American Democracy
Term used to describe powers shared by the national and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
What branch of government was viewed by the framers of the Constitution as the center of policy making in the United States?
What is the Legislative Branch (Congress)?
This U.S. Constitutional Amendment outlawed slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
The process by which a person forms his or her political views.
What is political socialization?
A belief you play a role in politics and the government is responsive to the participants.
What is political efficacy?
Terms set by the federal government that states must meet whether or not they accept federal grants.
These two terms describe the role of Supreme Court justices in relation to policymaking.
What are judicial activism and judicial restraint?
This rule says that illegally gathered evidence may not be introduced in a criminal trial.
What is the exclusionary rule?
Type of survey given to voters as they leave their voting location.
What is an exit poll?
A person seeking re-election.
What is an incumbent?
This uprising of Revolutionary War veterans brought attention to several weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This check and balance occurs when a president does not sign or veto a bill 10 days after it passes through Congress.
What is a pocket veto?
These two clauses in the First Amendment make up what is generally understood as Americans' "freedom of religion".
What are free exercise and establishment clauses?
This core value is a belief that government is based on laws that apply equally to everyone and prevents tyranny.
What is rule of law?
A period when a significant shift occurs in the coalitions of national political parties.
What is party realignment?
Type of federal grant used for a specific purpose.
What is a categorical grant?
A Senate procedure where a two-third supermajority vote is needed to stop a debate on a bill.
What is cloture?
This important piece of 1960s legislation created equal employment opportunities and equal access to public accommodations regardless of race, religion, or national origin as well as the withholding of federal grants-in-aid from state programs that discriminated on the basis of race.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Government decisions that aim to address inflation through managing interest rates and money supply.
What is monetary policy?
Worried that states would not be able to select competent choices to serve as the chief executive in this process electors were selected by the states and "directed" by the popular vote to select a president.
What is the electoral college?
Landmark case that held a national ban on guns in a school zone had violated the commerce clause.
What is United States v. Lopez (1995)?
Landmark case that held race cannot be the predominant factor in creating districts.
What is Shaw v. Reno (1993)?
This landmark case's majority opinion created the "clear and present danger test" to analyze future free speech cases.
What is Schenck v. United States (1919)?
An economic theory that argues that governments should manage demand in order to support a healthy economy through increased government spending to create jobs and invest in social programs.
What is Keynesian Economics?
This landmark case established that corporate funding of independent political ads in candidate elections cannot be limited under the First Amendment.
What is Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)?