Policy Making Process
What is the response, or lack of response, of government decision-makers to an issue?
Public Policy
What is federalism?
Division of power between the state and federal government
created a confederation of 13 states, giving each state one vote regardless of population, and requiring all 13 to make amendments
Articles of Confederation
various levels of government work togehter to solve policy problems, often with the federal government providing some portion of the funding
Cooperative Federalism
What are Civil Liberities?
In the 1990s citizens began noticing that illegal immigration was an issue and wanted to know how to limit it.
Agenda Building Identificaiton
What is the constitutional interpretation that gave the federal government exclusive control over some issues and states exclusive control over others
Dual Federalism
A constitution with equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House
Connecticut Plan
What is the necessary and proper clause
article 1, section 8: provides Congress with the authority to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out its expressed powers
What did the 14th Amendment do?
Incorporates the BOR to the states
The official decision of a government body to accept a particular policy to resolve the issue identified
Policy Adoption
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Reserved Powers
Which event led directly to the Constitutional Convention by providing evidence that the government created under the Articles of Confederation seemed inadequate?
Shay's Rebellion
Which amendment states the powers the Constitution does not delegate to the national government or prohibit to the states are reserved to the states?
Tenth Amendment
What is the Lemon Test?
used to determine whether a government's treatment of a religious institution constitutes "establishment of a religion
The president and key members of Congress present two proposals on the best way to reduce crime.
Policy Formulation
Gave Congress the authority to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out its expressed powers
Necessary and Proper Clause
Which constitutional propoesal argued that states should be represented in the national legislature according to their size and wealth?
Virgina Plan
Which constitutional clause requires that states normally honor the public acts and judicial decision of other states?
Full faith and credit clause
What are the provisions of the Lemon Test
government involvement must have a secular purpose;
its effect is neither to advance nor to inhibit religion, and;
it does not entangle government and religious institutions in each other’s affairs
The mayor of Flint Michigan issues a statement, acknowledging the water crisis and promises to fix it.
Access and Representaiton
Congressional grants are given to states and localities on the condition that expenditures be limited to a problem or group specified by law
Categorical grants
Why did the colonists design such a weak government with the Articles of Confederation?
Colonists distrusted big government, wanted a government close to home, did not want to concede economic power to fed
What are categorical grants?
Grants given to states and localities on the condition that expenditures be limited to a problem or group specified by law
a doctrine describing the ability of the federal government to prevent states from enacting laws that violate some of the basic constitutional rights of American citizens.