Seventeen specific powers granted to Congress under Article I, section 8 of the Constitution.
What are enumerated powers?
100
Voting for candidates of different parties for various offices in the same election.
What is ticket-splitting?
100
A form of newspaper publishing that featured pictures, comics, color, and sensationalized news coverage.
What is yellow journalism?
100
The redistricting of states/town lines by parties to guarantee that their candidates are elected.
What is gerrymandering?
100
Codes of behavior related to the conduct and relationships between individuals or groups.
What is civil law?
200
The Constitution bars the national and state governments from passing these laws.
What are ex post facto laws?
200
Emigration from Europe fueled the development in America of these.
What are political machines?
200
Officially registered fund-raising organization that represents interest groups in the political process.
What is a political action committee?
200
Committee to which proposed bills are referred; continues from one Congress to the next.
What is a standing committee?
200
The Supreme Court first asserted the power of judicial review by finding that the congressional statue extending the Courts original jurisdiction was unconstitutional.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
300
This case set a precedent for later rulings upholding expansive federal powers by using the Constitutions supremacy clause.
What is McCulloch vs. Maryland?
300
Gender, race and ethnicity, age, and religion are all examples of these.
What are demographic characteristics?
300
The activities of a group or organization that seek to persuade political leaders to support the group's position.
What is lobbying?
300
Legislation that allows representatives to bring money and jobs to their districts in the form of public works programs, military bases, or other programs.
What is pork?
300
The 1935 law that established old age insurance; assistance for the needy, aged, blind, and families with dependent children; and unemployment insurance.
What is Social Security Act?
400
When the tax level increases as the wealth or ability of an individual or business to pay decreases.
What is a regressive tax?
400
Representative to the Democratic partys national convention that is reserved for a party official and whose vote at the convention is unpledged to a candidate.
What is a superdelegate?
400
A relatively restricted session between a press secretary or aide and the press.
What is a press briefing?
400
Vote trading; voting to support a colleague's bill in return for a promise of future support.
What is logrolling?
400
Law that established national primary and secondary standards for air quality in the United States.
What is the Clean Air Act of 1970?
500
The belief that people are free and equal by natural right, and that this in turn requires that all people give their consent to be governed.
What is social contract theory?
500
This specific type of government is not possible for the U.S.
What is direct democracy?
500
When potential members fail to join a group because they can get the benefit, or collective good, sought by the group without contributing the effort.
What is free rider problem?
500
Powers that belong to the president because they can be inferred from the Constitution.
What are inherent powers?
500
Part of the Fifth Amendment that protects individuals from being tried twice for the same offense in the same jurisdiction.