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