Unit 1
BLM, Women's Rights Movement, + the Environmentalist movement are all examples of this
What is Collective Action?
The type of democracy practiced in America where representatives are elected to represent a group of people.
What is representative democracy?
system set in place to make sure no branch gets too powerful
What is Separation of Powers?
Government-owned organizations and services, paid for by taxes, whose goal is to serve the people
What is the public sector?
The head of the Judicial Branch + the top of the federal court system
What is the Supreme Court?
The unintentional and deeply rooted bias about different groups
What is Implicit Bias?
Government gets its power from the people.
What is Consent of the Governed?
President approving bills from Congress + Senate confirming Supreme Court nomination
What is the system of Checks + Balances?
They can "swing" the election and cause the "other side" to win, because they take votes from the similar major party + draw attention to new topics and issues
What are third parties?
The rights read to you upon arrest
What are Miranda Rights?
No right to vote, hold political office, or attain political power for women, people of color
What is Disenfranchisement?
Additions to the US Constitution written to protect citizen's rights.
What are the Amendments?
This refers to previous legal rulings that establish a new rule that guides judges' decisions in future cases
What is a precedent?
The range of political beliefs from left to right, liberal to conservative
What is the Political Spectrum?
The power to exercise authority over a person, subject matter, or territory
What is Jurisdiction?
This process determines the allocation of federal funds and number of representatives each state gets in Congress.
What is the purpose of the US Census?
The rule that the Constitution is the ultimate rule of the land over other state + local laws.
What is the Supremacy clause?
These people do not work in Congress, but hang out with members of Congress all the time in order to use their money and influence to get the representatives to vote a certain way
What is a lobbyist?
These are the state-by-state contests between dozens of candidates for elected office that take place during spring of a presidential election year. The purpose is for voters to pick who will be on the final ballot on Election Day in November.
What are primaries + caucuses?
Set of laws made so the government can not take away our freedom or our property without following a legal set of rules and procedures
What are Due Process laws?
Name the four types of American Residence
1. Natural Born Citizen
2. Naturalized Citizen
3. Legal Resident
4. Undocumented Person
Name the five sections of the First Amendment.
What is Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, + Petition?
This is when members of Congress who are from opposing political parties, and who usually do not agree, work together for the good of the people
What is bipartisanship?
The system used to select the president in the United States, in which the winner must get the majority of the 538 state votes available (270 votes to win):
What is the Electoral College?
Fred Korematsu felt his Fifth Amendment right to due process was being violated when Americans of Japanese descent were forcefully relocated into concentration camps. When he sued the US, this was an example of...
What is Constitutional Law?