Elections, Campaigns, & Political Behavior.
This type of campaign shifts focus from parties to individual personalities, making voter appeal more important than experience.
What is a candidate-centered campaign?(Q25).
A president cannot fire a justice, but can still influence the Court over time using this method.
What is proposing constitutional amendments? (Q26).
The Framers designed this branch to be slow, deliberate, and cautious.
What is the legislative branch? (Q27)
What is Tinker v Des Moines?(Q36).
Wearing a shirt protesting school policy is considered this type of protected speech.
What is symbolic speech?(Q36).
This kind of government job appointment rewards supporters by giving them positions like ambassadorships.
What is political patronage?(Q38).
Congress can collect testimony and evaluate performances of agencies like VA using these sessions.
What are oversight hearings?(Q26).
A state violates the Constitution if it raises this to age 25.
What is the drinking age?(Q51).
Police reviewing your phone without warrant violates this Amendment.
What is the Fourth Amendment?(Q37).
This Amendment prevents the school or police from searching a student's cellphone without a warrant.
What is the Fourth Amendment?(Q37).
This three-sided relationship include Congress, interest group, and bureaucratic agencies working together.
What is an iron triangle?(Q38).
Presidents struggle in implementing policy partly because bureaucrats often do this when they disagree.
What is resisting or delaying presidential directives?(Q33).
MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail drew heavily on this clause guaranteeing equality under the law.
What is the equal protection clause?(Q49).
The death penalty has been limited largely because of this Amendment's ban on "cruel and unusual punishment."
What is the Eighth Amendment?(Q29).
A student leaving class for prayer may be linked to this First Amendment freedom.
What is the free exercise of religion?(Q32).
This policy area often creates conflict between valuing personal freedom and promoting equal opportunity.
What is affirmative action?(Q48).
During a recession, Keynesians recommend the government increase this to stimulate the economy.
What is federal spending?(Q50)
A woman denied access to an abortion can challenge the law under this implied constitutional right.
What is the right to privacy?(Q32).
Privacy rights have been expanded in cases related to contraception and abortion under this Amendment's implied rights.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?(Q32).
Congress's ability to set national economic rules, affecting states and schools, comes from this enumerated power.
What is the commerce clause?(Q35).
This congressional tool forces a bill stuck in committee to come to the House floor.
What is a discharge petition?(Q31).
Congress used this enumerated power to regulate employer health insurance in the 1985 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.
What is commerce power?(Q35).
A school using race-based segregation most directly violates this part of the Constitution.
What is the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause?(Q34).
Racially segregated schools violate the same clause used in Brown V. Board of Edu.
What is the equal protection clause?(Q34).
Keynesian economic policy increasing government spending can affect school funding through this federal process.
What is the national budgeting process?(Q50).