Consitution
Term used to describe powers shared by the national and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
Terms set by the national government that states must meet whether or not they accept federal grants.
What is a mandate?
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?
A belief that you play a role in politics and the government is responsive to the participants.
What is political efficacy?
An outdated party organization that recruits members by dispensing patronage.
What is a political machine?
This large-state contribution to the Constitutional Convention called for a strong national government.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This concept of federalism views the national and state governments as collaborating to solve common problems.
What is cooperative federalism?
This rule says that illegally gathered evidence may not be introduced in a criminal trial.
What is the exclusionary rule?
The difference between the results of random poll samples at the same time.
What is a sampling error?
Which current political party is the largest? (according to individual responses)
What is the Democratic Party?
This uprising of Revolutionary War veterans brought attention to several weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
Type of federal grant for a specific purpose.
What is a categorical grant?
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?
The process by which a person forms his or her political views.
What is political socialization?
A period when a significant shift occurs in the coalitions of national political parties.
What is a realignment (or critical period)?
According to C Wright Mills, this group - along with powerful elected officials and corporate leaders - forms the "power elite."
What is the military?
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)?
This landmark SCOTUS case said the First Amendment applies to the states, thereby beginning the process of selective incorporation.
What is Gitlow v. New York (1925)?
A government-printed, uniform, secret ballot adopted in the U.S. around 1890.
What is the Australian ballot?
This political party challenged the Jacksonian Democrats, but the Democrats typically dominated politically throughout this party era.
What was the Whig party?
This political philosopher was most known among the Founding Fathers for promoting the separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
Landmark case that held all interstate commerce will be regulated by the national government.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
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)?
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)
Party leaders and elected officials who automatically become delegates to the national convention.
What are superdelegates?