovereignty is wholly in the hands of the national government, so that the states and localities are dependent on its will.
What is a unitary system?
400
A belief that you are a member of an economic group whose interests are opposed to people in other such groups.
What is class consciousness?
400
The case in which the Supreme Court defended the use of the Espionage Act of 1917 and established the "clear and present danger" test.
What is Schenck v. United States (1919)?
400
These are two types of implementation: one is intended in the law, the other is based on what actually happens.
What are de jure and de facto?
500
A law that makes an act criminal although the act was legal when it was committed.
What is an ex post facto law?
500
This procedure enables voters to reject a measure passed by the legislature.
What is referendum?
500
These opposite beliefs hold that morality and religion ought to be of decisive importance, or that personal freedom and solving social problems are more important than religion.
What are orthodoxy and progressivism?
500
Burning a flag or destroying a draft card
What is symbolic speech?
500
The case that approved busing and redrawing district lines as ways of integrating public schools.
What is Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971)?