Amendments
The Amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
A state has electoral votes equal to the number of its
House members and senators.
Informal groups of like-minded congress members (by ideology, race, etc.) who meet to discuss relevant issues
What is a congressional caucus?
This allows the President to veto PARTS of a spending bill without having to veto the entire bill. The SCOTUS declared this power unconstitutional
line-item veto
This Supreme Court Case stablished that people’s rights to the 1st amendment’s Free Exercise Clause outweigh the State's interests in requiring school attendance beyond the eighth grade.
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
The Amendment that applies the Bill of rights to the states.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Instead of 'hard money', this refers to "party-building" activities that often indirectly endorse a candidate.
What is soft money?
Persons who keep their party's members of Congress "in line" to vote for the party's priorities
What is a "whip"?
This is the name of the time period Presidents have the most success getting their agenda passed. (And the period after your wedding.)
honeymoon period
This case said redistricting issues present justiciable questions, thus enabling federal courts to intervene in and to decide redistricting cases.
What is Baker v. Carr?
Name the Amendment-"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted."
What is the Eighth Amendment?
The best predictor of voter turnout is
Age
The total number of members in Congress
What is 535?
15 executive departments created to advise the president and operate a policy area
What is the Cabinet?
The ruling for this case said an individual has the right to a lawyer in a state trial, given by the 6th amendment
What is the Gideon v. Wainwright?
Amendment addresses rights, retained by the people, that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution
What is the 9th amendment?
On the issue of taxes, Republicans generally want them to be ______
Lower
________ has the exclusive power to choose the President in the event that a presidential candidate fails to get a majority of the Electoral College votes.
What is the House of Representatives?
A presidential command with the force of the law and does not require congressional approval.
What is an executive order?
This case asked whether a man’s conviction under the Espionage Act for criticizing the draft violate his First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
What is Schenck v. US?
Amendment giving 18-year-olds the right to vote.
What is the 26th?
A primary election in which voters are required to identify a party preference and are not allowed to split their ticket.
What is a closed primary?
Talking or debating a bill for so long, that it dies without being voted upon
What is a filibuster?
These three groups make up the Iron Triangle
What are 1. Congress/Committee 2. Bureaucratic agency/department 3. Interest Group?
In this case the court considered whether North Carolina residents' claim, that the State created a racially gerrymandered district, raised a valid constitutional issue under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
What is Shaw v. Reno?