Unit 1
This required document warns about the dangers of inevitable factions.
What is Federalist #10?
A veto taking place when Congress adjourns within 10 days of submitting a bill to the president, who simply lets it die by neither signing nor vetoing it.
What is a pocket veto?
The amendment that prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment".
What is the 8th Amendment?
The term used to refer to the process by which one develops political beliefs.
What is political socialization?
The McCain-Feingold Act attempted to place limits on the spending of this type of money.
What is soft money?
The clause that was used to argue whether or not a state could tax a national bank in McCulloch v Maryland.
What is the supremacy clause?
This required document argues that an "energetic executive" is an essential part of a well-functioning government.
What is Federalist #70?
The test created by SCOTUS to assess under what conditions public authorities could limit free speech.
What is the "clear and present danger test"?
A federal program that provides health insurance to certain low income pregnant woman, children, and the aged, blind, and disabled.
What is medicaid?
These are the three key players involved in an iron triangle.
Who are Congress(ional committees), Interest Groups, and the Bureaucracy (Agencies)?
This compromise led to the creation of a bicameral legislature - one chamber based on population and one based on equal representation.
What is the Connecticut Comprise or Great Compromise?
A judicial philosophy in which judges play minimal policymaking roles, leaving that duty strictly to the legislatures.
What is judicial restraint?
The case that established that students' rights do not end at the school house gates in regards to freedom of speech and non-disruptive protesting.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This type of tax is graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
What is a progressive tax?
It is this type of voting if a person is voting for a candidate based on what they have accomplished in the past.
What is retrospective voting?
The name for a type of federalsim that is most similar to a marble cake.
What is cooperative federalism?
Case that established one person, one vote - creating guidelines for drawing congressional districts.
What is Baker v. Carr?
The amendment AND clause used in the case Yoder v Wisconsin.
What is the 1st Amendment and the Free Exercise clause?
The economic theory arguing that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
What is Keynesian economics?
This Supreme Court decision got rid of previous legislation which limited how much money corporations could contribute to political parties - essentially allowing them unlimited funds.
What is Citizens United v FEC?
In order to amend the Constitution, this fraction of both houses of Congress must vote in favor of the amendment, along with this fraction of state legislatures.
What is 2/3 and 3/4?
This Amendment limits the president to only running for two terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
The term used to refer to when the judicial system can suppress material that would be published or broadcast, on the grounds that it is libelous or harmful. Famously brought up in New York Times Co. v. United States.
What is prior restraint?
This is the best predictor for how someone will vote.
What is party affiliation?
This amendment standardized the voting age to 18 (instead of 21).
What is the 26th Amendment?