The institutions and procedures through which a land and its people are ruled
What is government?
100
The group that supported ratification of the Constitution
What are the Federalists?
100
The division of powers and functions between different levels of government.
What is federalism?
100
The mechanisms through which each branch of government is able to participate in and influence the activities of the other branches
What are checks and balances?
100
The basis of civil liberties
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
Conflicts and struggles over the leadership/structure/policies of government
What is politics?
200
Document written at the 2nd Continental Congress in 1776
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
The type of federalism that existed prior to 1930s, where state and local governments did most of the governing; aka layer cake federalism
What is dual federalism?
200
Nomination of judges & justices; issuance of federal pardons (Answer: What are checks of the ___________ over the ______________ ?)
What are checks of the executive over the judicial branch?
200
Two common exceptions to the right to free speech
What are libel and slander?
300
The idea that political action is a complex combination of individual actions in which people cooperate for a variety of motivations.
What is the Collective-Action Principle?
300
The British action that caused Northern merchants and Southern planters to join with radical anti-colonial groups
What is taxation?
300
Powers that are necessary for the federal government to be able to carry out its expressed powers
What are implied powers?
300
Rejection of appointments and veto override.
(Answer: What are checks of____________ over ____________?)
What are checks of the legislature over the executive?
300
The 3-part test used to determine whether government involvement with a religious institution is acceptable
What is the Lemon test?
400
Enjoying benefits others have paid for. Example: going to Canada to buy subsidized medications
What is free-riding?
400
The decision to have a bicameral legislature, with one house having equal representation and one having proportional.
What is the Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise)?
400
Supreme Court case that upheld Congress' right to charter a bank and struck down a state's right to tax a federal institution.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
400
Determining the constitutionality of federal law
(Answer: What is a checks of the __________ over _____________?)
What are checks of the judicial branch over the legislative?
400
The process by which the Bill of Rights is applied to the States
What is selective incorporation?
500
The idea that the "rules of the game" are an important factor shaping politics.
What is the Institution Principle?
500
No standing army, inability to collect taxes, weak executive
What are weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
500
The constitutional justification for allowing FDR's administration to establish the set of economic regulations and relief programs known as the New Deal.
What is the Commerce Clause?
500
The Supreme Court case that established judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
500
Amendment that explicitly applied the Bill of Rights to the States