Foundations of Gov.
Key issues for Founding Fathers at Constitutional Convention. 100 pts each.
Power of Central Gov.
Uni or Bicameral Congress
Bill of Rights?
State v. Federal power
Established separate, but equal doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Fergusson?
Define the types of primaries (100 points each).
Open, closed, or caucuses.
Power of Supreme Court to overturn executive orders, legislation, and lower-court decisions.
What is judicial review?
Term which defines relationship between state and national government in America.
What is federalism?
Author of the Virginia Plan.
Who is James Madison?
Projects your right to pray, set up a shire in your backyard, or sacrifice an animal.
What is the free-exercise clause?
Power of one party to control a state through favorable drawing of Congressional districts.
Legislation that adds funding for local projects that are indented to benefit district.
What is pork barrel legislation?
Differences between the house and senate. 200 points each.
Terms
Requirements
House Rules committee
Size
Special powers
How the president is selected when there is no winner in the electoral college.
When does the House of Representatives choose the president?
First Amendment case which established the doctrine of Incorporation.
What is Gitlow v. New York?
Rules placed on political parties by the Constitution.
Term which sets judicial standard of following precedent.
What is stare decisis?
Leader of the Department of Justice.
Who is the attorney general?
The federal government allows states to make specific decisions on issues that had formally been controlled by the Federal government.
What is devolution?
Conflict around the 8th Amendment.
What does no cruel and unusual punishment mean and does it apply to the death penalty?
Law which increased voter registration. (not an amendment)
What is the Motor Voter law?
Power of Congress to hold hearings about the performance of an executive agency.
What is congressional oversight?
Government makes a law which requires states/people to comply without funding (Americans with Disabilities Act or No Child Left Behind).
What is a federal mandate?
What newspaper originally published the Constitution?
What is the Pennsylvania Packet?
The power of government to ban fighting words was upheld in this case.
What is Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire?
What is the network between Congress, interest groups, and bureaucracies?
A motion to end a filibuster.
What is a cloture motion?
The belief that the average citizen can make a difference in politics.
What is political efficacy?