Interactions Among Govt.
The system that allows for government branches to regulate each other.
What is Checks and Balances?
These are organized groups that seek to influence public policy.
What are interest groups?
This document declared the colonies’ independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This Amendment disallowed the government from obscuring freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
The legistive branch is a ___ system.
What is Bicameral?
This political ideology generally favors limited government and lower taxes.
What is conservatism?
The first constitution of the United States, later replaced by the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This case declared school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This Article established the Legislative system.
What is Article I?
Name a clause used by the government.
Necessary and Proper / Elastic Clause, Commerce Clause, Supremacy Clause
This type of primary allows only registered party members to vote.
What is a closed primary?
This series of essays supported the ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This case ruled that students do not lose their free speech rights at school.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This Amendment stated that there are more rights then listed.
What is the 9th Amendment
Commonly referred to as 'the fourth branch of government.'
What is the Bureaucracy?
This theory suggests that political power is distributed among many competing interest groups, so much so that nothing is able to get done.
What is hyper-pluralism?
This document added to the Constitution protects individual liberties.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This case ruled that political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment.
What is Citizens United v. FEC?
This Article outlined the amendment process for the constitution.
What is Article V (5)
This process allows Congress to check the President by charging and potentially removing them from office.
What is impeachment?
The most common form of political participation in the U.S.
What is voting in elections?
This federalist paper focuses on the judiciary.
What is Federalist No. 78?
The clause that states that the courts should follow previous decisions.
What is stare decisis?
The 15th, 19th, and 26th Amendment all deal with this topic.
What is suffrage?