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Constitutional Democracy
The Living Constitution
American Federalism
Political Culture and Ideology
The American Political Landscape
100
Government by the people, both directly or indirectly, with free and frequent elections.
What is Democracy
100
Election in which voters choose party nominees.
What is the Direct primary
100
The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
What is Devolution revolution
100
The widely shared beliefs, values, and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
What is Political culture
100
Belief in the superiority of one’s nation or ethnic group.
What is Ethnocentrism
200
The set of arrangements that requires our leaders to listen, think, bargain, and explain before they act or make laws.
What is Constitutionalism
200
Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may, by petition, propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
What is Initiative
200
Constitutional arrangement in which power is distributed between a central government and subdivisional governments.
What is Federalism
200
Democratic and civic habits of discussion, compromise, and respect for differences, which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
What is Social capital
200
Divisions within society that reinforce one another, making groups more homogenous or similar.
What is Reinforcing cleavages
300
The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the rights of the individuals who make up the nation.
What is Statism
300
Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
What is Recall
300
Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
What is Unitary system
300
The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights
What is Natural Rights
300
A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
What is Manifest destiny
400
Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
What is Majority Rule
400
The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or a government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or, in a state court, the state constitution
What is Judicial review
400
The powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow out of the very existence of the national government.
What is Inherent powers
400
Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
What is Antitrust legislation
400
Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
What is Cross-cutting cleavages
500
The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777, ratified in 1781, and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.
What are the Articles of Confederation
500
Constitutional grant of powers that enables each of the three branches of government to check some acts of the others and therefore ensure that no branch can dominate.
What is Checks and balances
500
Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs, rather than a layer cake, or dual federalism, with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government.
What is Marble cake federalism
500
An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government, promoting a free market economy, a noninterventionist foreign policy, and an absence of regulation in moral, economic, and social life
What is Libertarianism
500
Conservative Christians who (as a group) have become more active in politics in the last two decades and were especially influential in the 2000 presidential election.
What is Fundamentalists