Foundations of Democracy
The Enlightenment Philosopher who stated that government derives its power from the governed, and that the government should protect natural rights-life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
Best described as weak, this first attempt at government had only a unicameral legislature. Shays' Rebellion highlighted the need to make a change.
The Articles of Confederation
This clause found in Article IV says that states must honor the "public acts, records, and judicial rulings of other states."
The Full Faith and Credit Clause
Term that describes the process by which people learn their values and beliefs about political culture.
Political Socialization
These are the permanent committees in Congress.
Standing Committees
The type of government in which elected representatives are responsible for making laws.
Representative or Indirect Democracy
The Great Compromise
This is the type of federalism where there are clear divisions between the the responsibilities of the federal government and state governments.
Dual Federalism (Layer Cake)
Elections, political parties, interest groups, and the media are included in this term that describes how citizens connect to their government.
Linkage Institutions
This committee puts bills into the proper committee, sets rules for debate, and schedules debate for a bill.
House Rules Committee
The theory that states resources are so widely scattered in society that no one group can hold too much power.
Pluralist Theory
This was a compromise between large slaveholding states in the South and smaller states with less slaves in the North. It allowed slaves to count as 3/5 for taxation and representation.
3/5 Compromise
These grants are specific in nature and usually require states to provide some money of their own.
Categorical Grants
This term describes the fact that important political issues may change for a person depending on the stage of life in which they find themselves.
Life Cycle Events
These types of bills must originate in the House.
Taxing and Spending
The theory of power in which government decisions are controlled by small, but powerful groups.
Elite Theory
This was a compromise between direct popular election of the president and the House of Representatives choosing the president.
The Electoral College
Done during the Reagan Administration, this term describes when the federal government began to shift some responsibility and power for domestic programs back to states.
Devolution
These promote a particular area of policy, they recruit paying members, raise money, and give that money to independent expenditure organizations that align with their policy goals.
The House has this power, which allows for charges to be placed against an elected official in the executive branch.
Impeachment
This term, which means that the people are the source of governmental power, is a key feature of the Declaration of Independence.
Popular Sovereignty
This clause provides the justification for implied powers.
The Necessary and Proper Clause
Cooperative Federalism (Marble Cake)
_____________link interest groups with politicians who share their policy goals.
Lobbyists
This is the term applied to extra spending attached to bills that bring benefits back to a representative's home district.
Pork Barrel Spending