Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
Contains the right to bear arms
What is the 2nd Amendment?
The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
What is election day?
T/F Social policies are controversial because they require government to balance the rights and liberties of different groups
What is True?
T/F The right to free speech and press under the first amendment is unlimited.
What is false? (See e.g., libel, slander, fighting words, obscenity, etc.)
The two main political parties in the United States today.
What are the Democrats and the Republicans?
Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures
What is the 4th Amendment?
Gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Agent of socialization that is most prominent during adolescence.
What is peers?
Role media is playing when it lays out for us the issues we ought to be considering.
What is agenda setting?
Who was George Washington?
Contains the equal protection clause
What is the 14th Amendment?
Type of election where citizens can propose laws.
What are initiatives?
An informal, unscientific survey.
What is a straw poll?
Type of journalism that emerged at the turn of the 20th Century in which stories were embellished and sensationalized to sell more copies.
What is yellow journalism?
Most common activity engaged in by interest groups where they attempt persuade lawmakers to support their policy preferences.
What is lobbying?
Contains the right to peacefully assemble and petition the government
What is the 1st Amendment?
Demographic characteristics (Gender, age and socio-economic status) of a citizen most likely to run for office.
What is male, over 40, upper-middle/upper?
Questions designed to influence/shape public opinion rather than objectively measure it.
What is push polling?
Written falsehoods intended to injure another's reputation.
What is libel?
An organization established to raise money to contribute directly to a candidate
What is a political action committee (PAC)
Type of speech given the same protection as written and spoken communications. (Hint: Flag burning or wearing a black arm band)
What is symbolic speech?
Also known as the Motor voter law, this act makes it easer for citizens to register to vote.
What is the National Voter Registration Act?
A set of beliefs or worldview about the role government should play in our lives.
What is a political ideology?
Helps citizens and journalists exercise oversight over the bureaucracy by permitting them to request public records.
What is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)?
Organizations that grew dramatically after Citizens United that currently cannot contribute directly to a candidate but can spend an unlimited amount of money trying to promote or elect a candidate.
What are Super PACs?