Vocabulary
Agreement between the parties to work together in Congress to pass legislation.
What is bipartisanship?
The right to life, liberty, and property.
What is natural rights?
The clause that says the Constitution and Federal laws are the supreme laws of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
A political party that supports abortion rights, civil rights, and more government spending.
What is the Democratic Party?
It gives Americans the right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
The process by which individuals learn and frequently internalize a political lens.
What is political socialization?
An unofficial agreement between the people and government in which the government must protect the natural rights of its citizens.
What is the social contract theory?
The branch of government that checks if a law is constitutional or not.
What is the judicial branch?
A group of presidential electors that is formed every four years for the sole purpose of voting for the President and Vice President.
What is the electoral college?
It gives Americans freedom to speak, protest, and practice any religion they want.
What is the 1st Amendment?
A U.S. federal agency that requires male citizens and immigrants aged 18-25 to register for a potential draft in a national emergency.
What is the Selective Service System?
A quote from the constitution giving popular sovereignty vibes.
What is “We the people”?
The principle of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches.
What is checks and balances?
A meeting of political party members to select candidates to represent their party in the general election.
What is a caucus?
Mr. Kludjian is being accused of a crime, but wants to remain silent to protect himself from self-incrimination.
What is the 5th Amendment?
This branch of government can approve or disapprove of Presidential picks for the cabinet.
What is the Senate?
The most important determining factor of political party affiliation.
What is family?
This agreement created a bicameral Congress with two houses: the House of Representatives with proportional representation based on population, and the Senate with equal representation (two senators) for each state.
What is the Great Compromise?
An act to refuse to work with the opposite political party.
What is partisanship?
This forces states to respect each other's official records and public acts, such as high school diplomas, drivers' licenses, and marriages.
What is the Full faith and credit clause?
A political party where there is an issue they are passionate about that isn’t being addressed.
What are Single-issue (one-trick pony) parties?
The most important determining factor of political party affiliation.
What is a primary or a caucus?
This document made the US government weak during the nation's early years.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
These parties can take away votes from the big parties, causing an election to swing.
What are Third Parties?
This establishes the process for amending the Constitution either by a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress or by a convention called at the application of two-thirds of the states.
What is Article 5?