Unit 1
What is bicameral legislature?
two houses
What is the revolution of change to a bill, law, or constitution?
Amendment
What is defamation in verbal form?
Slander
What are some powers between the national government and the state?
Federalism
What is an organization formed to influence policy making?
Interest Groups
What is the power of the legislature, executive, and judicial branches of government to block some acts by the other two branches?
Checks and balances
What was the law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of job discrimination?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
What is a clause in the First Amendment, which lets citizens believe what they want?
Free Exercise Clause.
Which Amendment guarantees all powers not given to the national government or denied to the states?
10th Amendment
What is a group or clique within a larger group, party, or government.
Factions
What court case established judicial review?
Marbury V. Madison
What is the process of reorganizing the seats in Congress called?
Reapportionment
What is censorship before publication?
Prior Restraint
What is a group of persons who seek to control government through winning of elections and holding of office?
Poltical Party
What is a person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to try to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches.
Lobbyist
What is the theory that says that people give away some of their rights to a government so the government can protect their natural rights and other rights?
Social Contract Theory.
What is a strategy unique to the Senate whereby opponents of a piece of legislation try to talk it to death, based on unlimited debate?
Filibuster
What are freedoms that protect the individual from the government?
Civil Liberties
What is a process in which citizens propose an amendment by gathering a required number of signatures on the petition?
Constitutional Initiative
What is potential members fail to join a group because they can get the benefit, or collective good, sought by the group without contributing the effort.
Free Rider Problem
What are powers of the federal government that go beyond those in the Constitution called? Give an example for Congress?
Implied Powers; (e.g. congressional oversight, create a national bank, approve treaties, set minimum wage)
What are party leaders who work with the majority or minority leader to count votes beforehand and lean on waverers whose votes are crucial to a bill favored by the party?
Whip
What is an exception to the Supreme Court exclusionary rule, holding that evidence seized on the basis of a mistakenly issued search warrant can be introduced at trial if the mistake was made in good faith, that is, if all the parties involved had reason at the time to believe that the warrant was proper?
Good Faith Exception
What is said plan for the northwest territory forming new states it's plan?
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787