The Constitution and Articles of Confederation
Compromise that determined representation of states in the House and Senate.
What is the Great Compromise or Connecticut Compromise?
This is the Supreme Court case that limited our freedom of speech in time of war.
What is Schenck V. U.S.?
This is the author of Federalist 10.
What is James Madison?
This is the political party that women typically favor.
What is the democratic party?
Describes a transfer of responsibilities from federal to state governments.
What is devolution?
This conflict demonstrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and prompted the Constitutional Convention
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This is the clause and amendment was used as a base in Brown V. Board of Education.
What is the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment?
This is the paper written by Alexander Hamilton that discusses judicial review and suggests that judges should serve for life.
What is Federalist 78?
This is the type of primary that only allows registered members of a political party to vote.
What is a closed primary?
This term would describe the type of grants given to states specifically for pre-kindergarten.
What are categorical grants?
Part of the Constitution that describes the powers of Congress (Article and Section)
What is Article 1, Section 8?
This is the Amendment and clause used to affirm a women's "right to privacy" in Roe v Wade.
What is the due process clause of the 14th Amendment?
These are the two ways James Madison suggests the government can control factions?
What are remove their causes and control their affects.
This is a political party that believes in limited government. They are liberal on social issues and fiscally conservative.
What is the Libertarian Party?
This is the term to describe the belief that your votes matter.
What is political efficacy?
These are three formal powers of the president
What are ...
Make treaties
Appoint executive and judicial officials, including ambassadors
Veto laws
Call special sessions of Congress
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Force
Issue reprieves and pardons
Update Congress on the State of the Union
Receive Ambassadors and other public ministers
This is the amendment that was affirmed with Gideon v Wainwright.
What is the 6th Amendment?
This federalist paper states that ¨If men were angels, no government would be necessary.¨
What is Federalist 51?
This term refers to independent groups that raise large sums of money for candidates separate of political campaigns.
What are super PACs?
Term to describe an agreement between citizens and the government. The government agrees to protect basic rights and citizens agree to follow laws.
What is a social contract?
These are 3 weaknesses of the Articles of the Confederations.
What is
This is the act that was being argued about in Citizens United V. FEC.
What is the the McCain-Feingold Act (Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act)?
These are two concerns noted in Brutus I about the Constitution.
What is ...
lack of Bill of Rights to protect individual rights
the federal government is too far removed from concerns of citizens
a strong federal government might abuse its power, especially with the necessary and proper clause and supremacy clause
states will have a hard time raising money if citizens have to pay money to the federal gov too
This is the type of poll designed to disseminate negative information about an opponent.
What is a push poll?
Type of federalism in which all levels of government work together and are intertwined.
What is cooperative federalism?