Unit 1 - Democracy & the Constitution
The first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
The system where each branch has a check on the other branches to ensure no one branch gets too much power.
What is the system of checks and balances?
Amendments that make up the Miranda Rights, the rights that are recited to you upon arrest.
What are the 5th and 6th Amendments?
These give estimates or guesses about how an election will turn out or how a policy will be viewed by the public.
What are polls?
This major political party is considered liberal.
What is the Democratic Party?
This branch of government is the branch the founders thought would be the weakest of the three branches, without the power of the pen or the sword
What is the Judicial Branch?
Term used to describe powers shared by the national and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
This is when people consistently vote for their political party and support all agendas and initiatives introduced by that party.
What is party-line voting?
These are the variety institutions that allow citizens to participate in government.
What are linkage institutions?
This type of democracy allows citizens to engage in government through different groups and institutions
What is a pluralist democracy?
This current trend is where political campaigns focus more on the likeability of the candidate and not on the agenda of the their associated political party.
What are Candidate-Centered Campaigns?
This article and section of the Consitution list the Enumerated Powers of Congress
Article I section 8
The process by which the rights and protections guaranteed by the federal government are also guaranteed by the state governments on a case by case basis.
What is selective incorporation?
This is the principle that states people running for re-election of an office they already hold are more likely to win than their challengers.
What is the Incumbency Advantage Phenomenon?
These are elections where political parties determine who will run from their party in the general elections.
What are primaries?
This uprising of Revolutionary War veterans brought attention to several weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
A consistent relationship between an interest group, a congressional committee, and a federal agency.
What is an Iron Triangle?
This theory suggests that lowered taxes, limited government intervention, and free trade will make an economy more efficient.
What is supply-side economics?
This type of voting system is why the United States only has two major political parties, and very little third party representation.
What is the Winner-Take-All Voting System?