Constitutional Clauses
The clause that makes the federal government have more power over the states.
What is the supremacy clause?
The act that makes racial discrimination in hotels and restaurants illegal and forbids job discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The amendment that guarantees the rights to freedom of religion, assembly, press, petition, and speech.
What is the first amendment?
The funds obtained by political parties that are spent on party activities, such as get-out-the-vote drives, but not on behalf of a specific candidate.
What is soft money?
A theory that suggests that no single group can dominate.
What is the pluralist theory?
The clause that allows Congress to make any law that is "necessary and proper" for carrying out its duties.
What is the necessary and proper (elastic) clause?
What is the Americans With Disabillities Act?
The amendment that guarantees a fair and speedy trial.
What is the sixth amendment?
The political contributions given to a party, candidate, or interest group that are limited in amount and fully disclosed.
What is hard money?
The process that permits voters to put legislative measures directly on the ballot.
What is initiative?
The clause that requires states to respect the public acts, records, and proceedings of every other state.
What is the full faith and credit clause?
The legislation that bans gender discrimination in schools that receive federal funds.
What is Title IX?
The amendment that establishes the process for electing senators.
What is the seventeenth amendment?
The political channels through which people's concerns become political issues on the policy agenda; "link" people to the United States government.
What are linkage institutions?
The Latin word meaning "let the decision stand".
What is stare decisis?
The clause that prevents a state from treating citizens of other states in a discriminatory manner.
What is the privileges and immunities clause?
What is the McCain-Feingold Act?
The amendment that established Congress beginning on January 3rd and the Presidency beginning on January 20th.
What is the twentieth amendment?
The political funding vehicles created by the 1974 campaign finance reforms.
What are political action committees (PACs)?
The powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution but are inferred from it.
What are inherent powers?
The clause that provides for the return of persons charged with a crime in one state who fled to another state.
What is the extradition clause?
The legislation that prohibits government employees from participation in partisan politics.
What is the Hatch Act?
The amendment that details the rule of presidential succession.
What is the twenty-fifth amendment?
A type of U.S. tax-exempt organization organized under Section 527 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 527).
What is a 527?
The spending about which Congress is free to make choices.
What is discretionary spending?