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| What state did not attend the Philadelphia Convention? |
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| What type of grants in aid is the most specific and controlling? |
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| What is the Contract with America? |
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| 1994 Republican campaign pledge to return power back to the states. |
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| Rewarding loyalty rather than merit |
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| What is the intergovernmental lobby? |
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| Lobby of state and local interest groups representing a state or local government body that lobby for state/local issues. |
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| What are the 6 senate folkways? |
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| Reciprocity, Apprenticeship, specialization, courtesy, legislative work, institutional patriotism (unwritten rules of behavior to keep order in the Senate) |
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| What VP changed the role of VP into a more involved VP? |
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| Walter Mondale- first VP to have an office in West Wing and attend cabinet meetings regularly |
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| Who created the model of the modern Presidency? |
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| FDR (active and involved/problem solving. Think New Deal/100 days standard ) |
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| What are concurrent powers? |
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| Shared powers like taxing, making laws, prisons, courts, etc. |
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| What are reserved powers? |
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| Powers not mentioned in the Constitution therefore left to the states like education, elections |
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| What 3 groups make up the iron triangle? |
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| Interest group, agency, committee in Congress |
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| What agency employs 1/3 of all federal employees? |
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| Max Weber's characteristics of the bureaucracy? |
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Hierarchical (from top to bottom)
specialized
impersonal
rules oriented and
output/goals oriented |
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| pathologies of the bureaucracy |
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| red tape, waste, growth, turf wars and duplication (problems of the bureaucracy) |
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| Executive Privilege? What is it? Was Nixon able to invoke it? |
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| Ability of Presidents to keep some things from public in the name of security. No he was not. had to turn over the tapes. |
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| What happens to public opinion the longer a president is in office? |
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| What model of Congressional decision making says to follow the voters when you vote? the party? |
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| delegate (voters) partisan (party) |
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| Does the president still have the line item veto? |
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| What do presidential candidates look for in a running mate? |
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| Balance the ticket.. make up for your weaknesses. |
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| An unwritten custom that the President talks to Senators about his nominees before putting them formally up for consideration |
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| What is legislative logrolling? |
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| Back scratching. Vote trading. |
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| What happened to the make up of Congress in 1992? |
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| More diverse. Esp. women after Anita Hill- clarence Thomas |
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| Who impeaches? Who is jury? |
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| House charges, Senate jury |
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| Talk a bill to death. Stop a fillibuster with 60 votes (3/5) |
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| A test given to see how liberal/conservative you are. Often given of judicial nominees |
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| What chief justice saved the Supreme Court turned around it's image? |
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| Father of our Constitution? |
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| used to work out differences on a bill version from House/Senate |
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| Over contracts and grant formulas. Do we base them on growth (south) or decay and tax base loss (North) |
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| How does the national govt. try to control the states? |
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| Grants, Mandates, Crossover sanctions |
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| Full Faith and Credit Clause |
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| My legal documents carry over from state to state |
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| opened up the defintion of interstate commerce |
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| established judicial review |
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| national supremacy and implied powers (bank) |
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| Poor person's right to an atty |
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| Must be told of your rights when arrested |
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| faculty may not lead prayer in school |
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| Separate but equal not equal must integrate schools |
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| Illegally collected evidence must be thrown out |
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| Who would be antiwelfare, pro prayer in school and pro life? (liberal or conservative?) |
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| Authors of the Federalist papers? |
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| Jaded generation that lists divorce, drug usage as largest impacts on generation |
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| Only amendment to use conventions of the people to get passed (instead of state legislatures)? |
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| A judge that tries to stick to the intent of the framers or exact wording of the laws |
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| Judicial Restraint.. Activists put their personal views/stretch the law |
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| What is happening to the US population/ |
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| Getting older, more diverse, gender roles more =, gap between rich/poor widening. |
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| Dominant values of a society and attitudes toward government |
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| Political Culture: In us we believe in equality, liberty, political mistrust, etc. |
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| Very global thinking, racially diverse generation |
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| How hard is it to make an amendment? |
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| Very hard. Out of 10,000 ideas only 33 have made it to step 2 (3/4 vote) and only 27 ideas have gotten through step 2. |
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| Takes 4 judges to pull up a case for consideration and grant a writ of certiorari (ct. order to send up all lower records on a case) |
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| Let the precedent stand. Don't overturn past decision. |
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| friend of the court brief filed by a 3rd party |
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| Who tends to vote Republican? |
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| white males, wealthy, educated, religious, South (now) and Interior West (UT, ID, WY) |
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| Disability of president and filling an empty VP spot |
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| Who draws the House boundaries every 10 years with the census? |
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| Normally state legislatures |
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| let's us elect our Senators (no more state legislature appt) |
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| limits president to 2 terms |
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| Who said men form govts. to preserve life, liberty and property? Locke or Hobbes Who was the pessimist about man's nature? Locke or Hobbes? |
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John Locke - enlightenment thinker
Hobbes - pessimist Man's natural state is war. |
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| During an arrest what can be searched/seized? |
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| Things on warrant, things in plain view, things on a person (pat down) if they have reasonable suspicion. Not things in other rooms or not on warrant. That will be excluded. |
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| Free speech tests? limits? |
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| Clear and present danger, obscenity (community standards), slander libel if maliciously done, commercial speech must be truthful, sedition during crisis times for security, bad tendencies, fighting words, etc. |
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| What demographic changes occurred in last century? |
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| population growth, aging of America, equalized gender roles, much more diversity esp from new non European countries. |
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| Push poll v. exit poll v. tracking poll |
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Push poll tries to get you to not support your candidate with bad info.
Tracking poll asks the same question over a period of time to see if opinion changes
Exit poll asks you how you voted after you leave voting booth. |
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| Father of modern polling? |
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| Is America's voter turnout high or low? |
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| What party are 90+% of African American's loyal to? |
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| Republicans were the federalists or antifederalists originally? |
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| The republican party started as a pro or anti slavery party? |
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| Most critical period of socialization? |
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| Process by which over time you obtain your political values? |
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| What is the general margin of error on a poll? |
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| Stratified or nonstratified polls are scientific? |
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| Stratified.. they actually make sure that various subgroups are questioned. |
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| Who is most likely to vote? |
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| Whites, educated, wealthy, church goers |
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| Fundraising portion of an interest group. |
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| PETA is what type of interest group? |
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| Red tape, waste, growth, conflict/turf wars and duplication are _______ of the bureaucracy. |
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| What party tends to raise more money? |
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| What amendment is cited for reserved powers? |
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| Bakke v. University of CA |
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| quotas illegal. Affirmative action used to break a tie okay but setting asides spots is not. |
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| 1994 campaign pledge by republicans was called ______ What did it do? |
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| Contract with America. REturned power back to people and states. Cleaned up govt. and wanted people to do more for themselves. |
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| Difference in how men and women vote on issues. |
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| Literary digest problems? |
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| Polled too early from an elite source (phone book and vehicle registrations in 1916) it mailed cards they had to return in the summer for a November election. |
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| What is happening to party today? |
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| Been replaced. Pollsters, media consultants more important. More ticket splitting and issue voting today. |
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| Theories on why we form interest groups? |
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Selective Benefits (we get something from joining- status/discount)
Tocqueville- America is just a nation of joiners.
Salisbury's theory- people join when resources are scarce.
Disturbance- when one group forms on one side of an issue, another group forms on the other to counter other group. |
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| What can determine party ID? |
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| Family is #1, race, gender, region, religion, etc. can all have a role. |
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| Which party would be prolife and NOT want gun control or welfare? |
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| Early attempts to "sway public opinion"? |
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| Sons of liberty, committees of correspondence, Common Sense, Declaration of Ind. federalist and antifed essays. |
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| What characteristics can give Interest groups more influence? |
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| Money (fundraising), technical expertise and knowledge, more widespread their membership or the issue they support is can help increase clout. |
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