What are the 3 parts of the Iron Triangle?
Interest group, congress, bureaucracy
Name one main point from the Declaration of Independence
Natural Rights, Popular sovereignty, social contract, consent of the governed
What is the Constitutional Principle of McCulloch v Maryland?
Necessary and Proper Clause
What is a categorical grant?
national funding that is restricted to specific categories of expenditures, is preferred by the national government, and is the most commonly used form of funding
What is the the idea that your vote actually matters?
Political Efficacy
What are time place and manner regulations in regards to free speech?
regulators that ensure speech in a neutral context
Which document talks about factions?
Fed 10
What is the Constitutional Principle of Baker v Carr?
14th Amendment EPC
What is selective incorporation?
How the Bill of RIghts is applied to the states
What amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18?
26th Amendment
Describe the Free Rider Problem
When someone enjoys the benefits of something without contributing to it in any way
Which document talks about the executive branch? What does it say about the executive in this document?
Fed 70, Energetic executive
Describe the decision of NYT v United States
I shall decide if it is right
How are exit polls used?
They are used at polling cites asking people how they voted
Describe how liberals tend to feel about voter ID laws.
I will decide
The Supreme Court case of Mapp v Ohio established this important 4th amendment process in regards to evidence.
What is the exclusionary rule?
This document talks about separation of powers and checks and balances. ALSO, who wrote it?
Fed 51, James Madison
What was being upheld in Schenck v US (personal liberty or social order). AND What did the court decide?
social order. They decided you cannot promote rebellion
Worried that states would not be able to select competent choices to serve as the chief executive in this process electors were selected by states and "directed" by the popular vote to select a president.
What is the electoral college?
What does it mean to be a lobbyist?
Someone who works with congress to write/change legislation
What are 3 of the 6 factors of political socialization?
Family, schools, peers, media, religion, globalization, civic groups
“If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.”
Fed 51
I will decide if it is correct
Name 3 things the Senate has to approve of from the Executive Branch.
SCOTUS, Ambassadors, Cabinet, Treaties
What are 2 things that would be found in the Republican party platform?
I shall decide