Unit 1
Groups interested with one specific issue and who vote accordingly
What are single issue groups?
This is best defined as guidelines issued by government agencies, which provide specific details about how a policy will be implemented.
What is Bureaucratic rule-making?
This document asserts the rights of citizens and protect groups from discrimination.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the idea that there is a body (Judiciary) that applies laws equally and fairly and No one is above the law.
What is the Rule of Law?
This is the long-term relationships between agencies, congressional committees, and interest groups in specific policy areas.
What are iron triangles?
The basis of the Constitution, laws of National Government that are consistent with the Constitution, and Treaties being the supreme law of the land come from this clause.
What is the supremacy clause?
Judicial review was established in this court case.
What is Marbury v Madison?
This Amendment and its principles that all people should be equal under the law, inspired Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From A Birmingham Jail."
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
What is family?
Social movements, political parties, and interest groups are all examples of this.
What are linkage institutions?
Democracies must practice this, and it requires that policies should reflect the will of over half the population.
What is majority rule?
This case extended the right to an attorney for everyone accused of a felony in a state court.
What is Gideon v Wainwright?
A suspect's phone being analyzed by police before a warrant is issued would be a violation of this Amendment.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This is the process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census.
What is reapportionment?
The Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments serve to to eliminate this issue.
What is political discrimination?
This concept refers to the transfer of of responsibility for policies from the federal government to state and local governments.
What is devolution?
The Court extended the Second Amendment's limits on restricting an individual's right to bear arms to state and local gun control laws in this case.
What is McDonald v Chicago?
Supporters of Hamilton's view that a bill of rights could be dangerous to liberty would likely reference this case.
What is Schenk v United States?
An example of this would be Civil disobedience as a form of protest.
What is unconventional participation?
This allows citizens to register to vote more easily under the National Voter Registration Act.
What is government agency registration?
What is pluralism?
This case declared that laws that provide aid to church related schools should do the following: 1. Have a secular legislative purpose. 2. Have a primary effect that neither advances nor prohibits religion. 3. Doesn't foster an excessive government entanglement with religion.
What is Lemon v Kurtzman (1971)?
This process has been used by the Supreme Court to interpret the due process clause in such a way as to prevent states from unduly restricting fundamental freedoms.
What is selective incorporation?
This concept explains the changes in how in U.S. immigration trends, changes in birth rates, and evolving technological communication together alter how citizens evaluate government policy over time.
What are demographics?
The observation that Black Americans participate politically more often than most other racial groups in America despite their relatively lower social economic status would go against this theory's belief system.
What are Elitists?