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Term used to describe powers shared by the national and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
100

The 10th Amendment establish these types of powers. It states that all powers not granted to the federal government are therefore powers of the states. 

What are Reserved Powers?

100
Regents of the U. of California v. Bakke (1978), Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Gratz v. Bollinger (2003) all dealt with this issue.
What is affirmative action?
100

This technique that a public opinion poll is as accurate as possible. It requires that every person in the sampling population has an equal chance to be asked the poll question. 

What is random sampling?

100

Parties hold primaries to choose these people that officially cast votes to choose the presidential party nominee to run in the general election.

What are delegates?

200
This large-state contribution to the Constitutional Convention called for a strong national government.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200

This concept of federalism views the national and state governments as collaborating to solve common problems.

What is cooperative federalism?

200
This rule says that illegally gathered evidence may not be introduced in a criminal trial.
What is the exclusionary rule?
200
The difference between the results of random poll samples at the same time.
What is a sampling error?
200

Which current political party's platform is pro-choice, favors raising taxes on the wealthy, and advocates for stricter gun control laws. 

What is the Democratic Party?

300

This uprising of Revolutionary War veterans brought attention to several weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.

What is Shays's Rebellion?

300

Type of federal grant for a specific purpose.

What is a categorical grant?

300

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?

300

The process by which a person forms his or her political views.

What is political socialization?

300
A period when a significant shift occurs in the coalitions of national political parties.
What is a realignment (or critical period)?
400

This document advocated against the ratification of the Constitution. It argues liberty is best preserved in the smaller state republics.

What is the Brutus 1?

400

Landmark case that held a national ban on guns in a school zone had violated the commerce clause.

What is U.S. v. Lopez (1995)?

400

This landmark SCOTUS established the Clear and Present Danger test which asserts that speech that poses a dangerous and real threat to the public is not protected

What is Schenck v U.S.?

400

This tells you the accuracy of a public opinion poll. A good one falls between 3& and 5%

What is the sampling error?

400

The people are the ones that actually choose the President at a designated date roughly a month after the general election

What are electors?

500
This political philosopher was most known among the Founding Fathers for promoting the separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
500

This landmark case McCulloch v MD used this specific clause to assert  that when federal and state law conflict the federal law will be favored

What is the Supremacy Clause?

500

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)?

500

This law - requiring states to allow citizens to register to vote at the DMV - increased voter registration dramatically.

What is the motor-voter law? (National Voter Registration Act of 1993)

500

Party leaders and elected officials who automatically become delegates to the national convention.

What are superdelegates?