The Constitution and Federalism
The division of power between state and national governments.
What is Federalism?
The idea that the people voluntarily give their governments power to ensure an orderly and functioning society.
What is the social contract?
The three branches of government.
What is the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
Rules and regulations that slow the progress of the federal government.
What is red tape?
The process by which the Bill of Rights has come to apply to the states.
What is Selective Incorporation?
The amendment that creates the "reserved powers" doctrine.
What is the tenth?
Locke argued that human beings are born with these that cannot be infringed upon.
What are natural rights?
The intentional use of redistricting to benefit a specific interest or group of voters.
What is Gerrymandering?
People that are employed by the federal government to work in the several cabinet departments.
What are federal bureaucrats?
The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
People who supported the Constitution ONLY if a Bill of Rights was added.
What are Anti-Federalists?
The idea that the government's right to rule comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
An order signed by the president with the full force of law.
What is an executive order?
The relationship between interest groups, congress, and the bureaucracy.
What is an iron triangle?
This clause of the fourteenth amendment justifies selective incorporation.
What is the due process clause?
In Federalist 10, James Madison argues that these are the two ways to deal with factions.
What is removing their causes or controlling their effects?
The three theories of democracy.
What are participatory, elitist, and pluralist?
This court case created the doctrine of "Judicial Review"
What is Marbury v Madison?
An example of checks and balances that occurs when congress investigates a policy or practice done by the bureaucracy.
What is congressional oversight?
This Supreme Court case found that the government cannot restrict speech unless it presents a clear and present danger.
What is Schenck v United States?
These are powers explicitly given to the national government.
What are enumerated or expressed powers?
The three ideas that shape American Political Culture, our "natural rights."
What are life, liberty, and property?
How the Supreme Court decides which cases to take.
What is a writ of certiorari? (pronunciation counts)
The filling of administrative positions as a reward for support, rather than merit. Hint: Andrew Jackson.
What is political patronage?
The organization founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in the late 19th century to advance the rights of African Americans
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?