American Values
The belief that the power and legitimacy of a government should derive from the consent of the people
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Government policies dealing with the supply of money and level of interest rates
What is Monetary Policy?
Political poll taken after casting your vote on election day
What is an Exit Poll?
Policy-making relationships between special interest groups, bureaucrats, and congressional committees
What are Iron Triangles?
Contains the "Equal Protection" and "Due Process" Clauses
What is the 14th Amendment?
The "core American value" that means everyone is held to the same legal standards
What is Rule of Law?
Government policies concerning Congressional spending and taxation
What is Fiscal Policy?
The sum of individual attitudes about government, policies, and issues
What is Public Opinion?
Federalist paper that argues for three co-equal branches of government with checks and balances.
What is Federalist 51?
Prohibits cruel and unusual punishments
What is the 8th Amendment?
The "core American value" that everyone is given the same chance to compete
What is "Equality of Opportunity"?
The style of economics which promotes increasing demand by providing unemployment services
What is Keyensian Economics?
A small group of individuals assembled for a conversation about specific issues
What is a Focus Group?
The official list of a political party's opinions on all of the major issues
What is a Party Platform?
The two religious clauses in the 1st Amendment
What are the Free Excerices and Establishment Clauses?
The "core American value" that the free market will determine prices for products and services
What is Free Enterprise?
The style of economics that supports decreasing corporate taxes and regulations on business
What is Supply-Side Economics?
The difference between how men and women vote
What is the gender gap?
This foundational document was written by Martin Luther King Junior and argues that the best way to change society is through peaceful protest of unjust laws.
What is Letter from a Birmingham Jail?
Established a national voting age at 18-years-old
What is the 26th Amendment?
The "core American value" that each person has the ability to shape their life and destiny through the choices they make
What is Individualism?
The independent government agency that seeks to achieve maximum employment and price stability through its oversight of banks
What is the Federal Reserve?
Uses telephone numbers randomly generated by computer to select respondents
What is Random Digit Dialing?
Federalist Paper that argues the best way to control the excess of factions is a large republic
What is Federalist 10?
Allows voters to select their Senators directly instead of having state legislatures choose
What is the 17th Amendment?