Term used to describe powers shared by the national and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
100
This is a requirement by the national government that states must meet,.
What is a mandate?
100
Regents of the U. of California v. Bakke (1978), Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Fisher v. Texas (2013, 2016) 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An outdated party organization that recruits members by dispensing patronage. Famous in Chicago and New York.
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 taken at the same time.
What is a sampling error?
200
This word describes the set of groups that a political party draws together to form its membership.
What is a coalition?
300
This uprising of Revolutionary War veterans brought attention to several weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
300
This is a 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
This Article would be part of a Supreme Court decision about a conflict between federal and state laws.
What is Article VI (the Supremacy Clause)?
400
This landmark case held a national ban on guns in a school zone had exceeded Congressional authority to regulate interstate commerce.
What is U.S. v. Lopez (1995)?
400
This landmark SCOTUS case said the First Amendment applies to the states, thereby beginning the process of selective incorporation.
What is Gitlow v. New York (1925)?
400
This is the approximate level of participation in Presidential general elections, when participation levels are highest.
What is 50%?
400
This political party challenged the Jacksonian Democrats, but the Democrats typically dominated politically throughout this party era.
What was the Whig party?
500
This political philosopher was most known among the Founding Fathers for promoting the separation of powers, religious toleration, checks and balances among others.
Who is John Locke?
500
Landmark case that held all interstate commerce will be regulated by the national government.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
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
Party leaders and elected officials who automatically become delegates to the national convention - only in the Democratic party.