The process of making collective decisions - usually by governments - to allocate public resources and to create and enforce rules for the operation of society.
What is politics?
100
The protectors of citizens from improper governmental action; limits on the government’s authority to interfere in certain spheres of activity.
What are civil liberties?
100
535
What is the number of members in Congress?
100
Cabinet departments, independent agencies, and government corporations.
What are the 3 types of agencies within the executive?
100
This power is often used by the body detailed in Article Three, but isn’t expressly written in the Constitution.
What is judicial review?
200
A fancy word for “two houses or two chambers.”
What is bicameralism?
200
The right to privacy was confirmed and extended in this 1973 case, considered to be the most important of all privacy decisions, and one of the most important Supreme Court decisions.
What is Roe v. Wade?
200
Representation, legislation, and oversight.
What are the functions of Congress?
200
Courts can declare actions of the president unconstitutional. Congress can override a veto, and can hold impeachment hearings.
What are checks on the president?
200
Appoints justices to the Supreme Court.
Who is the president?
300
The necessary and proper clause is under this article.
What is Article 1?
300
In this video clip: http://youtu.be/WwoM5fLITfk (from approx. 1:36-1:54) Mr. Carter illustrates a knowledge of this amendment.
What is the Forth Amendment?
300
Members trade benefits, quid pro quo; logrolling.
What is the Pork-barrell Model?
300
Executive orders, executive agreements, and signing statements.
What are tools of the president to bypass checks?
300
US courts deal with two types of cases.
What are criminal and civil cases?
400
The supremacy clause is under this article.
What is Article 6?
400
Case involving high school students and a sign reading “Bong Hits 4 Jesus.”
What is Morse v. Frederick?
400
These handle much of the detailed legislative work in Congress by focusing on a particular area of policy (jurisdiction).
What are committees?
400
When agencies care more about the industries than the principals they work for.
What is bureaucratic capture?
400
The US operates largely under this type of legal system.
What is a common law system?
500
An agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention (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 Connecticut Compromise?
500
Literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clause, white primary, etc.
What are civil rights failures?
500
Gerrymandering, pork, television access, campaign finance & national party efforts.
What are the causes of the incumbency advantage?
500
Occurs when the agents depart from the mandates given to them by the principals.
What is bureaucratic drift?
500
Facts of the case and plain meaning of relevant statutes.
What is the legal model of judicial decision-making?