Unit 1
This founding idea says government gets its power from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
This power allows the Senate to block presidential Supreme Court appointments.
What is confirmation?
This clause in the First Amendment prevents the government from creating an official religion.
What is the establishment clause?
This term describes a person’s consistent pattern of political beliefs and values.
What is political ideology?
This group is most likely to vote: older voters, younger voters, or new voters?
Who are older voters?
This failed early system left Congress too weak to raise revenue or enforce laws.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This tactic in the Senate allows unlimited debate unless 60 members vote to end it.
What is the filibuster?
This 1969 case protected symbolic speech when students wore armbands to protest the Vietnam War.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
These scientific tools measure public opinion using random sampling.
What are opinion polls?
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This compromise settled the debate over representation between large and small states by creating a bicameral legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
This 1803 case established the power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Because of this clause in the 14th Amendment, states cannot deny equal treatment under the law.
What is the equal protection clause?
People who favor limited government, lower taxes, and more free-market policies typically identify with this ideology.
What is conservatism?
In U.S. presidential elections, this system can allow a candidate to win the presidency without winning the popular vote.
What is the Electoral College?
In Federalist No. 10, he warned that factions are inevitable but can be controlled in a large republic.
Who is James Madison?
These committees in Congress conduct oversight to ensure agencies follow the law as intended.
What are congressional committees?
This process uses the 14th Amendment’s due process clause to apply most of the Bill of Rights to the states.
What is selective incorporation?
Factors such as family, religion, school, peers, and media make up this process of shaping political beliefs.
What is political socialization?
Political parties, interest groups, and social movements are all examples of these political linkage structures.
What are linkage institutions?
Anti-Federalist fears of lost liberty led to the promise of adding these first ten amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This foundational document argued for a strong, energetic single executive.
What is Federalist No. 70?
This 1971 case ruled that prior restraint on the press is almost always unconstitutional, even in national security cases.
What is New York Times Co. v. United States?
This term describes the confidence a person has in their ability to understand and influence politics.
What is political efficacy?
This type of primary election allows only registered party members to vote for their party’s nominee.
What is a closed primary?