Comparative Government
The definition of sovereignty?
What is A strong nation-state that has the power to determine it's form of government and economic and social policies.
The definition of Federalism
What is the division of power between central government and state governments?
The number of articles in the Constitution
What is 7?
The political spectrum
What is a way of classifying political ideas (topics) along a geometric axis?
Suffrage
What is the term for the right or privilege of voting?
The difference between Direct & Representative Democracy?
What is direct citizen participation in politics and decision making versus a system in which policies are made by officials accountable to the people who elected them?
The number of justices on the Supreme Court
What is 9?
The branches that the first 3 articles of the Constitution set up
What is the Legislative Branch in Article 1, the Executive Branch in Article 2, and the Judicial Branch in Article 3 of the Constitution?
The three main political ideologies
What are liberals, conservatives, and moderates?
The current UNIVERSAL eligibility requirements to be a member of the electorate
What is citizenship, residency (of state), and being 18 or older?
The 4 characteristics of a Nation-State
What is territory, population, sovereignty and government?
The way people express their popular sovereignty in the United States
What are voting and elections?
The purpose and anatomy of the Bill of Rights
What are the first 10 Amendments apart of? What is the document that keeps government from limiting personal freedoms?
The process by which people develop their political identity and their attitudes towards government leaders, and issues.
What is political socialization?
The biggest source of ideas for Congress
What is the President/Executive Branch?
The belief of Hobbes, Locke, and Russeau on how a government is created and from which theory of origin
What is social contract theory?
The branch of government designed to be most responsive to the people
What is the House of Representatives?
What are Reserved Powers and Amendment 10?
The ideology associated with racial equality, social progress, individual rights
What is liberalism?
The branch in which citizen's can vote directly or the candidate, this branch makes the policies, and can be influenced by interest groups and voters.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Government promoting justice is an example of which of the 6 goals of the Preamble?
What is maintaining public order and safety?
The 3 opinions of the Supreme Court and the opinion that sets the precedent
What is the Majority Opinion, the Dissenting Opinion, and the Concurring Opinion? What is the Majority Opinion?
The Amendments that have expanded popular sovereignty over the years
What have the 17th, 15th, 19th, and 26th Amendments done?
-Recruit and identify leaders (nomination)
-Act as a watchdog against the opposition
-Get the information out to run the campaign
-Run the government (make public policy decisions)
What are the 4 roles of a political party?
The five basic stages of policymaking, implementation, and evaluation.
What is recognizing the problem, formulating the policy, adopting the policy, implementing the policy, and evaluating the policy?