Unit 1
Elite Democracy
This committee decides how bills pass through the House of Reps.
Rules Committee
The legal process of making the first 8 Amendments apply to states. Mr. Frye made you repeat this over and over again.
What is selective incorporation?
This term is refers to how we learn our values and ideas about politics. One of the terms Mr. Frye made us repeat over and over.
What is political socialization?
A woodchuck could chuck as much as a would chuck should chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
How much chuck could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
This was the structural solution to representation between small states and big states
What is Bicameral legislature
This is the government spending that is required by law and specifically goes to people in the US.
What is Entitlement Spending?
Officially defined as 'I know when I see it."
What is the legal definition of 'obscene?'
This is in reference to when people vote based on what they hope candidates will do in the future.
What is prospective voting?
The amendment that has been approved by both the House and the Senate but not yet by the states.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
The Latin phrase that means 'out of the aftermath,' legally it means that people cannot be tried for something before a law was made
What is Ex Post Facto?
This is an action by the president that directs how laws will be enforced. A message both to Congress and the Bureaucracy.
What is a Signing Statement?
Preferential treatment in admissions and employment opportunities designed to make-up for historical disparities.
What is affirmative action?
The media, elections, and interest groups groups are examples.
What are examples of linkage institutions?
The newest department in the US bureaucracy.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
The belief that democracy works best through a representative system
What is Republicanism?
This term refers to what cases go to which courts.
What is jurisdiction?
This is when illegally obtained evidence is not allowed to be used in a trial.
What is the exclusionary rule?
Winner-take-all districts, closed primaries, electoral college, and straight-ticket voting.
The university that founded College Board.
What is Columbia University?
Terms or goals set by the national government that states are required to meet. Sometimes funded, sometimes not.
What is a Federal Mandate?
When a bureaucratic agency solves a dispute between two parties in a manner similar to courts. Example, CDC resolving a dispute between two research universities.
Administrative Adjudication
While helping many, this actually upset women and started the modern female civil rights movement.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Independent Expenditure only Committees. Came into being after Citizens United v. FEC.
What are Super PACs?
When we are supposed to meet Mr. Frye and Mr. Dickey in the parking lot at the Church.
What is 7:45am, Monday May 3rd.