Constitution
Federalism
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Public Opinion and Participation
Political Parties
100
Term used to describe powers shared by the national and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
100
Terms set by the national government that states must meet whether or not they accept federal grants.
What is a mandate?
100
Regents of the U. of California v. Bakke (1978), Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Gratz v. Bollinger (2003) all dealt with this issue.
What is affirmative action?
100
A belief that you play a role in politics and the government is responsive to the participants.
What is political efficacy?
100
An outdated party organization that recruits members by dispensing patronage.
What is a political machine?
200
This large-state contribution to the Constitutional Convention called for a strong national government.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
This concept of federalism views the national and state governments as collaborating to solve common problems.
What is cooperative federalism?
200
This rule says that illegally gathered evidence may not be introduced in a criminal trial.
What is the exclusionary rule?
200
The difference between the results of random poll samples at the same time.
What is a sampling error?
200
Which current political party is the largest? (according to individual responses)
What is the Democratic Party?
300
This uprising of Revolutionary War veterans brought attention to several weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
300
Type of federal grant for a specific purpose.
What is a categorical grant?
300
These two clauses in the First Amendment make up what is generally understood as Americans' "freedom of religion."
What are free exercise and establishment clauses?
300
The process by which a person forms his or her political views.
What is political socialization?
300
A period when a significant shift occurs in the coalitions of national political parties.
What is a realignment (or critical period)?
400

The specific powers of the federal government listed in Article I of the Constitution are known as these.

What are "enumerated powers"?

400
Landmark case that held a national ban on guns in a school zone had violated the commerce clause.
What is U.S. v. Lopez (1995)?
400

These are the two selective incorporation cases we studied this year.

What are McDonald v. Chicago (2010) and Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)?

400

This is typically the strongest agent of political socialization.

What is family?

400

Political parties and these two other groups work collaboratively to form "iron triangles."

What interest groups and bureaucratic agencies?

500

States each have 2 members in the Senate based on this.

What is equal representation?

500

Powers not granted to the federal government in the Constitution are reserved for the states by this amendment.

What is the 10th Amendment?

500
This landmark case's majority opinion created the "clear and present danger test" to analyze future free speech cases.
What is Schenck v. United States (1919)?
500
This law - requiring states to allow citizens to register to vote at the DMV - increased voter registration dramatically.
What is the motor-voter law? (National Voter Registration Act of 1993)
500

This the primary goal of political parties.

What is to win elections and get candidates elected?

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