Political Parties
An outdated party organization that recruits members by dispensing patronage.
What is a political machine?
Terms set by the national government that states must meet whether or not they accept federal grants.
What is a mandate?
Term used to describe powers shared by the national and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
This plan for national government, written by James Madison, created an executive and legislative branch that would be dominated by larger populated states.
What is the Virginia Plan
The supreme court decision in Bakke v California Board of Regents dealt with?
What is affirmative action or reverse discrimination?
A period when a significant shift occurs in the coalitions of national political parties.
What is a realignment (or critical period)?
This concept of federalism views the national and state governments as collaborating to solve common problems.
What is cooperative federalism?
This large-state contribution to the Constitutional Convention called for a strong national government.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This compromise satisfied southern fears that the north would fund the national government with a tax on exports?
What is the slave trade and commerce compromise?
The custom of allowing a senator from the president's own party have input on the selection of Federal district court judges.
What is Senatorial Courtesy?
This political party challenged the Jacksonian Democrats, but the Democrats typically dominated politically throughout this party era.
What was the Whig party?
Type of federal grant for a specific purpose.
What is a categorical grant?
This uprising of Revolutionary War veterans brought attention to several weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
This event served as a dramatic example of the failure of the Articles of Confederation?
What is Shay's Rebellion?
In a case regarding abortion, interest groups such as Right to Life and Planned Parenthood file this kind brief urging the court to decide the case in their favor.
What is an Amicus Curaie brief?
Party leaders and elected officials who automatically become delegates to the national convention.
What are superdelegates?
Landmark case that held a national ban on guns in a school zone had violated the commerce clause.
What is U.S. v. Lopez (1995)?
According to C Wright Mills, this group - along with powerful elected officials and corporate leaders - forms the "power elite."
What is the military?
Worried that states would not be able to select competent choices to serve as the chief executive in this process electors were selected by states and "directed" by the popular vote to select a president.
What is the electoral college?
Rare court cases, "affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party", where only the Supreme Court can hear the case.
What is Supreme Court Original Jurisdiction?
The first two political parties in the US
What are the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
Landmark case that held all interstate commerce will be regulated by the national government.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
This political philosopher was most known among the Founding Fathers for promoting the separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
Nine of the thirteen states.
What is the number of states that needed to ratify the constitution in order for it to take effect.
Rights not clearly defined but existing in the "shadow" of formal Constitutional rights. An example being the right to privacy.
What are penumbra rights