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100
The compromise that created a bicameral legislature at the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Great Compromise? 
100
The power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
100
Personal freedoms that are protected from government interference.
What are civil liberties?
100
A poll that interviews people shortly after they vote.
What is an exit poll?
100
Groups that raise money to support candidates and influence policy.
What are PACs?
200
The first constitution of the U.S., known for its weak central government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
200
The process by which Congress oversees and reviews the actions of federal agencies.
What is congressional oversight?
200
This clause prevents the government from creating an official religion.
What is the Establishment Clause?
200
A person's political values are most influenced by this process.
What is political socialization?
200
Theory that individuals make decisions by weighing the costs and benefits of different options to maximize their self-interest.
What is Rational Choice Theory?
300
Article I, Section 8 lists these powers granted specifically to Congress.
What are the enumerated powers?
300
The concept where legislators support each other's bills in exchange for mutual benefits.
What is logrolling?
300
The legal rule that prevents illegally obtained evidence from being used in court.
What is the exclusionary rule?
300
A formal set of principles and goals that outlines a party's stance on various issues, serving as a guiding framework for its policies and strategies
What is a party platform?
300
Media that focuses on sensationalism and exaggerated stories.
What is yellow journalism?
400
In Brutus No. 1, the Anti-Federalist author warned that this clause would allow the national government unlimited power.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
400
A parliamentary procedure where the entire membership of the House of Representatives (or Senate) acts as a committee to consider legislation.
What is the Committee of the Whole?
400
A prominent feminist organization in the United States that advocates for women's rights and equality.
What is the National Organization for Women?
400
This view emphasizes individual rights and freedoms, equality, and government intervention to address social and economic problems.
What is the liberal ideology?
400
The tendency for the media to focus on who is winning rather than issues.
What is horse-race journalism?
500
This foundational document argued that a large republic would best control the effects of factions.
Name the document and the specific author.
What is Federalist No. 10 by James Madison?
500
A member of Congress who adopts a voting approach that blends the delegate and trustee models of representation.
What is a Delegate Politico?
500
Supreme Court case that required states to provide attorneys to defendants who cannot afford one.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
500
This Supreme Court case held that the government may restrict contributions to political campaigns but cannot limit independent expenditures by individuals or groups, significantly shifting the ideological landscape around campaign finance.
What is Buckley v. Valeo (1976)?
500
Theory that the media influences what topics the public thinks about, not what they think.
What is agenda-setting?
