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Civil Liberties
Interest Groups
By The Numbers
The Constitution
Odds and Ends
100
Spoken word only.
What is pure speech?
100
Theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government is weakened.
What is hyperpluralism?
100
Numer of electoral votes needed to win.
What is 270?
100
November 1786 revolt by farmers in Massachusetts over bank foreclosures, it lead to a call for a new government.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
100
A party's official endorsement of a candidate for office.
What is a nomination?
200
Prohibits the government from including illegally obtained evidence in a trial.
What is the exclusionary rule?
200
!DAILY DOUBLE! Process interest group representatives use to influence a politican's decision.
What is lobbying?
200
The first and last Cabinet departments created.
What are State and Homeland Security?
200
Plan by some delegates to the Constitutional Convention to provide each state with congressional representation based on state population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
A court is said to have this if it heard a case first.
What is original jurisdiction?
300
Government action used to prevent material from being published; it is unconstitutional in the United States.
What is prior restraint?
300
The National Rifle Association is an example of this type of interest group.
What is a single issue interest group?
300
This "rule" says the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case.
What is the Rule of Four?
300
They feared the new Constitution would erode fundamental liberties.
Who were the Anti-federalists?
300
The best predictor of this year's budget is last year's budget plus a little more.
What is incrementalism?
400
This part of the 1st Amendment prohibits the government from interferring with religious practices.
What is the free exercise clause?
400
Organizations that seek a collective goal which does not only benefit their membership but society as a whole.
What are public interest lobbies?
400
!DAILY DOUBLE! 435.
What is the number of representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives?
400
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3.
What is the commerce clause?
400
!DAILY DOUBLE! Where each interest uses its influence to thwart policies it opposes so that no coalition forms a majority to establish policy.
What is gridlock?
500
!DAILY DOUBLE! In Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963, the Surpeme Court guaranteed this amendment's right to counsel for the accused.
What is the 6th Amendment?
500
An interest group, a government agency, and a congressional committee is referred to as an iron triangle, an issue network, or this as well.
What is a sub-government?
500
The number of federal appeal courts.
What is 12?
500
!DAILY DOUBLE! Madison attributed their existence to the unequal distribution of wealth in society.
What are factions?
500
Type of federalism where states and the national government each remain supreme within their own spheres of power.
What is dual federalism?