Unit 1
This system of government has power divided between multiple levels of government, a central government with regional governments underneath it.
What is federalism?
This is the process by which people form their beliefs about politics.
What is political socialization?
These groups aim to influence policy-making and makeup 1/3 of an Iron Triangle.
What are interest groups?
This legislative house has proportional representation and has to follow a stricter set of rules, procedures, and committee assignments because of its large size.
What is the House of Representatives?
This founding document argued that a large central government threatened individual liberties.
What is Brutus no. 1?
These are the types of powers that both state and federal governments have, like the power to tax.
What are concurrent powers?
What is the Democratic Party?
These are institutions that allow citizens to participate in government and communicate preferences to policymakers.
What are linkage institutions?
This is a tool senators can use to prevent voting on a bill by talking or debating for long periods of time.
What is a filibuster?
This founding document argued that the best way to control factions was through a federal republic where power would be divided between different levels of government.
What is Federalist no. 10?
This compromise led to a bicameral legislature where one house would be equal representation and the other would be proportional.
What is the Connecticut (Great) Compromise?
This type of political ideology favors less federal government involvement in social and economic issues, with more power to the states.
What is conservative ideology?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This area of the federal spending budget is the portion that Congress can decide what to do with it.
What is discretionary spending?
This founding document argued that a unitary executive was important because it would make it easy to hold one person accountable rather than many and that it would lead to less indecisiveness.
What is Federalist no. 70?
What is popular sovereignty?
These types of polls follow how views of a candidate change over the course of a campaign.
What are tracking polls?
This type of voting ideology is when people vote based on how a candidate performed in the past?
What is retrospective voting?
Bills can be introduced in either house of Congress except for bills dealing with this.
What are bills of revenue?
This founding document argued for checks and balances in our government and a separation of powers.
What is Federalist No. 51?
This rebellion showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
Congress is responsible for this type of economic policy.
What is fiscal policy?
This voting system is the reason why we have a two party system in the USA.
What is a winner-take-all voting system? (aka First Past the Post)
This type of legislation is used in negotiation to get votes and support from specific groups of people, and is used to fund local projects.
What is pork-barrel legislation?
This court case dealt with the Commerce Clause of the Constitution when the Supreme Court stated that Congress overstepped its authority by trying to regulate guns around schools under the Commerce Clause.
What is US v. Lopez (1995)?