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This political ideology, belonging to public figures such as Liz Cheney, Mike Pence, and Ron DeSantis, emphasis limited government.
What is conservatism?
This Article of the Constitution describes interstate relations.
What is Article IV?
This function of the media can keep politicians out of trouble, just don't ask them to sit or give them a bone
What is watchdog?
This is the only institution in government that can initiate both tax legislation and impeachments.
What is the House of Representatives?
This clause of the First Amendment prohibits school prayer.
What is the establishment clause?
The phenomenon where men and women tend to support candidates of different political parties, first appearing in the 1980 presidential election.
What is the gender gap?
Feeling hungry? This model of federalism, in which states and the federal government have intersecting, overlapping responsibilities, may just satisfy your appetite.
What is cooperative/marble-cake federalism?
This interest group strategy involves mass mailing, letter-writing, and using social media to reach as large an audience as possible, and then have them contact government to influence policy.
What is grassroots mobilisation?
Originating from a Dutch word, this is the most famous -- or infamous -- obstruction tactic in the Senate
What is a filibuster?
Like freedom from unequal treatment because of gender, these are protected by government action, including a landmark 1965 law
What are civil rights?
While roughly 67% of this racial/ethnic group traditionally supports Democratic presidential candidates, they were notable in 2020 for increasing their support for Republicans in 2020
What are Hispanics/Latinx?
Sure, you can change the Constitution, once this many states agree to the amendment.
What is 3/4ths?
Good polls know they are inexact because they will tell you exactly how inexact they are with this statistic.
What is sampling error/margin of error?
A president in their last term, awaiting the inauguration of a new president. Just don't expect them to quack.
What is a lame duck?
This Amendment guarantees a trial by jury and the right to counsel.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This term refers to the concept in the United States that all individuals should have the same chances to be successful in life, not necessarily the same results
What is equality of opportunity?
Roger Sherman of this state proposed a compromise at the Constitutional Convention that answered the question of how states would be represented in the Legislature
What is Connecticut?
Sometimes you get a new party in power, sometimes you get a new electoral coalition, but either way, it is this kind of election is a "big deal."
What is a critical/realigning election?
While you can certainly protest on the steps of the Supreme Court, if you really want the justices to listen to you, you'd better file one of these instead.
What are amicus briefs?
If this type of speech causes violence as soon as it is uttered, it certainly fails this Schenck-era test.
What is the "clear and present danger" test?
Conservative Christians supported Donald Trump in 2016, in hopes he would appoint members of the judiciary willing to overturn this 1973 decision.
What is Roe v. Wade?
Sometimes the federal government uses these "punishments" to influence policy in a completely different and unrelated policy area.
What are crossover sanctions?
You won't stop them with kryptonite, but this independent, expenditure-only entity spends big in elections and influences policy on behalf of special interests.
What is a superPAC?
This 1939 law prevents certain government employees from engaging in political activity, and ensures they advance based on merit
What is the Hatch Act?
This doctrine, overturned in Brown v. Board in 1954, justified segregated facilities, as long as they were, or at least purported to be, equivalent to one another
What is "separate but equal?"