Foundations
The Rule of Law states that laws should be clear, publicized, stable and _______.
What is fair?
This Amendment solidifies the US as a Federalist Nation
What is the 10th Amendment?
What are Establishment and Free Exercise clauses, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition for Grievances?
What are Establishment and Free Exercise clauses, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition for Grievances?
By providing information and working with congressmen at the committee and subcommittee level, these people hope to influence legislation for their own gain
Who are lobbyists (or interest groups)?
A key idea/argument from Brutus I
What are a strong military, too many taxes, less freedom, taking power away from the States, inability to represent such a diverse nation, or regression back to the monarchy?
Hobbes and Locke are both Political Scientists that wrote extensively about the relationship between people and their government. That relationship is called _______.
What is Social Contract Theory?
The trend in responsibilities or powers being transferred from the Federal Government to State and Local Governments is called this
What is Devolution?
The Formal Powers of the President are defined in this Article and Section
What is Article II Section 2 (clauses 1, 2, and 3)
Standing (or permanent), Joint (mostly for economic and taxing reasons), Conference (between both houses), and Select (to solve a specific issue) are all adjectives that describe this important feature of Congress
What are committees?
The two out of three types of protections against infringement of government power on individual freedoms discussed in Federalist 51 are this.
What are Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, and Federalism?
One way the US Constitution was designed to directly impact the economy was this
What is levy taxes, pay debts, borrow money, coin money and regulate its value, regulate foreign and interstate commerce, establish uniform laws of bankruptcy, punish piracy, punish counterfeiting, establish standard weights and measures, establish post office and post roads, or protect copyrights and patents? (seriously, just look at A1 S8)
The Supremacy clause says these three things shall constitute the Supreme Law of the Land (A6 c2)
What is the Constitution, the laws of the national government (so long as they're consistent with the Constitution, and treaties?
These are the fractions of House Reps and Senators needed to Propose and Amendment, and this is the fraction of States Legislators needed to Ratify an Amendment
What is 2/3 and 3/4, respectively?
A group of members of Congress sharing some interest or characteristic. Many are composed of members from both parties and from both houses.
What are Congressional caucuses
These two lines, "life liberty and property/pursuit of happiness" show these two Authors held similar views in drafting the Declaration of Independence and the 2nd Treatise on Civil Government.
Who are Thomas Jefferson and John Locke? (Social Contract Theory)
Three types of Democracies discussed in Chapter 1: Introducing Government in America are Participatory (traditional), Elitism, and _____.
What is Pluralism (or Hyperpluralism)?
This type of grant tends to be more popular with the States as it comes with less Federal Regulation so long as it supports a broad area of Federal Jurisdiction.
What is a Block Grant?
This is one of the individual right's issues that were resolved well before the Bill of Rights was ratified
What is Writ of Habeas Corpus, not allowing Bills of Attainder or Ex Post Facto laws, and prohibiting a religious test from holding office (Article 1, Section 9 and Article 6 clause 3)
This amendment fundamentally changed the behavior of Senators by allowing the people to directly vote for them instead of having our State Legislators appoint them (they now focus a lot more on constituency service and election cycles)
What is the 17th Amendment?
The method by which a large republic breaks and controls the violence and effects of factions
What is by having a strong Constitution that makes it impossible for any one self-interested faction to take all political power in the Federal Government?
or
What is by knowing that passions found in any one state tend not to influence another state's factions as well and those interests will compete at the Federal level?
This facet of American Political Culture is embedded in the Declaration of Independence's line, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
What is Egalitarianism?
Article IV (4) describes Full Faith and Credit, Extradition, and Privileges and Immunities. These are all examples of this
The clause in the 14th Amendment that has been used to define Civil Rights (not liberties)
What is, "nor shall any state [...] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law."?
This is a reason the government may shut down
What is literally anytime Congress can't finalize a budget by October 1st
The Federalist paper that discusses the need of a single, energetic Executive as well as how chaotic a multi-headed Executive would be as there would never be responsibility or accountability when it comes to policy implementation
What is Federalist 70?