Documents
A Series of amendments to the Constitution that guarantees individual freedoms and due process
What is the Bill of Rights?
The powers assumed by congress that come from the necessary and proper clause.
What are Implied powers?
This party wants a large government, higher taxes, individual rights, gay rights, gun control, and pro-choice.
What are Democrats?
A system in which the branches of government have powers that affect and control the other parts so that no part can become too powerful.
What are Checks and Balances?
A set of values and beliefs about the purpose and scope of the government held by groups and individuals.
What is Political ideology?
Establishes that people are created equal, America is separate from Britain, and states the principles of the US government.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is given based on applications for those who would like to participate. This can be given to states, local governments, or non-government agencies.
What are Project Grants?
These people are nationalistic, moralistic, traditionalist, and have a huge military emphasis.
What are Conseratives?
Slaves would count as 3/5ths of a person in determining state populations for senator/representative counts.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
These are continuous surveys that enable a campaign to chart its daily rise or fall in support. This is more relevant closer to the election date.
What are tracking polls?
This document argued that the establishment of representative democracy is effective rejected direct democracy and factionalism.
States must recognize civil judgments rendered by courts in different states and accept their records and acts as valid. This however is not valid with criminal decisions.
What are the Full Faith and Credit Clause (Article 4, Section 1)?
Nominate candidates for each public office and support winning them along with gathering support for them.
What is the Nominating Function?
These are powers that are shared by both the Federal and state governments.
What are Concurrent Powers?
These are taken for the purpose of providing information on an opponent that would lead respondents to vote against that candidate.
What are Push Polls?
This document is the supreme law of the US, containing 7 articles & 26 amendments, and creating the framework of the US government
What is the Consitution?
Congressional orders to states that are not funded by the Federal Government.
What are Unified Mandates?
This is when political parties criticize the other political party in power, providing scrutiny and criticism about the ruling politicians.
What is the Watchdog function?
These are powers not written down or stated in the Constitution. The powers are typically given to the state's government.
What are Reserved Powers?
These are interviews or surveys from samples of citizens used to give their feelings and beliefs of the entire population.
This document argued that a free republic cannot govern over a country and the federal government would abuse its power and control the people.
What is Brutus 1?
This gives Congress the power to “regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes”.
What is the Commerce Clause?
This helps ensure a good performance of its candidates and having background checks to ensure the quality of candidates.
What is the Bonding Agent Function?
This called for the separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Created a bicameral legislature with both houses based on proportionate representation. Adopted by Convention and written into Constitution.
What is the Virginia Plan?
Family, school, peers, mass media, religious beliefs, race or ethnicity, gender, age, region, and the impact of events have an effect on this.
What are the factors of Political Socilization?