Dr. Barwick
America's first constitution
Articles of Confederation
The US led alliance NATO stands for:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The “Social Contract” theorist most philosophically associated with the founding documents of the United States was?
John Locke
Which branches of government, in order, are the subjects of the first three articles of the Constitution?
legislative, executive, judicial
This social identity is also the number one predictor of vote choice in the United States.
Party Identification/Partisanship
The Supreme Court held in this case that Congress exceeded its enumerated powers under the commerce clause when it passed the Gun Free School Zones Act.
United States v. Lopez
He was the first president to commit US forces overseas when he sent the navy and marines to fight the Barbary pirates in North Africa.
Thomas Jefferson
The most populous country in Africa, and the 6th most populous country in the world, that—like the United States and Mexico—has a federal system of government is?
Nigeria
Which clause of the Constitution did the Supreme Court rely on in McCulloch v. Maryland to justify Congress’s broad authority?
Necessary and Proper Clause
This type of variable is the outcome a researcher is interested in studying.
Dependent Variable
These are the intermediate appellate courts in the federal court system.
United States Courts of Appeals/Circuit Courts
The international organization that loans money to developing countries to stabilize their currencies is the:
International Monetary Fund/IMF
The Italian philosopher, historian, and political consultant who had a front seat to the real time and place of the setting of ‘Romeo & Juliet’, and who is considered the ‘father of modern political theory’ was…
Machiavelli
The Bill of Rights, as originally approved and interpreted, protected individual liberties from violation by who or what?
This rhetorical tactic in political messaging is used to shape how a person thinks about a news story or event.
Framing
In a contract, there needs to be an offer, acceptance, and what? (Something of value exchanged)
Consideration
This Middle Eastern country’s parliament is named the Majlis?
Iran
The multilateral agreement amongst European states in 1648 that ended the ‘Thirty-Years’ War’ and established the concept of sovereignty and the modern international system was
The Peace of Westphalia (Accept: Treaty of Westphalia)
The only way to end a ___________ is through a vote of _______________, which requires 60 votes.
filibuster; cloture
This type of research design has researchers randomly assigning participants to a control and treatment group, to see how they respond to the treatment.
Experiment
There are two types of restrictions on core political speech in traditional public forum, only one of which is generally valid. What are the two types of restrictions?
Content-based and content-neutral (accept: time, place, and manner)
What country is the most dominant economy in the European Union?
Germany
The Bretton Woods Institutions established at the end of World War II included the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the General Agreement on Trades & Tariffs (GATT)...the last of which was retitled in the 1990s as?
The World Trade Organization/WTO
Which Supreme Court case held that challenges to legislative apportionment are justiciable and helped establish the principle of “one person, one vote”?
Baker v. Carr
These three conditions must be met to establish causality and before a researcher can make a confident causal statement.
Correlation, temporal order, no confounds