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Where in the Constitution?
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Party Rock Polls
100
This argues that pluralism is the best guarantee of liberty, and that a large republic is the best guarantee of pluralism
What is Federalist 10?
100
This originally had only four members
What is the Supreme Court?
100
"The powers not delegated to the Unites States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
What is the 10th Amendment?
100
An executive check on the legislative branch in which the executive shoots down (figuratively) a bill passed in Congress.
What is a veto?
100
It's current coalition includes labor, minorities, and those who in most other countries would be called "greens"
What is the Democratic Party?
200
The power reserved to the state governments to regulate health, safety, and morals of its citizens
What is police power?
200
A period of political discord, military competition, and proxy wars between the USSR and the US that took place from 1947 to 1991
What is the Cold War?
200
One of its clauses reads "The Congress shall have the Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises...."
What is Article 1, Section 8
200
A check the Supreme Court can exercise on the executive and legislative branches
What is judicial review?
200
Founded by anti-slavery activists, modernists, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers in 1854
What is the Republican Party?
300
The power delegated by the state to a local unit of government to manage its own affairs?
What is home rule?
300
An agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that gave each state an equal number of senators regardless of its population but linked representation in the House to population
What is the Great Compromise?
300
This clause of Article VI of the Constitution states that laws passed by the national government and all treaties are the law of the land and thus overrule state law that might be contradictory
What is The Supremacy Clause?
300
When the president or another government official is brought to trial (the trial's purpose would be to remove the official from office)
What is Impeachment? (a power reserved, like initiating revenue bills, to the House)
300
A party official who is free to support any candidate for the presidential nomination at the party's national convention.
What is a super-delegate (and, as we have been reminded this year, if the first round of voting doesn't decided the nomination, nearly all delegates are given this freedom in subsequent rounds)
400
The type of government in which fundamental governmental powers were mostly distinct between the federal and state governments (sort of like a layer cake)
What is dual federalism?
400
The biggest difference is that the latter created a strong central government headed by an executive with enough autonomy to respond to crises
What is the difference between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution?
400
It reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
What is the Establishment clause of the 1st Amendment? (The other religion clause there is the Free Exercise Clause)
400
Nominates Supreme Court judges
Who is the President?
400
A shift in electoral support in favor of the candidate whom public opinion polls report to be the front-runner
What is the bandwagon effect?
500
Describes the nature of the relationship between state and federal government since the New Deal Era, including such things as grants-in-aid used strategically to urge states to work toward national goals
What is cooperative federalism?
500
Ratified in 1868, this made us all citizens of BOTH the state and the country, setting up that states could not have laws that deny us guaranteed rights
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
That's the essence of the Full Faith and Credit Clause
What is that states must accept contracts made in other states as valid
500
A legislative maneuver that allows an official, under certain circumstances, to reject a bill by taking no action on it.
What is a pocket veto?
500
The impression conveyed by media choices and by polls that something is important to the public that actually isn't
What is the illusion of salience?