Week 1, 2 & 3
Benefiting from a public good while avoiding the costs of contributing to it.
Free riding
A rule that limits the debate on a bill to a specific number of hours.
Cloture
Loyalty to a political party
Party Identification
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
The view that Congressional chambers are designed to help Congress make more informed decisions.
Informational model
An interaction between two strategic actors in which neither actor has an incentive to cooperate.
Prisoner's dilemma
Granting Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign Nations in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.
Commerce Clause
A person who works directly for the party through multiple election cycles.
Party Professional
Laws passed after the Civil War to establish a system of segregation.
Jim Crow Laws.
This era accepted the idea that the national government had legitimate authority to regulate certain areas of commerce
Progressive Era
An authoritarian political system in which sovereign power is vested in one individual.
Dictatorship
A political system that includes multiple levels of government.
Federalism
In 1984 and 1988, which civil rights leader ran for the Democratic nomination
Jesse Jackson
Allowing states to serve as "laboratories" for public policy innovation is an advantage or disadvantage of federalism.
Advantage
Famous for promoting specific philosophies of government all over the world.
Declaration of Independence
Two or more legislators agreeing to vote in favor of one another's proposed bills
Logrolling
Which parties represented the Second Party System: 1830 - 1860
Whigs and Democrats
Government suppressing the critical speech of an unpopular minority is an example of what?
Alien and Sedition Act
A series of articles in New York newspapers detailing the virtues of the constitution.
Federalist Papers
The extent to which laws passed reflect the preferences of a group of individuals.
Substantive Representation
A vote held in a parliamentary that brings on an election and possibly new party leaders if failed.
Confidence vote
This case limited the laws that the Government could pass restricting gun ownership
District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)