He said that self-preservation leads people to form a social contract.
Who is John Locke?
100
This clause in the Constitution ensures that federal law controls in the event of a conflict with state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
100
This is the #1 influence on our political views.
What is the family?
100
This law was intended to expand voter registration by allowing people to register when they get a driver's license.
What is the Motor Voter Law?
100
This term refers to a significant shift of voters from one party to another
What is a realignment?
200
This document was an early attempt at organizing a government but failed because the government didn't have sufficient powers.
What is (are) the Articles of Confederation?
200
This amendment reserves power to the states that is not given to the federal government or denied to the states.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
200
These are the three things needed for a reliable poll.
What are a large sample size, a random sample, and clear & unbiased questions?
200
This case prohibited all-white primaries.
What is Smith v. Allwright?
200
This is a meeting or gathering of members of a political party where members deliberate and choose from the list of those seeking the presidential nomination.
What is a caucus?
300
This person led an insurrection that caused creditors and other property owners to realize that the country needed a stronger central government.
Who is Daniel Shays?
300
This clause has been used by the federal government to expand its powers beyond those expressly stated in the Constitution.
What is the Necessary & Proper Clause?
300
This is someone who believes that rules are to be evaluated based on personal circumstances.
Who is a Progressive?
300
These are 4 ways in which some states circumvented the 15th Amendment.
What are violence, the poll tax, literacy tests, and all-white primaries?
300
This feature of how we elect presidents in the general election has contributed to the strengthening of the two-party system.
What is the winner-take-all system of awarding electoral votes (at least in 48 of the 50 states)?
400
This was the solution to the dilemma of how to appease the large states and the small states when creating a Congress.
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
400
This type of federalism refers to sharing of costs and administration, subject to federal guidelines.
What is cooperative federalism?
400
This is the metaphor used by Robert Putnam to describe the loss of social capital.
What is "bowling alone"?
400
In 1842 Congress passed a law requiring that all members of the House of Representatives be elected in these.
What are single-member districts?
400
This law prohibits the federal government from hiring or firing someone for political reasons.
What is the Pendleton Act?
500
These are 3 of the 4 linkage institutions.
What are parties, elections, media, and interest groups?
500
This is a grant of money by the federal gov't to the state gov'ts to be used for a general purpose, with the states retaining significant discretion in how to spend the money.
What is a block grant?
500
This is term used to describe a coherent set of beliefs about politics and public policy.
What is "political ideology"?
500
These 5 Constitutional amendments expanded suffrage.
What are the 15th (slaves), 19th (women), 23rd (DC), 24th (poll taxes), and 26th (18-year-olds) amendments?
500
This refers either to (a) voting for the Presidential candidate of one party and congressional candidates of another or (b) voting for Representatives of one party and Senators of another.