UNIT 1
Greece had a direct democracy, Rome had a _________ democracy
Representative (or Elite)
The House and Senate pass a similar bill, but there are still some significant differences. What group will be tasked with compromising on these differences?
Conference committee
The necessary and proper and commerce clauses are to be found in this Article and Section of the Constitution
Article 1, Section 8
The school has told Khoi that he cannot publish his expose on the link between Mr. Marestaing's use of cardboard cutouts, and his alleged ties to North Korean, the school is attempting to practice this ...
prior restraint
Your grandparents probably trusted their government much less than you do, but let's pretend your grandparents were born in the United States, and if that was the case, then they definitely trusted and still trust the government _________ than you do
More
This type of requirement, imposed by the federal government on states, often comes without funding, like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Federal Mandate
An executive order that is used to formalize a relationship with a foreign country is called a ...
Executive Agreement
This SCOTUS case incorporated the 4th amendment so as to now apply to the States.
Mapp v Ohio
The AP people hate Communists, so you only are allowed to learn about three political parties, the Democrats, the Republicans, and the ___________
Libertarians
Go big or go home. Americans hate a loser, always and forever, and for this reason our elections are almost always single-district _________-take-all elections, so that even those 2nd place weaklings never find their way into power
Winner
Article 5 is about this ..
amending the Constitution
The Executive has the most power in foreign policy: What is a standing informal US foreign policy position named after the President who asserted it?
Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corollary, Truman Doctrine, or Eisenhower Doctrine
Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that removing this restriction/guideline of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, was like, "throwing away an umbrella because it had stopped raining."
Preclearance
This guy watched his friends die at Valley Forge when he was 20 and realized how selfish and against the interests of the country the States were, and for this reason, he sought to expand federal power when he became the Chief Justice of SCOTUS
John Marshall
An old man, a rich man, a woman with a PhD, a 40 year old Asian woman, and an 18 year old are sitting together on a bench. Who is the most likely to vote?
The woman with the PhD
The only way to remove a SCOTUS justice is by ________ing them
Kill, or impeach
A congressional election in an undisclosed state or district, in an undisclosed year is occurring, and you are talking to one of the candidates. If your life depends on guessing whether that candidate will win, and you can ask them just one question, what is the question?
Are you the incumbent?
After getting a new trial, Gideon initially rejected the opportunity, because he believed he was protected from having to be tried twice for the same crime because the 5th amendment has a provision against ...
double jeopardy
This lifecycle event was probably the easiest for Boomers, and the hardest for Millennials/Gen Z
buying/owning a home
Name the 4 linkage institutions
Interest groups, political parties, the media, and elections
Why did the author of Brutus 1, give himself the nom de plume (pen name) "Brutus" ?
because Brutus is who killed Julius Caesar (after Julius Caesar abolished the Republic of Rome)
SCOTUS has ruled that a certain criminal law the President opposed is in fact constitutional. If the President wants to undermine the law's enforcement, what cabinet position will he instruct to not enforce it?
Attorney General
In Shaw v. Reno, Janet Reno was supervising the government enforcement of the Voting Rights Act in her capacity of holding this office ...
Attorney General
The name for when you let some polling/survey results count more than others in order to make your results equally representative of the general population
weighting (or stratification)
3 men wrote the (pro)Federalist Papers: Madison, Hamilton, and this poor chap we don't care about at all ...
John Jay