Unit 1
A state oversteps its power by interfering with international trade.
What is placing a tax on furniture made overseas?
This action rewards political supporters with government jobs.
What is nominating a high-level campaign fund-raiser to serve as an ambassador to another nation?
This scenario violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause.
What is a public school system using race-based segregation?
Different poll results can occur because of how questions are phrased.
What is a difference in wording in the questions?
In this scenario, the public benefits from a group’s efforts without contributing.
What is the free-rider problem?
A constitutional feature limits what the national government can do.
What are the enumerated powers in Article I?
This move forces a vote when a bill is stuck in committee.
What is filing for a discharge petition?
This constitutional principle inspired themes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”
What is the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
The credibility of a poll is improved when it reports this statistical measure.
What is the sampling error?
This important democratic function becomes harder without political parties.
What is educating the public about upcoming elections?
The framers designed Congress to pass laws slowly.
What is “slow and deliberate in the law-making process”?
A committee responds to problems by requiring officials to testify.
What is holding a hearing and subpoenaing high-level officials in the Department of Veterans Affairs to testify?
This type of case is most likely treated as involving a right to privacy.
What is a woman who is prevented from an abortion?
This policy can create tension between individualism and equality of opportunity.
What is implementing an affirmative action program?
This consequence of modern campaigns gives candidates an edge based on personal appeal.
What is candidates’ ability to appeal to voters outweighing experience and policy?
A federal power allowed Congress to regulate employer health-insurance options.
What is the power to regulate commerce among the states?
Presidents struggle to control policy because bureaucrats can’t be easily removed.
What is the challenge posed by civil service laws that protect professional bureaucrats?
This action by students would be protected as symbolic speech under the Tinker precedent.
What is wearing T-shirts objecting to a school board decision?
A president using Keynesian principles would respond to a recession with this approach.
What is increasing spending on unemployment benefits and public works projects?
This concept describes long-term cooperation among agencies, committees, and interest groups.
What are iron triangles?
Two agencies differ because one handles state issues and one handles national issues.
What is the distinction between the Department of Education and the Department of Homeland Security?
A president can limit the Court’s power by refusing to carry out its ruling.
What is refusing to enforce a ruling by the Court?
Supporters of Hamilton’s warning that a bill of rights could threaten liberty might reference this Supreme Court case.
What is Schenck v. United States (1919)?
This power allows Congress to influence the president’s agenda by controlling money and funding.
What is the power of the purse?
This factor explains higher voter turnout in presidential vs. midterm elections.
What is increased media coverage for presidential elections?