Founding Principles
This prolonged event happened because colonists felt the King of England was acting as a tyrant, and led to the creation of the United States.
What is the Revolutionary War?
This was the group of people who feared that a strong central government would take away their personal liberties
Anti-Federalists
This ideology is currently associated with the Democratic Party
Liberal
In general, this is the most impactful factor of political socialization.
Family
This is when you redraw legislative districts to favor one group or another (could be political party, race, wealth, etc.).
Gerrymandering
This founding principle aims to break up the powers of government between three different branches.
What is the Separation of Powers?
The Anti-Federalists fought for this to be added to the Constitution
Bill of Rights
This political ideology generally favors less government involvement, meaning less taxes and less support
Religion, ethnicity, gender, and income levels, are all examples of these and they shape how people view politics.
Social Groups
In an effort to create balance against political gerrymandering in Republican states, this is a state ballot question in CA asking if citizens are OK with lifting or breaking the state law so they can also gerrymander politically.
Prop 50
This founding principle aims to give each branch powers against the others to keep any one branch from gaining too much power.
Checks and Balances
This compromise determined how slaves would count towards state populations when determining the number of a state's representatives in the federal legislature
Three-Fifths Compromise
This is the phenomenon when the beliefs of political parties grow further apart
Political Polarization
This model of political socialization says that beliefs are passed on from generation to generation.
Transmission Model
After this decennial event is the normal time that states redraw congressional districts.
Census
Shay's Rebellion showed the problems associated with this document
Articles of Confederation
This compromise created a bicameral legislature, one house with equal representation from the states and the other with proportional representation.
Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)
These geographic divides currently mirror the divide between Republicans and Democrats (it is used to be North vs South)
Urban vs Rural
This phrase alludes to how news has been blurred with entertainment on various media platforms to gain viewers.
Infotainment
This Supreme Court case from 2024 said that you have to prove race is the motivation and not political party affiliation for gerrymandering for it to be wrong.
Alexander v. S. Carolina St. NAACP
This theory states that people give leaders power and therefore have the right to resist or remove leaders who do not serve the people.
Social Contract Theory
This was the result of a compromise over the issue of electing the President, they didn't trust the people to elect good candidates, but also didn't want to give all the power to Congress to appoint one.
Electoral College
This system is why the United States currently has a two party system.
Winner-take-all system (or First-past-the-post)
The repealing of this doctrine in 1987 led to the legal politicization of different news outlets
Fairness Doctrine
This Supreme Court case from 1994 said that redistricting by race was wrong even if it was helping historically oppressed peoples.
What is Shaw v. Reno (1994)