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1
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What is Institutional Advertising?

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the advertising of an organization, company, or type of product so that people have a positive opinion of it, rather than the advertising of a particular product or service

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What do Lobbyists do?

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help the legislature and create indirect pressure for candidates (schmoozers)

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What do Lobbyists NOT do?

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they do not nominate candidates to run for office

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4
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Is lobbying legal?

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Yes, because it’s protected under the U.S. Constitution

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What is an Iron Triangle and what is an example?

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comprises the policy-making relationship among the congressional committees, the bureaucracy, and interest groups

legislative committee, interest group, and an executive agency

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What group was founded in 1909 that spread awareness for the civil rights of colored people?

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the NAACP

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What do Anglican Christians have great effect on?

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American politics

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How many PACs were there in the U.S. in 2012?

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over 5,000

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what does agency representation mean in terms of legislation?

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the people choose a representative to carry out their wishes in Congress

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What is an incumbent?

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someone who holds the political office

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What is reapportionment?

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the process of dividing the number of State representatives and senators among the State’s population in order to assure, as close as possible, districts of equal size

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Why is there such a small amount of women in Congress?

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incumbent allows the people in Congress to continuously be re-elected

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What is Constituency service?

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the general term for what parliamentarians do to serve and represent the interests of their constituents

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14
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Who is the top leader in the house in the majority party?

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the speaker

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15
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Is Congressional oversight a tool of partisan politics?

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YAASSS

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16
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which article of the seven articles of the constitution covers the executive branch?

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Article 2

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17
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what kind of powers derive for the rights duties and obligations of the presidency?

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inherent powers

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18
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What did the framers of the Constitution want?

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framers wanted the executive branch to be the weakest one but it is now the strongest because the world has become complex

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What did the War Power Act do?

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the congress can limit the war or stop a military action

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What is NOT a typical American Interest Group?

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Potential Interest Groups

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21
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What did the house of ways and means have and do?

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entitlement, taxes, trade, and control of money

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What are four joint committees in Congress?

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Ex. Agriculture, Armed Services, TAXATION, Intelligence

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23
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Has party unity gone up or down in recent years?

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UP

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What is the difference between log rolling and pork barreling?

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logrolling is exchanging of favors such as trading votes to gain passage of actions of interest to each legislative member

pork rolling example: a political candidate would climb on an inverted pork barrel on the street corner by the local general store to address the crowd.

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25
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Do federal accords have an affect on the legislative agenda?

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NAHHH

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26
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Is the impeachment process based on partisanship?

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YAASS

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27
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What does Eisenhower sending troops to Little Rock Arkansas in 1957 to integrate black students in school show?

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President using emergency powers to protect states

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28
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What was granted to draft evaders?

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Amnesty because of Jimmy Carter

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29
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What does OMB stand for and what are they in control of?

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Office in the Management of Budget

3 trillion dollar budget

30
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What does the President’s popularity do as time goes on?

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the general tendency of the President’s popularity starts high then goes lo

31
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What would you call when bureaucrats take laws and turn it into action?

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Implementation

32
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What is a government corporation?

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Amtrak and the U.S. Postal Service

33
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Does federal bureaucracy make the laws?

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NAHHH they carry out laws

34
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What is the difference between business practices and public civil service administration? (Civil Service Acts of 1883)

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not the Catholic Church

35
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What do public agencies do and are they good for the public?

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provide public welfare and most of them are good

36
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What is the Department of Agriculture?

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cabinet-level agency that overlooks the American farming agency and administers programs to help American farmers and ensure food safety for consumers

37
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What do formal organizations have to deal with?

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formal organizations you have to deal with different personalities and cultures, bureaucratic cultures, different ways of doing things

38
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Who wanted a transparent government and did it work?

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Obama and no Edward Snowden got his way

39
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When does devolution occur?

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occurs when the federal government passes authority to the local and state governments

40
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Who’s the first president who tried to reinvent government?

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Jimmy Carter

41
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What are the drawbacks of devolution?

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things are different in different states, some are much more conservative

42
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What is Congressional oversight?

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means that you should investigate every party and not just the democrats

43
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what is the name of the party who brings the case? what is the name of the party that defends the case?

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plaintiff and defendant

44
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which type of law is when the government is always the plaintiff,

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criminal law

45
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what occurs when you have a criminal case and the district attorney is the plaintiff and the attorneys settle it before the court?

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a plea

46
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Ultimate federal court is the Supreme Court, who has more cases? state or federal courts?

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state courts

47
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What is due process of law (Miranda Rights)?

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fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen’s entitlement.

48
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Who sets the size of the U.S. Supreme Court?

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Congress

49
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How many of the nine justices that sit on the Supreme Court were reported by Republican presidents?

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five

50
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Third Ranking Official?

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Attorney General

51
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what is a goal backed be a sanction sponsored by the government?

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public policy

52
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what do public opinion polls say what Americans think abut welfare?

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think we spend too much money on it and that it’s unnecessary

53
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Is welfare given for free?

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no; social security is contributed by the baby boomers and it’s not welfare you need to pay into it

54
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What do welfare programs show about America?

A

that Americans are lazy and don’t want to work

55
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What was TANF called before?

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ADFC; Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

56
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What did Americans fear about Russia?

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fear the Soviets we’re going to win the Cold War

57
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What does mortgage crisis deal with?

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predatory loans

58
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Is work place medical insurance an example of the shadow welfare state?

A

YAASS

59
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What is the shadow welfare state?

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examines the lack of universal, single-payer health care coverage in the United States and the role organized labor has played in the formation of the current state of health insurance policy

60
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What does Federal Cash Assistance care for?

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children

61
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Who does better in society powerful groups with political power or poor people?

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people with political power

62
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Who do NADTA Republicans agree with?

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Clinton

63
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Why did the U.S. not have to worry what was going on the rest of the world in the 19th century?

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geographical isolation

64
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Which President established prevention?

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George W Bush

65
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Are all nation states members of the United Nations?

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NAHHH

66
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What does the Director of National Intelligence do?

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serve as principal advisor to the President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council about intelligence matters related to national security

67
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What does disputed arbitration contain?

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Third Neutral Party

68
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Who spends the most on military in the world?

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America; every dollar spent on military in the world and the U.S. spends one third of that amount

69
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How much money did the allies spend in Gulf War I?

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$11.1 billion (way more than America spent)

70
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What does Article 2 allow the Presidency to do?

A

the power to declare war

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