Federalism
Terms set by the national government that states must meet whether or not they accept federal grants.
What is a mandate?
The system in which two major political parties compete in the United States.
What is the two party system
A belief that you play a role in politics and the government is responsive to the participants.
What is political efficacy?
The Supreme Court case of Mapp v Ohio established this important 4th amendment process.
What is the exclusionary rule?
John Locke's three basic rights that must be protected by government.
What are life liberty and property?
This concept of federalism views the national and state governments as collaborating to solve common problems.
What is cooperative federalism?
The Political party that is generally in favor of government regulation and increased government spending.
What is the Democratic Party
The difference between the results of random poll samples at the same time.
What is a sampling error?
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?
Allowing the states and the federal government to exercise power separately in areas of legitimate concern to them characterize this form of federalism.
What is Dual Federalism?
Type of federal grant for a specific purpose.
What is a categorical grant?
This political party challenged the Jacksonian Democrats, but the Democrats typically dominated politically throughout this party era.
What was the Whig party?
The process by which a person forms his or her political views.
What is political socialization?
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?
A conservative movement designed to return more power and control of money to the states. The term was coined during the Nixon presidency.
What is New Federalism.
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)?
Party leaders and elected officials who automatically become delegates to the national convention.
What are superdelegates?
a portion of a speech aired on TV of fifteen seconds or less.
What is a sound bite?
Number of supreme court justices
What is 9?
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
Landmark case that held all interstate commerce will be regulated by the national government.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)?
The party that originated in the early 1900s that lead to the regulation of the meat industry and government reform.
What is the progressive party?
This law - requiring states to allow citizens to register to vote at the DMV - increased voter registration dramatically.
What is the motor-voter law? (National Voter Registration Act of 1993)
Number of justices that have to sign off on the writ of cert in order to put the case on the docket.
What is 4 out of 9?
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?