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| What is something that the Government must actively protect and guarantee? |
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| What pairs Missouri and Maine as slave and free states? |
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| What sets the northern boundary on slavery at 36 30? |
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| What brought more free states in? |
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| What bill tried to gut the Missouri Compromise and ban slavery in recently-aquired territories? |
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| What requires runaway slaves to be returned to Southern states? |
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| What is the people and states making up their own minds about having slavery? |
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| What case overturns the Missouri Compromise? |
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| What provided for popular sovereignty within territories? |
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| What case overturns the Missouri Compromise? |
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| Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) |
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| What is it called when you are against slavery? |
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| What freed slaves in the Confederacy only? |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| What amendment officially ended slavery? |
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| Which Amendment was ratified to provide due process and equal protection for all? |
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| What is the another word for Reduce? |
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| Which Amendment officially enfranchised blacks? |
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| What are the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments called? |
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| The Civil Rights Amendments |
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| What were laws that were designed to disenfranchise blacks? |
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| What is a word for the right to vote? |
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| What are primary elections governed by parties not states? |
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| What is paying a tax for the right to vote? |
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| What is passing a test to see if you could read or write? |
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| What is it called when you are eligable to vote because your grandfather could vote? |
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| What was President Rosevelts counterattack the effects of the Great Depression? |
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| What was a platform for equal rights for blacks? |
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| pro-civil rights platform in 1948 |
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| What was the name of the third party that ran when Southern Democrats split? |
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| What legislation tried to give blacks more rights? |
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| What officially ended segregation and gave the federal government the authority to enforce it? |
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| What ended the practice of denying blacks the right to vote and called for equal voting rights for everyone? |
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| What is the term for the practice? |
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| What is the term for by law? |
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| What is there still some of, even though it says that it is by law not allowed Post-1960s? |
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| What is it called when policies were sought to compensate for years of discrimination in employment and promotions? |
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| Which case outlawed racial quotas? |
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| Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke 1978 |
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| What is the right to vote in political elections for women? |
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| Who wanted the right to vote following the 15th Amendment? |
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| What Amendment allowed women the right to vote? |
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| What included provisions prohibiting discrimination based on sex? |
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| Who investigates sexual discrimination and racial discrimination? |
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| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) |
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| What was extended to required ballots to also be available in Spanish? |
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| What case protected privacy for the gay community by declaring state antisodomy laws unconstitutional? |
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| What is a intercourse that is anything other that the traditional sex? |
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| What are laws that are going against intercourse other than sex? |
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| What acts says that If you are in a state that allows gay marriage , then the state does not have to recognize the marriage? |
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| Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) |
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| What is it called when you can be gay in the military, but you cannot be out and be gay and still be in the military? |
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| What bars discrimination in employment, transportation, public accomodations, and telecommunications against people with physical and mental disabilities? |
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| 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act |
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| What is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of their major life activities? |
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| What case said that if a persons vision is correctable to 20/20 vision, than the Americans Disability Act doesn't apply, so airlines can refuse to hire? |
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| Sutton v. United Airlines (1999) |
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| What case said that Casey Martin can use a golf cart in the PGA tournaments because his atrophied leg constitutes as a disability? |
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| What is cruel or oppressive government or rule? |
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| Which Amendment gives us the right to have No established religion, no prohibition of free exercise of religion; freedom of speech and press; right of assembly and petetion for redress of grievances? |
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| Which Amendment gives us the right to bear arms? |
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| Which Amendment says that there will be no quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent? |
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| Which Amendment says that there will be no unreasonable searches or seizures? |
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| Which Amendment says that there will be no double jeopardy; we have the right against self-incrimination; due process of law; right to propert? |
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| What is the term for Can't force someone to confess? |
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| Which amendment are the trial rights? |
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| Which Amendment says that there should be no excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment? |
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| Which Amendment says that this list does not deny or disparge the existence of other rights? |
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| The Supreme Court says that the 14th Amendment extends the Bill of Rights to cover the states. What is this called? |
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| What is it called when legal proceeding must be fair? |
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| What is it called when someone from another state comes here and has to follow our laws? |
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| What is it called when an Amendment gradually extends to cover the states? |
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| What is the term for taking a claim or a dispute to a court of law? |
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| What are litigated heavily and developed in detail by the Court? |
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Major Rights
(it is called rights, by they are actually liberties) |
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| What are two liberties that has the word rights in them? (Sorry for the confusion) |
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| Major Rights, and Peripheral Rights |
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| What are the parameters that have not been fully developed yet? |
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| What is the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation? |
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| When is the freedom of speech not protected? |
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| When it is about to harm someone |
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| What liberty is a political expression? |
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| Which court case established the clear and present danger test? |
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| Schenk v. United States (1919) |
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| What is it called when there is any danger to the US., so they can strike it down? |
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| Clear and Present Danger Test |
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| Which case established the direct incitement test? |
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| What says that something can be stopped if they are trying to get people to do illegal things? |
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| What case said that flag burning is protected? |
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| Which Court case said that if something is obscene, it is therefore unprotected? |
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| What is having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters? |
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| What is another word for verbal? |
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| What is another word for written? |
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| What court case said that parody of public figures is protected, as it is clearly a parody and not a slander/libel? |
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| Hustler Magazine v. Falwell |
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| What were people called if they disagreed with slavery, but they lived in the South? |
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| What is physically separating the races? |
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| Intitutionalized Segregation |
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| What is it called when the people completely switch parties? (go from republican to democratic) |
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| What is it called when the government tries to prevent the media from publishing something? |
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| What is it called when there is a really sensative court case, and the government prevents all media coverage on the topic? |
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| What says that the National Government has to prove that they have the right to stop a publication? |
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| What is a term for believing that God created the world, but he does nothing else? |
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| What court case established the Lemon test for legislation concerning religion? |
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| What test says that they must have secular legislative purpose, must not have the primary effect of either advancing or inhibiting religion, and must not result in an "excessive government entanglement" with religion? |
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| What test asks the question whether or not the governments action is unfairly favoring a religious group over a secular group? |
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| What is a word for non-religious? |
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| What are two clauses in the Freedom of Religion? |
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free excercise clause
establishment clause |
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| What addresses a broader law that religious groups seek to gain exceptions from? |
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| What court case said that if a law is intended to apply generally, there is no violation? |
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| Employment Division v. Smith 1990 |
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| What act wanted to give groups exemptions for their religious beliefs? |
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| Religious Freedom Restoration Act |
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| What is a small army of citizens for an emergency? |
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| What are several Amendments considered to be? |
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| What Amendment protect people from unreasonable searches and seizures? |
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| What case says that illegally obtained evidence cannot be admitted in trial? |
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| What is it called when you can ask to exlude evidence from the trial because it was illegally obtained? |
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| What case says that suspects must be advised of their rights to remain silent, as confessions obtained are permissable at trial? |
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| Miranda v. Arizona in 1966 |
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| What is it called when suspects must be advised of their rights to remain silent, as confessions obtained are permissable at trial know as? |
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| What is it called when a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime in the same court? |
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| What is it called when jurors have pre-information? |
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| Which amendment allows a criminal the right to an attorney and a right to trial by impartial jury? |
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| What court case says that everyone has the right to counsel (attorney)? |
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| Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963 |
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| What is the person that defends the people called? |
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| What kind of jury implies that neither the pool of potential jurors be unrepresentative nor the selection process can be biased? |
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| What is it called once you register to vote, you are put on the pool to be on a jury? |
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| the pool of potential jurors |
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| What Amendment says that there will be no excessive bail, no cruel or unusual punishments, and no excessive fines? |
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| What case says that a dealth penalty is not inherently unconstitutional, but the manner in which it is applied is? (They put a de facto moratorium(temporary prohibition) on the death penalty) They re-examined their death penalty statues. |
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| Furman v. Georgia in 1972 |
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| What court case says that a death penalty when applied without discrimination, it is constitutional (African Americans sent almost all the time for death penalty, while whites, not so much) |
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| Where do we get the implied rights from? |
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| What is like a shadow of an object which means they imply the right to privacy? |
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| What case dealt with reproductive rights (can't use condoms, birth control, etc.) which is where the implied privacy rights has been most often discussed |
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| Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 |
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| What case legalized abortion to some extent? |
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| What is an organized effort by office holders, canidates, activists, and voters who persue their common interests by gaining and excercising power through the political process. |
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| What is another word for parties? |
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| What leads to a two-party system? |
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| Plurality electoral system |
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| What leads to mulitple parties? |
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| What is this an example of "If there is 100 people you get 50% votes for one party, then you get 50 seats. Everyone gets something"? |
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| A proportional party system |
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| What is this called Plurality electoral system leads to a two party system, while proportional systems lead to multiple parties? |
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| What are defined by the dominent issues and makeup of the party in the electorate, and have relative strength of the two parties? |
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| What is it called when groups switch party bases (going from Republican to Democratic), and there party also sometimes gets divided with national issues? |
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| Who appoint U.S. senators? |
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| What was the area from 1816-1824 called when the Democratics wer not running against anyone? |
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| What is the term for tending to cause disagreements between people? |
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| What was it called when Andrew Jackson won the popular and electoral vote (not with a full majority), but John Quincy Adams won the vote from the House and won the presidental election of 1824? |
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| What was the national coalition to help Jackson win the presidental election of 1828? |
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| What solidifies (makes stronger) national parties? |
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| The national party convention |
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| Where is it determined who will be running for presidency and vice presidency? |
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| The national party convention |
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| Who generally favored national developmaent? |
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| What party arose because of the opposition with Jackson? |
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| What is giving out government jobs to their supporters? |
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| Spoils System (aka. Patronage) |
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| What left the decision up to the citizens whether or not 2 states above the 36 30 line could become free or slave states because California became a free state? |
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| Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 |
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| What is a tax on imported goods? |
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| What is forcing Americans to buy American made products? |
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| What raises government income? |
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| What are local party organizations controlling jobs, nominations, and rewarding party loyalty and votes with jobs and candidacies? |
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| What is it called when reformers tried to push back against party machines? |
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| What is it called when the U.S. replaced patronage with a merit-based system? |
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| What is it called when voters get to choose who will be the candidates who will run for office? |
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| What is term for a group wanting a gold and silver currency, instead of just a gold currency where $1= however much gold? |
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| What was a result of the Republican Party dominating from 1896-1932? |
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| the "agrarian takeover" of the Democratic Party |
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| What was an expansion of social security, medicare, and medicade, and it didn't help the middle class anymore because it taxed them more? |
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| What are primary elections to choose presidential candidates? |
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| the National nominating conventions |
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| What democracizes the national nominating conventions? |
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| the Democratic National Convention |
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| What required either primary elections with pledged delegates or the Caucus system? |
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| the McGovern-Fraser Commission |
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| What is an important election where delegates and nominees are chosen? |
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| Who are people that get really high number of votes? (About 2 times as much as the average delegate) |
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| What is it called when the Republican Party and the Democratic Party is completely separated? |
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| What is the graph that shows who receive more votes? |
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| What is it called when an "independent" votes for only one party all the time? |
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| What is it called when citizens have a say in the policy process? |
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| What is it called when you have the power to do something, and you don't do what people want you to do? |
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| What are people who want to run for office called? |
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| Which Amendment extended franchise to women? |
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| Which Amendment said that DC residents can vote for the president? |
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| Which Amendment outlawed poll taxes? |
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| Which Amendment extending franchise to 18-21 year olds? |
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| What is the formula for the answer to: Is it rational to vote? |
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| What does V stand for in V=PB-C+D? |
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| Whether or not you will vote |
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| What does P stand for in V=PB-C+D? |
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| Probability your vote will decide the election (very tiny number) |
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| What does B stand for in V=PB-C+D? |
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| Benefit you recieve if your candidate wins |
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| What does C stand for in V=PB-C+D? |
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| Cost associated with deciding how to vote and actually casting the ballot |
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| What does D stand for in V=PB-C+D |
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| The feeling of necessity to perform civic duty, sense of satisfaction from voting |
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| What case said that states can have English-only driver's license tests? |
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| Alexander V. Sandoval (2001) |
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| What is a term for someone that is likely to get hurt? |
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| What case protected speech for individuals and corporations? |
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| Citizens United v. FEC (2010) |
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| What court case said that the national government must meet burden of proof to enforce prior restraint? |
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| New York Times v. United States in 1971 |
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| What is it called when party coalitions are not completely unified behind one nation? Ex: Republicans in the South look different than the Republicans in the United Kingom. |
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| Decentralized, fragmented |
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| What was the reformers pushing back against the party machines called? |
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| What are things that may influence the values of C and D? |
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| What are things that prevent people from voting? |
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| What is the Confidence and ability to understand and engage in politics? |
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| What is the confidence and ability to influence decisions of government? |
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| What allowed for voter registration during driver's license renewal, by mail, or in state welfare offices? |
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| Voting Eligible Population |
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| Since people don't spend a lot of time choosing how to vote, what do they normally use to make it easier for them to decide? |
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| What is voting based on previous performance by the party/candidate? |
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| What is voting based on how you feel the candidate/party will perform in office if elected? |
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| Who looks at only one issue and votes based on where the candidate stands on that one issue? |
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| What is it called when a Democratic person votes for a Democrat, and a Republican votes for a Repulican? |
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| What allowed for partial public funding for presidental campaigns and full reporting of all donations and sources? |
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| The Federal Election Campaign Act |
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| What allowed for control limits and expenditure limits? |
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| The Federal Election Campaign Act |
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| What is the term for how much money can a person donate? |
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| What is the term for how much money a candidate can spend? |
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| What case ruled expenditure limits unconstitutional? |
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| What is unlimited money refered to as? |
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| Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (2002) |
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| What is the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (2002) also refered to as? |
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| What are people who run your campaign called? |
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| What are ads that don't really cost anything called? (post online and hope to get media coverage) |
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| What derives their existence from the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC, and DC Circuit's decision in Speech Now.org v. FEC? |
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| What case allowed independent political expenditures by corporations, and unions cannot be prohibited? |
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| Citizens United v. FEC (2010) |
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| What is it called when groups are non-coordinated with the candidate? |
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| Independent political expenditures |
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| What case allowed the creation of "independent expenditure-only" groups that may accept unlimited contributions from individuals? |
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| SpeechNow.org v. FEC (2010) |
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| What groups are only tasked with raising/spending money independently with candidates? |
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| "independent expenditure-only" groups |
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