Parties
Who is the Father of Macroeconomics
Keynes
What is Cloture
A vote to stop the filibuster
WHich of the Federalist papers focuses on Checks and Balances
Presidential age requirement
35 Years Old
What's a Direct Democracy
When people vote on laws directly
Silent Generation's opinion on foreign policy?
they are more forgiving of the government in the aftermath of conflict
How many members in the house of representitves
435 Members
how is a veto overridden
by 2/3 vote of both houses of Congress
What is the Revolving Door
Process by which a Congressman leaves office and then works for interest groups to help implement favorable policy and later go to work for the bureaucracy to implement that policy.
What is a Pluralist form of democracy
Answers Vary:
Interest Group Action (IE – NRA, Labor Unions, NOW, etc.)
Impact on Elections
Government Watchdogs
Influence Public Opinion
Liberal ideologies
idea that personal privacy—areas of behavior where government should not intrude—extends further than conservative ideologies do
Whats an enumerated power
an expressed power that is written in the Constitution
Who can Can impeach and remove federal judges, create new lower courts
The Legislative Branch
what are signing statments
Documents informing Congress and the public of the president’s interpretation of laws passed by Congress and signed by the president.
John Locke created what ideology
natural law: foundation of popular sovereignty
What is an Opinion poll
a method used to gather people's views or preferences on a specific topic by asking questions to a sample of individuals from a larger population.
Who is the highest ranking member in majority party of the house
Speaker of the House
Who can Nominates all federal judges (including Supreme Court Justices) and can grant pardons and reprieves (to judiciary)
The executive branch
What does the National Security Council do
Advises President on foreign policy and military matters
Article six of the Constitution focuses on what?
Supremacy
What are the 5 political core values
Individualism, Equal Opportunity, Free Enterprise, Rule of Law, Limited Government
What is Partisan Voting
When members of Congress vote based on their political party affiliation
What is Judicial Review
the ability to declare laws passed by Congress and executive actions/orders "unconstitutional"
Longest amount of time a president can serve
10 years
(if he completed another president’s term for less than 2 years, he may serve 2 more full terms)
Who created the Social Contract Ideology
Jean-Jacques Rousseau