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

Terms set by the national government that states must meet whether or not they accept federal grants.

What is a mandate?

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

A belief that you play a role in politics and the government is responsive to the participants.

What is political efficacy?

100

An outdated party organization that recruits members by dispensing patronage.

What is a political machine?

200
This uprising of Revolutionary War veterans brought attention to several weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
200
Type of federal grant for a specific purpose.
What is a categorical grant?
200

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?

200
The process by which a person forms his or her political views.
What is political socialization?
200

A period when a significant shift occurs in the coalitions of national political parties.

What is a realignment (or critical period)?

300

The article that lays out the several means for formally amending the U.S. Constitution

What is Article 5?

300
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)?
300

This landmark SCOTUS case that first applied First Amendment to the states, thereby beginning the process of selective incorporation.

What is Gitlow v. New York (1925)?

300

A type of election where the electorate help choose nominees for a party.

What is a primary election?

300
Which of the 2 major parties started out as a third party?

What is the Republican party?

400
This large-state contribution to the Constitutional Convention called for a strong national government.
What is the Virginia Plan?
400

This style of federalism is when the national and state governments as collaborating to solve common problems.

What is cooperative federalism?

400

This rule says that illegally gathered evidence may not be introduced in a criminal trial.

What is the exclusionary rule?

400

A calculation of how closely the results reflect the attitudes or characteristics of the full population that's been sampled.

What is a sampling error or M.O.E. (Margin of Error)?

400

The political party who holds the minority seats in both chambers of Congress.

What is the Democratic Party?

500

The clause of the U.S. Constitution that was used to create the strict scrutiny standard.

What is the equal protection clause (of the 14th Amendment)?

500

Landmark case that created a broad definition of the commerce.

What is Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)?

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?