FINAL Flashcards
1
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Aristocracy
A
Few, legitimate
2
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Not in great compromise
A
Automatically admit Canada
3
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Gibson v Ogden
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Interstate commerce
4
Q
Presidents party friends gain power?
A
Coattail!
5
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Is natural born citizen defined?
A
Nope.
6
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Government by many
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Democracy
7
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Why did Britain tax the colonies?
A
They needed moneys after The French and Indian war.
8
Q
Congress’ vehicle to expand power
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The commerce clause
9
Q
Primary goal of those in congress
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Get re elected.
10
Q
Presidential directive
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Executive order
11
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Ratting your buddy out for your own gain?
A
The prisoners dilemma
12
Q
Shays rebellion
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Uprising of farmers
Weak aoc
Block foreclosures
Inability to pay debt.
13
Q
Freedom in spending money for states?
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Block grants
14
Q
Already holds office
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The encumbant
15
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Impeachment process
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House charges, senate convicts
16
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Free rider problem
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Slackers more prevalent in large groups
17
Q
Strong national government
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Federalist a
18
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States have to change, but no money given.
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Unfounded mandates
19
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Franking privileges
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Use postal service for free
20
Q
Has a president ever been impeached?
A
Nope
21
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Exploitation of resources
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Tragedy of the commons
22
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Virginia plan
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Unicameral legislature
23
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Name a disadvantage of federalism
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Inconsistent policies
24
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Special projects added?
A
Pork barrel spending
25
Ratified in 1951?
22nd amendment
26
Collective action costs?
Transaction
| Conformity
27
Great compromise?
2 chamber legislature
| Equal rep in one, population rep in the other.
28
What guarantees unmentioned powers?
The tenth amendment
29
Conveys the wants of the party
Party whips
30
Ratified the 1976 line of succession
25th
31
All citizens participate
Direct democracy
32
10 amendments?
The bill of rights
33
House term limit
Two years
34
Presiding officer of the senate
President pro tempore
35
How many justices?
9
36
Most frequent use of of amending
Proposal by 2/3rd of both houses, 3/4 of star legislatures.
37
Federalism?
Shared governments
38
How many congressional districts?
It's actually unset
39
Permanent committees specialized?
Standing committees
40
Marbury v Madison
Judicial review
41
All members of senate
Selected by state legislatures
42
McCulloch v Maryland
Nat government has more powers
43
Moving districts around to benefit yourself
Gerrymandering.
44
What kind of committee deals with sensitive topics in the House of Representatives?
Ad hoc committees
45
What is standing
Having stake in he outcome of the case
46
Not defiency under the AOC?
They're all deficiencies.
47
Policy merge across all levels of government?
Marble cake!
48
West burry v sanders?
Population
49
Cloture requires what voting fraction?
3/5ths of the senate
50
Justice appointment process?
Prez nominates
| Senate approves
51
First primaries?
Front loading
52
Who do we pay attention to during primaries?
The firs states with primaries?
53
Significant lasting shift in the pattern of support for political parties
Realignment
54
Characteristics of the political machine?
Food, immigration, loyal, corrupt
55
Really awesome delegates at primaries?
Super delegates.
56
Agencies, congress, and interest groups?
Iron triangles
57
Inferences from public opinion polls
Salience
58
What is not a reason for the decrease of political parties?
Increased immigration
59
Examples of media influence?
Agenda setting, framing, priming
60
What's a less stable relationship?
Issue network
61
Publicly funded decrease influence of corporate money
True
62
Registered independents at primaries
Semi closed
63
Grassroots lobbying?
Citizens lobbying congress through interest groups
64
Media coverage?
Conflict
Negative
Scandal
President
65
Are financial benefits selective?
Nope
66
What type of journalism results from media flocking?
Pack journalism
67
Tactic used by interest groups
Everything
68
Public action committees!
Specialized organization that raise funds and donate to candidates
69
Difference of opinions between male and female?
The gender gap
70
What happens when the people are journalists?
Citizen journalism
71
Party identification
A Factor in who they will vote for.
72
How many members of the electoral college?
538
73
How to recruit members?
Selective benefits
74
Questions that can't be answered with a binary response.
Open ended questions.
75
Journalism with sensational headlines?
Yellow journalism
76
Does the US churn out the most voters?
Nope!
77
Who runs the elections?
State governers.
78
Adding legislation to the ballot?
Initiative
79
People that benefit from collective action, but don't contribute.
Free riders
80
12th amendment
Describes voting process?
81
Incumbency advantage?
People in office have the upper hand.
82
Unregulated money from parties
Soft money
83
Institution, part of the exec branch, that's part of the exec branch but not under prez control.
Independent reg. commissions
84
Spoils system?
The winning party dispensing jobs!
85
Doing what the boss wants
The principal agent problem
86
After something goes wrong
Fire alarm
87
Attempt to influence the courts?
Amicus curea
88
Median voter theory
Candidates moving to the center
89
Buckley v Valero
Mandatory spending limits unconstitutional
90
Who is least likely to vote?
The young
91
What is not an advantage to the political party system?
Limiting the issues. One has nothing to do with the other.
92
Acquiring political attitudes
Socialization
93
Who is the Chief Justice?
John Roberts
94
Exclusionary rule?
State can't use illegally obtained evidence
95
Burning flag made constitutional
TX v Johnson
96
Schools unsegregated
Brown v board of edu
97
Plessy v fergeson
Maintain separate but equal facilities
98
Griswol v Connecticut
Privacy in marital bed
99
Baron v Baltimore
Bill of rights doesn't apply to states
100
Not testify against oneself
5th amendment
101
Segregation by law?
De Jure.
102
Slowly incorporating BOR to states.
Selective incorporation
103
Civil rights?
Protections provided by government
104
Civil liberties
Protections from government
105
Shenck v. US
Limitations to freedom of speech
106
Where does it say that there is a right to privacy?
No where.
107
Establishment clause?
Can't favor one religion
108
What reversed plessy v ferguson?
Brown v. Board of education
109
Jim Crow laws?
Required segregation in public
110
Right to speedy trial?
6th amendment
111
Affirmative action?
Laws and policies for disadvantage
112
How did they keep the blacks from voting?
Absentee voting
113
Why did blacks move north?
Obtain electoral power
114
Griswald
Privacy rights
115
Is the government designed to be easy to change?
No
116
Prayer in school against what?
Establishment of religion
117
Right of assembly?
Provided in 1st
118
If you have disabilities?
ADA
119
Banned use of white primaries?
Smith v alright
120
Minor tweaks in systems
Incrementalism
121
Right against forced confessions?
Miranda
122
Mapp v Ohio
Exclusionary rules
123
Prior restraint?
Press can do whatever, just can't guarantee what happens after.
124
How did Virginia get around desegregation?
Made schools private
125
What applied the BOR to the states?
The 14th amendment
126
Gideon v. Wainwright
Legal counsel to indignant defendants
127
Guarantees against unreasonable search and seizure
4th amendment
128
Banned segregation
Civil rights act of 1964
129
Racial quotas ruled unconstitutional
Bache for UC
130
Title VII
Include gender
131
Freedom of the press
Near v.minnesota
132
Gitlow v. New York
Free speech
133
Cruel and unusual punishment?
8th amendment
134
Dred Scott
Slaves are property
135
Gay sex
Lawrence v. Texas
136
Equal rights amendment designed for?
Women
137
Protection against double jeopardy
5th amendment
138
What did they take from the freedom riders?
Mattresses!!!!!!!!
