Foundations of Democracy
Political philosophers (2) who are key to the ideologies presented in the Declaration
Who are John Locke and Thomas Hobbs?
The act that established 435 as the set number of Representatives within the House of Representatives.
What is the Reapportionment Act of 1929?
This person was a member of the Black Panther Organization. They believed in keeping segregation due to the fact that there was a large amount of white people who did not want to be around African Americans, so why force them to be in places together.
The way in which we come to have our views on the political world.
What is political socialization?
This Amendment expanded voting to all genders
What is the 19th Amendment?
The number of Articles within the United States Constitution
The drawing of voting districts to give advantage to one political party; the Governor may choose someone to draw these lines.
What is Gerrymandering?
What is De Facto Segregation?
Where and when a public opinion poll takes place, the people asked, and the questions that are asked are examples of
What are biases?
Voting based upon predictions of how a party candidate will perform in the future.
What is Prospective voting?
The key human rights listed within the Declaration of Independence
What are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
The amount of votes needed to overrule a Presidential veto in Congress.
What is a 2/3s majority?
This Amendment gave all races the right to vote within the United States.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Connects us to the government
What are linkage institutions?
The amendment that lowered the voting age to 18
What is the 26th Amendment?
Key weaknesses within the Articles of Confederation(multiple answers, but 3 main ones)
What are no federal military, no federal taxes and each state having its own currency?
Someone who does not use their own opinion or the opinion of their constituents, but rather does what would be best for their political party
What is a politico?
The set of Amendments included after the ratification of the Constitution to ensure that all people kept their civil liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Based on an idea of supply-side economics; control economy by customer demand, to spark economy need to increase the demand for a product.
What are Keynesian policies?
The media, interest groups, PACs, political parties and campaign signs are all examples of
What are linkage institutions?
The compromise between large and small states creating the bicameral legislative branch we know today. One Branch was equal representation for the states no matter what the population was (benefiting smaller states), and the other was representation based upon the population (benefiting the larger states).
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
The first three people, after the President, on the Presidential Succession List.
Who are the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate?
The concept of sticking with the original rulings given in the Supreme Court.
What is stare decisis?
The Central Banking System of the United States, a.k.a. The Fed
What is the Federal Reserve?
A Supreme Court case focusing on the McCain-Feingold Act. FEC wanted to block the movie "Hillary" (a movie about Hillary Clinton and her running for President). Ruled that the movie would violate campaign spending guide laws under the McCain-Feingold Act, and therefore the propaganda/spending is not allowed.
What is Citizens United v FEC?