Passed in 1951, the amendment that limits presidents to two terms of office.
What is the Twenty-second Amendment?
100
a prolonged speech or series of speeches made to delay action in a legislative assembly; can be cut off by a 60-senator vote
What is a filibuster?
100
The power vested in an appellate court to review and/or revise the decision of a lower court.
What is Appellate Jurisdiction?
100
The idea that government derives its authority by sanction of the people.
What is consent of the governed?
100
Social institutions, including families and schools, that help to shape individuals' basic political beliefs and values
What are agencies of socialization?
200
An agency in the Executive Office of the President that advises the president on national security.
What is the National Security Council (NSC)?
200
Districts in which incumbents win by margins of 55 percent or more
What are safe districts?
200
Court that generally reviews only findings of law made by lower courts.
What is Appellate Court?
200
The idea that certain restrictions should be placed on government to protect the natural rights of citizens.
What is Limited Government?
200
The public forum in which beliefs and ideas are exchanged and compete
What is the marketplace of ideas?
300
Agency that administers civil service laws, rules, and regulations.
What is Office of Personnel Management (OPM)?
300
Congressional district designed to make it easier for minority citizens to elect minority represeentatives
What are majority-minority districts?
300
A philosophy of judicial decision making that argues judges should use their power broadly to further justice, especially in the area of equality and personal liberty. It is the courts' appropriate role to correct injustices committed by the other branches of government.
What is Judicial Activism?
300
Interest groups arising from the unequal distribution of property or wealth that James Madison attacked in Federalist Paper No. 10.
What are factions?
300
A relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole.
What is a sample?
400
A schedule for federal employees, ranging from GS 1 to GS 18, by which salaries can be keyed to rating and experience.
What is GS (General Schedule) Rating?
400
the presiding officer of the House in the Vice President's absence; largely an honorific position, selected by the majority party
Who is the president pro tempore?
400
Created the Federal Judicial System. Three-tiered structure. (look at diagram at bottom). Original courts, appellate courts, Supreme Court. Part of it was struck down in Marbury v. Madison.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
400
The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for representation of each state in Congress in proportion to that state's share of the U.S. population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
400
Polling error that arises when the sample is not representative of the population being studied, which creates errors in over representing or under representing some opinions.
What is selection bias?
500
The lifting of restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities for which government rules had been established and that bureaucracies had been created to administer.
What is Deregulation?
500
legislative leader elected by party members holding a minority of the seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate
Who is the minority leader?
500
An unsuccessful attempt to challenge Pennsylvania's restrictive abortion regulations. (used the precedent of Roe v. Wade)
What is Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)?
500
Opponents of the American Constitution at the time when the states were contemplating its adoption.
What are Anti-Federalists?
500
Short snippets of information aimed at dramatizing a story rather than explaining its substantive meaning