Unit 1
Lack of executive, lack of respect of currency between states, each state had 1 vote, unanimity for amendment, 2/3rds vote to do anything, lack of authority to collect taxes, etc.
What are flaws of the articles of confederation?
Control of the rules committee, size of this body of government, and lack of a filibuster are advantages of which portion of the legislative branch's majority party.
What are the advantages of having house of representatives under your party?
Also remember leader of HoR is called speaker of the house while leader of the senate is called president pro tempore.
A court case regarding speech rights that first determined that in the future the federal requirements for protection of speech could be incorporated to the states through the 14th amendment due process clause. It ruled that speech could be regulated if it presented a clear and present danger, in this case in reference to encouraging others to ignore the draft.
What is Schenck v. United States?
Ideology, national political culture, party affiliations, policy preferences, voter behavior, and engagement and cultural expression make up this concept.
What is the political self?
Medical care for the poor.
What is Medicaide?
these are all the sources of insight for the writing of the constitution
what are social contract theories, English and classical republicanism, colonial and state governments, and the protestant church
Getting appropriations to add unrelated things added to a bill to get other members of congress to voted for a bill.
What is pork barreling?
Log rolling is just trading support for bills
A court case that determined that students do not loose the right to political speech when they enter school property.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
The American political value that ____ cannot be regulated.
what is RIGHTS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT?
Political parties, elections, boycotts, interest groups, and protests are all examples of these.
what are linkage institutions?
The rise of factions is inevitable because of humans' nature to group up to limit the bad effects of factions place wise, virtuous people in positions of power, don't use a pure democracy instead a representative system, have a larger and more diverse country, and make sure both the majority and minority have power.
What is the reasoning of Federalist paper 10, written by James Madison?
Separation of powers is essential in government to a degree but this is impractical so violations of separation of powers in each branch as well as methods to protect each branch's sphere of power is the best route. Taking advantage of human ambition to allow each branch to undermine another. Self Interest to protect tyranny. The concept of double security, undermining between federal and state governments and between branches. This is the reasoning from a federalist paper (which one?).
What is the reasoning of Federalist 51 written by James Madison?
"one person one vote" this is a court case about gerrymandering that decided under the 14th amendment gerrymandering or not redistricting could be a constitutionally impermissible if one person does not equal roughly one vote.
What is Baker v. Carr?
The idea that giving into many interest groups government is weakened and does not actually get the perspectives of different diverse groups.
VAP and VEP respectively.
What are the acronyms for voting adult population and voting eligible population?
The supremacy clause, which states that the constitution is above the federal law which is above the state law which is above any regional law, is in this article of the constitution.
What is Article VI of the constitution?
Commander in chief, creation of treaties, nominations of ambassadors, receiving of ambassadors, and diplomatic relations with other governments.
What are the Foreign powers of the president?
A case which decided that gerrymandering may be constitutionally impermissible if the only factor considered in the district was race.
What is Shaw v. Reno?
Emotive increase of hostility, dislike and fear of those in the political opposition.
What is affective polarization?
The idea that a party as a whole is responsible for the mistakes of any one party member in a position of power.
What is collective responsibility?
The layer cake or 'dual federalism', which states that different levels of government should have fully separate jurisdictions like layer cakes, the marble cake or 'cooperative federalism', which states that governance takes cooperation of both federal and state laws working together in harmony, and cookies sheet or 'fiscal federalism' which states that the federal government gives dough to states with some limitations and then states do more specific things.
What are the theories of federalism?
The EPA and NASA are both this kind of agency
What are independent agencies?
A case which decided that the 2nd amendment applies for common modern firearms.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
A poll that happens once a week for a while over time.
What is a tracking poll?
This is the most important factor in any campaign.
What is incumbency?