Campaigning & Voting
Theories of Government
Constitution
Civil Liberties
Civil Rights
100
Very well organized political system divided into 50 blocks. You used to be able to get a beer or some turkey if you voted. Today, neither party is this organized.
What is Chicago Ward-style Politics?
100
This English Enlightenment thinker advocated Natural Rights (life, liberty, property). He believed that consent to being governed would be the best way to ensure these rights.
Who is John Locke?
100
This device of intended to provide a compromise between people who wanted small government and people who did not. This makes it harder for any one group to dominate government.
What is Separation of Powers?
100
State can't deprive their citizens of life, liberty, or property without due process of laws. It applies to STATES now (that's how it's different from the 5th Amendment). This was in direct response to Baron v Baltimore 1833.
What is the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause?
100
These cases extended the Equal Protection Clause to private business, but this only lasted for 10 years.
What are the Slaughterhouse cases 1873?
200
When parties make compromises to appeal to the moderate, middle voters. This softens extremists.
What are Broker Compromises?
200
This theory of government forces citizens under its power. Examples are authoritarian and totalitarian governments in China and North Korea, respectively.
What is the Force Theory?
200
1. House is based on population and Senate is each state equally 2. Each slave is worth 3/5 of a person for census purposes 3. Commerce and Slave trade - let's not touch this issue for 20 years until 1808
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
200
This court case extended the 6th Amendment (right to lawyer) to the states.
What is Gidean v Wainwright 1963?
200
This court case, met with massive resistance, overturned Plessy v Ferguson 1896 & said that separate but equal facilities are unconstitutional.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
300
This court case upheld the limitations on hard money donations. Also said you personally could spend any amount of money on your own campaign under the 1st amendment.
What is Buckley v Valeo 1976?
300
This is an alliance of independent states with limited government. A current example would be the European Union.
What is a Confederation?
300
Says that Congress can't pass laws that reach a judicial conclusion -- "bears are killing my cattle, i kill a bear, congress can't make a law that decides my guilt". Example of separation of powers between legislative and judicial.
What is Bill of Attainder?
300
This case, which outlawed abortion restrictions, argues that there IS a right to privacy in the Constitution based on certain "penumbras" (connections) between the 3rd (no quartering troops), 4th (no search and seizure), and 5th (due process) Amendments.
What is Roe v Wade 1973?
300
This act established the Civil Rights Commission, but was not very effective.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
400
This amendment to the constitution made the voting age 18 in the US.
What is the 26th Amendment?
400
This is the author of "Leviathan" who thought life without government would be terrible and bleak and advocated strong government.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
400
In a feud between state government and federal government, federal government will win. McCulloch v Maryland is an example of this.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
400
This exception to the 4th Amendment stated that if the evidence that is being excluded under Mapp v Ohio definitely would have been discovered with a valid search warrant, then it is still admissible in court.
What is the Inevitable Discovery Exception?
400
This component of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made employment discrimination illegal.
What is Title 7?
500
This court case upheld that outside groups could spend as much money as they wanted as long as they were not affiliated with the official campaigns.
What is Citizens United 2010?
500
This theory states that government is formed by and with consent of the governed. An example is the US.
What is the Social Contract Theory?
500
This court case, involving a wheat farmer, broadened the scope of the Commerce Clause so that it would apply to intrastate trade as well as interstate trade.
What is Wickard v Filburn 1942?
500
This court case established that you could not engage in speech that presented a "clear and present danger" by hindering military efforts.
What is Schenck v US 1919?
500
This court case said the court would not mandate bussing to schools that are in urban areas like Chicago, and effectively ended the bussing program.
What is Milliken v Bradley 1974?
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