Policy
The protection of human rights and democracy
What is U.S. foreign Policy
The federal health insurance program for: People who are 65 or older. Certain younger people with disabilities
What is Medicare
A state that conducts its policy in a dangerously unpredictable way, disregarding international law or diplomacy
What is a Rogue State
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration
What is the 16th Amendment
Strengthened presidential war powers
What is the War Powers Resolution
This kept communism from spreading during the cold war
What is Containment
This includes law enforcement, national defense, and the rule of law
What are Public Goods
This was drafted because the U.S. government was worried that European powers would encroach on the western hemisphere
What is The Monroe Doctrine
The fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory
What is a right
Creates an incentive for the branches to cooperate
What is Shared Power
This refers to the laws, the actions of the government, the funding priorities and the regulations that reflect given positions, attitudes, cultural ideals or accepted rules
What is Public Policy
A health insurance program for people who cannot afford regular medical care and are disabled or pregnant
What is Medicaid
Truman was worried that if Korea fell, the next country to fall would be Japan, which was very important for American trade. This was probably the most important reason for America's involvement in this war
What is The Korean War
This is the belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges
What is “entitlement”
A phenomenon in which women represent a disproportionate percentage of the world's poor
What is Feminization of Poverty
This aims to improve human welfare and to meet human needs for education, health, housing and economic security
What is Social Policy and Its Goals
The kind of “benefits” include life insurance, Health Insurance, Retirement Benefits, Childcare, Use of a company car, ect.
What are In Kind Benefits
This was influenced by the Soviet launch of the satellite Sputnik on October 4, 1957. U.S. citizens feared that education in the USSR was superior to that in the United States, and Congress reacted by adding this act to bring U.S. schools up to speed
What is the “National Defense Education Act”
In this case the Court held that states must afford public aid recipients a pre-termination evidentiary hearing before discontinuing their aid
What is Goldberg v Kelly
This eliminates all tariff and non-tariff barriers of trade and investment between the United States, Canada and Mexico.
What is NAFTA
House Members and senators tend to be less active on foreign policy matters than domestic ones because
why do “Constituents are more directly affected by domestic policy topics than foreign ones”
This Act held schools accountable for how kids learned and achieved. This Act was controversial in part because it penalized schools that didn't show improvement.
What is the No child left behind act
This generally refers to threats of military retaliation directed by the leaders of one state to the leaders of another in an attempt to prevent the other state from resorting to the use of military force in pursuit of its foreign policy goals
What is Deterrence
This represents nearly two-thirds of annual federal spending
What is Mandatory Spending
An international trade agreement whose objectives are to help raise standards of living; to achieve full employment; to develop the world's resources; to expand production and exchange of goods; to promote economic development
What is GATT