Key Doccuments
What document is the supreme Law of the land?
What is the Constitution
What is a requirement the states must follow given by the federal government?
What is Federal Mandates
What is a group that works to get a candidate elected to public office?
What is a political party
What document was the first laws of America?
What is the Articles of Confederation
What are some of the sociological factors for voting?
What is Income, occupation, Education, Gender, Age, Family beliefs, Religious beliefs, and more
What documents was created to protect the basic rights of the people?
What is the Bill od Rights
What are the 3 types of grants and a word/phrase to describe them?
Categorial - heavily monitored
Block - broad category
Project - apply for it
What are a political party's principles goals called?
What is a political platform
Why did the AOC fail?
The federal government couldn't tax, couldn't regulate foreign and domestic commerce, couldn't enforce anything on the states, and have no uniform currency.
What are the types of voting systems?
What is winner take all, single-member district, and proportional representation
What document explained why the colonies decided to split from Britain?
What is the Declaration of indepencdence
What requires the states to respect another state's laws and judicial proceedings?
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause
What is a political contributions that is made in a way to avoid federal mandates called?
What is Soft Money
Who had most of the power under the AOC?
The states had more power then the federal govenrment
What are the psychological factors of voting and a phrase about them?
Party identification - votes for what they align with a party doesn't matter
Straight ticket - only voting for 1 party
Split ticket - different parties for different positions
What document disagreed with the federal government and that the constitution was going to give them too much power?
What is Brutus 1
What clause requires a person who flees to another state must be returned to the state in which they committed the crime?
What is Extradition
What are the minor political parties?
What is Libertarian and Green Party
What was the uprising in Massachuttes to oppose mortgage foreclosures?
What is Shays rebellion
Why don't people vote?
Some cant for health reasons, some traveling, some in prison, and some don't since they believe their vote doesn't matter.
What document warned against Factions and competing interests?
What is Federalist 10
What system allows the 3 branches of government to not become overpowered in one branch since the other branches can prevent it?
What is Checks and Balences
What are the common political parties?
What are Republican and Democratic parties
What was the impact of the AOC on the constitution?
From the AOC they learned that a weak central government wasn't going to work so the COnstitution was made to fix what wasn't working
What are some of the polls called?
Push, exit, Benchmark, opinion, tracking, and entrance polls