Required Court Cases
Court Case in which symbolic speech was deemed to be protected under the 1st Amendment.
What is Tinker vs. Des Moines School District
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What is The Census?
What you call a group of people with shared interest who use different strategies to get policy/regulations passed that benefit their members.
What is an Interest Group?
A type of election in which only members of a certain political party can vote in.
What is a closed primary?
Stated that "Separate But Equal" is not constitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education
Advocated the need for Civil Disobedience and Protest
What is MLK's Letter From A Birmingham Jail?
The idea that individuals feel politically motivated and that their vote/actions can have an impact on politics.
What is Political Efficacy?
What Interest Groups can create to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money for during elections.
What are Political Action Committees (PAC's)?
Way in which 48/50 states allocate their Electoral College Votes
What is the Winner Take All System?
Increased Access to own weapons in the home.
What is McDonald vs. Chicago?
Checks and Balances
What is Federalist 51
The process of how an individual comes to develop a political ideology
What is Political Socialization?
When a person benefits from the work of an interest group without being an active member of the interest group.
What is the "Free Rider Problem"?
Process of more and more states moving up their primary/caucus election to early months in the calendar.
What is frontloading?
Established the Supremacy Clause.
What is McCulloch vs. Maryland?
This Document feared the Federal Government would be unable to address the individual needs of states.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Type of Poll Used to determine who is winning an election the day of the election.
Criticism of several Media Companies who only discuss political polls instead of discussing policy ideas.
What is Horse Race Journalism?
What we call the small number of states in America that are actually competitive between for both Republicans and Democrats in a Presidential Election Year.
What are "Battleground States or Swing States"
What is U.S vs. Lopez?
System/Government in which there was a Unicameral Legislature
What are The Articles of Confederation?
Statistical Method that displays how reliable/accurate any given poll is.
What is the Margin of Error?
What is Setting The Agenda?
Technique used by political parties to increase their election success in House of Representative Elections.
What is "Gerrymandering"?