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| What is this an example of "I want to order pizza but my roommate wants japanese"? |
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| What is keeping what you earn and people are all equal? |
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| What is the process through which individuals and groups reach agreement on a course of common, or collective action even as they disagree on the intended goals of that action? |
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| What are the rules and procedures prescribing a process for reaching and enforcing collective agreements? |
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| What establishes its governing intitutions and the set of rules and procedures these institutions must follow? |
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| A constitution of a nation |
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| What is consisted of institutions and the legally prescribed process for making and enforcing collective agreement? |
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| What is the right of the office to make a particular decision? |
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| What refers to an individual officeholder's influence with other officeholders? |
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| What gets a lot worse when the size of a group increases? |
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| What occurs when members of a group decide that they are personally better off pursuing their own agenda while undermining the collective effort? |
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| What occurs when individuals within a group attempt to enjoy the collective benefits of membership without contributing? |
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| What is it when collective good will disappear unless members cooperate to preserve it? |
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| What is another word for preventing people from doing something? |
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| What is the time, effort, and resources required to make a collective decision? |
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| What is the difference between what any one party prefers and what the collective body requires? |
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| What is a consensus agreement? |
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| What is the authority to exert comprehensive control over those under one's dominion? |
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| What is the ability to reject a proposal from another office or institution? |
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| What is the authority to determine the set of alternatives on which the group decides? |
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| What is the process of allowing leaders to make decisions? |
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| What is it called when you have 50% + 1% in a vote? |
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| What is it called when you have anything above a 50% + 1% vote? |
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| What kind of democracy is it when the public delegates legislative power, executive power, and judicial power to a government? |
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| What is the original larger group refered to as? |
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| Who does the principal delegate their authority to? |
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| What is the difference between what the principals want and what their agents actually do? |
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| Delegation and majority rule can often be mixed to create what? |
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| A representative democracy |
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| What is it called when a representative democracy places constraints on representatives? |
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| What is it called when you have debt, they either throw you in prison, or you go to the new world? |
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| What is it called when you rule yourself? |
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| What was the war the France and England fought in? |
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| French and Indian War 1754-1763 |
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| What made people put a stamp on all printed material? |
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| What put a tax on imported tea? |
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| What was a outburst of the colonies to fight back against the tea act by throwing the tea overboard in the Harbor? |
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| What forced British troops live with the Colonists? |
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| Restraining and Coercive Acts of 1774 |
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| What pushed Independence on the National stage? |
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| What was signed because they wanted self governance because we needed to be independent and we need home rule? |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| What started the Revelutionary War? |
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| The Declaration of Independence |
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| What created a loose confederation of autonomous states? |
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| The Articles of Confederation |
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| What is it called when we have the same number of members in Congress no matter how large the state is? |
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| Equal Representation of states |
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| What was it called when farmers protested and they get arrested, but more and more farmers protest and it leads to a revised Articles of Confederation? |
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| What is it called when people govern themselves? |
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| What was proposed by the larger states in the Constitutional Convention? |
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| What was proposed by the smaller states in the Constitutional Convention? |
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| What was proposed in the Constitutional Convention that wanted a bicameral legislature and could make any laws and veto any state laws? |
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| What was proposed in the Constitutional Convention that wanted a Unicameral Legislature with equal representation? |
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| What cut the Virginia Plan and The New Jersey Plan in half? |
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| What are powers that are listed in the Constitution? |
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| What gives Congress ability to regulate interstate and international commerce? |
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| What are two or more states? |
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| What gives Congress the ability to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for exercising the enumerated powers? |
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| Necessary and proper clause |
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| What is another name for the Necessary and Proper Clause? |
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| What are elections held at state levels? |
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| What says that the Constitution and the Laws of the United states should be the supreme law of the land? |
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| What is it called when state offer better deals and compete with one another to get a certain thing that they want? |
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| What Article and Section forbids states from entering into treaties with foreign countries? |
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| What Article and Section is where the Constitution authorized Congress to regulate interstate commerce? |
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| What article was a protection of states? |
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| What Article and Section says that Northern states must return fugitive slaves? |
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| What is another word for confirmation? |
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| Which group was for Ratification? |
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| Which group was not for Ratification? |
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| What is a group of likeminded individuals with similar goals? |
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| Factions (Democratic and Republic) |
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| What prevents people from gathering together to discust their ideas? |
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| What outlined the theory behind constitutional design? |
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| What forced people to think alike? |
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| What is it called when there are two groups within a society and it prevents tyranny? |
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| What discusses the motivation behind the separation of powers? |
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| What is it called when lower-level governments derive authority from cental government? |
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| Unitary (Central over states) (most popular) |
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| What is it called when the central government derives authority from the lower-level governments? |
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| Confederation (state over central) |
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| What is the Hybrid of Unitary and Confederation? |
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| What Amendment reserved powers for states? |
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| What was it called when the state and national government was completely separate? |
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| What is it called when the National and State jointly supply service? |
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| What forced truckers to get their licenses from their own state? |
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| The commercial motor vehicle Safety Act |
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| What is it called when states try to outbid each other for a business? |
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| What was FDR's thing that was after the Great Depression? |
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| What did Lyndon B Johnson create when Democrats felt that property trascended state borders? |
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| What is a grant that is the exaxt amount given to states for specific purpose? |
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| What kind of grant is where the Federal government matches state spending in a policy area? |
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| What is it called when the National Government uses rules to require states to administer policies with limited or no financial assistance? |
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| What is it called when you apply certain rules and guidelines to a broad array of federally-subsidized state programs? |
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| cross-cutting requirements |
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| What says that states must adhere to the guidelines of one program to recieve funding for another unrelated program? |
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| What is it called when one state wants something and another state wants a different thing, so you they have to pick which one they want more? |
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| What is it called when authorities are shared with both chambers of congress? |
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| What are powers that only one branch of govt. does? |
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| What is drawing district lines to benefit one party or faction? |
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| What case said that districts must have roughly equal populations? |
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| What case said that districts can't be drawn to benefit or exclude a racial group? |
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| What case said that you can't be too biased against one party? |
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| Who are people who are already in congress? |
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| What are requests from constituents for information and help in dealing with govt agencies? |
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| What is it called when some members of congress gets elected only because the pres got elected? |
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| riding the presidents coattails |
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| What are parties refered to as? |
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| What is this example refered to as... "I gave money to NASA and they landed on mars. I then claim some of the credit." |
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| Individual credit- claiming for collective action |
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| What is the rule called when someone says "I second that notion..." |
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| What is it called when members want to run for reelection while there is still governing to do? |
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| What helps make a majority decision? |
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| What is an inclination to favor one group/ view/ opinion over alternatives? |
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| What is delaying a final vote on a bill? |
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| What is the longest serving senator refered to as? |
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| the President Pro Tempore |
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| What is it called when parties become increasingly ideologically cohesive and polarized, party members are more likely to delegate to leaders? In the absence of cohesion, leaders lose power. |
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| Conditional party Government |
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| What is it called when one party bans together? |
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| What is it called when two parties split furthur apart? |
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| Who help solve collective action problems Members of Congress face? |
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| What is it called when you can't deal with the issues at hand? |
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| What committee is a committee that exist from one Congress to the next? (Permanent) |
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| Committee and subcommittee chairs typically decide by the person who has served the longest. What is this called? |
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| What committee is a committee that often appear to deal with specific problems and then disappear? |
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| Select/Special Committees |
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| What committee is a committee that is drawn from both Chambers? |
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| What committee is a committee gathers important information and issues, but they do not report bills? |
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| What committee is a committee that handels particularly sensitive topics? |
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| Which committee resolves differences between the House and the Senate? |
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| What is it called when the subcommittee goes through a bill line by line? |
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| What is an example of log rolling? |
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| What is an issuing a summary of a bill's goals, provisions, and changes? |
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| What a rule that allows any germane amendments? |
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| What is having to do with the topic of the bill at hand? (Relevent to topic) |
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| What is a rule that only allows certain ammendments? |
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| What is a rule that doesn't allow any amendments? |
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| What committee is a committee that determines what the rules will be? |
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| What committee is a committee where rules are determined by a unanimous consent agreement? |
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| What is the procedure of ending a debate by taking a final vote? |
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| What is a meeting of the members of a legislative body who are members of a particular political party, to select candidates or decide policy? |
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| What is a vote that you can justify? |
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| Why is Congress known as an inefficient body? |
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| tends not to produce legislation |
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| What is the power to control appointments to office or the right to privileges? |
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| What is the president know as when he hands out federal government jobs? |
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| What is the president going public? |
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| What did the presidency become in the modern presidency? |
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| What is the President getting more involved in foreign policy? |
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| What is it called when we have a democratic president and a republican congress? |
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| Split government/ Split ticket |
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| What was it called when we got rid of the colors on the ballats and put all of the people running for office on one list? |
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| What is it called when the president is not sure that he can do something but he tries it anyways to see what Congress says? |
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| Testing the constitutional waters |
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| What act forced the president to inform Congrss withing 48 hours of committing troops in military action and forced the operatio to end within 60 days unless given an extension by congress? |
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| What was an attempt to regain some control over military affairs? |
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| Who can the president recieve by being Head of State? |
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| Ambassadors and other public ministers |
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| Whats another word for head of state? |
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| What are agreements between executives? |
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| What is an agreement for forein countries? |
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| What clause stated that the laws must be faithfully executed? |
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| What is giving the president some authority? |
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| principal agent relationship |
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| What is a way the president exerted control over executive branches? |
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| Executive orders/bureaucracies |
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| What states that States don't have to recognize other states exercises for gay marriage? |
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| What is it called when administration officials can't speak with Congress at all unless authorized by department heads? |
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| What is it called when all department communications to Congress that could affect future budgets must be pre-cleared by the presidents Office of Management and Budget to ensure that they are consistent with the presidents policy? |
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| What is it called when the president is the one making the decisions? |
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| What is it called when a president signs a bill into law , and the president impliments how they want to use this law? |
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| What is the idea that the president can choose which items of the bill he wants to veto? |
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| What is the amount of political power that the president has? |
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| Who is the advisor to the President |
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| What is it called when the president can act alone? |
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| What is it called when Congress made fun of bureaucracies for making stupid grants? |
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| The ministry of silly walks |
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| What are the people called when they are appointed by the president? |
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| What are bureaucratics that are experienced? |
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| What was it called when the president use to reward people with jobs because they were loyal to them? |
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| What is it called when you are responsible for someone and they are responsible for you? |
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| What are people experinced in their areas called? |
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| What is a term for duplicate or redundancy? |
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| What is hiring someone because the are more qualified for the job than another? |
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| What act put 10 percent of government jobs on the merit system and it could be extended by executive order? |
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| What is it called when people adopt the ideas of the agencies as their own? |
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| Bureaucratic/agency culture |
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| What are the unions composed of federal employees? |
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| What is a form of organization in the bureaucracies? |
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| What does each cabinet department have within itself? |
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| Which agency reports directly to the president? |
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| Independent Executive Agencies |
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| Which agency is independent of the presidency? |
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| Independent Regulatory Commisions |
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| Which agency is created by Congress to deliver services that a private corporation would otherwise deliver? |
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| Independent Government Corporations |
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| Which agency delegates implementation to lower-level governments or contracting nonprofit and/or private corporations? |
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| Indirect Administrations (not a bureaucratic agency) |
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| What is taking a bill and turning it into regulation? |
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| What are laws that go out of affect? They expire and they cannot continue to enforce the law. |
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| What is it called when you say how the law is going? |
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| What are small provisions of the law? |
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What forms when some agencies become beholden to interest groups? |
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The Iron Triangle |
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What forms sometimes during the iron triangle? |
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| What are agencies with a very specific client? |
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| What are the kinds of cases that courts hear? |
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| What are original cases that start at the highest court? |
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| What is going against your country? |
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| What was an injunction that allows the court to force an official to do something? |
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| What is it called when federal judiciary can judge whether or not a state/ law/ policy is constitutional? |
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| What was it called when the US cut funding by 2.7% across the board? |
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| What is it called when th Supreme Court exercise judicial review over state laws? |
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| What is it called when the president appoints judges right before he has to leave office? |
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| Which court case asked to issue a writ of mandamus under a petition because they would turn in his commision? |
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| Which case said that Congress can charter a national bank and a state cannot tax a federal entity? |
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| Which case established an expansive view of the necessary and proper clause? |
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| Which case sort of resolved the fact that the national government had more authority than state because the Supreme Court lost some credibility? |
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| Which case limited bakers to 10 hour days or 60 hour weeks? |
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| What clause said that noone shall be denied of rights and abilities without due process? |
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| What did FDR implement to counteract the effects of the Great Depression from the amount of conservatives on the Supreme Courts? |
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| What is adding another person for every member that is over 70? |
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| What is not being receptive? |
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| Not ready to do something |
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| What was the case that had someone arrested for sitting in a railroad coach that was reserved for whites? |
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| What case said that separate but equal has no place in public schools? |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| What is it called when the Supreme Court overturns or can overturn themself on a law? |
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| What is it called when the Supreme Court had cases appealed to them? |
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| What was it called when a case was appealed to the Supreme Court, and they had to hear it? |
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| What is it called when the Supreme Court gets to choose which cases they hear? |
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| What is filed by a petitioner against a respondent? |
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| What is it called when only four of the nine Supreme Court justices agree to grant the Writ if certuorari so that the case goes before the court? |
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| What is another term for the Writ if certuorari? |
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| What are briefs filed by interest groups, businesses, government agencies, etc? |
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| What is a term for "friend of the court"? |
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| Who represents the federal government and is the Chief autorny? |
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| What are the guidelines for lower level courts to follow? |
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| What says how the lower courts should make decisions? |
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| What directs courts to follow earlier precedents? |
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| What is an earlier event or action regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances? |
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| What is it called when you determine who can bring a case to court? |
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| What says which party should win? |
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| What goes beyond what the constitution says? |
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| What says to interpret the law as written? |
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| What explains rationale for decisions in such a way as to create doctrine? |
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| What opinion takes force of law? |
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| What opinion are the people of the minority who disagree with the courts decisions? |
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| What opinion says that the person agrees with the law, but not the rationale? |
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| What is a set of reasons or a logical basis for a course of action or a particular belief? |
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| What is how to choose judges? |
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| What is it calld when a president goes to a member of his party from the state and asks him for a list of names for who should take that position, and if there is nobody, then he will nominate them? |
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| What is it called when justices vote their preferences? |
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| What is it called when justices prefer to vote their preferences, but are constrained by many forces on their ideas? |
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| What is something that the Government must actively protect and guarantee? |
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| What is something the government must not interfere with? |
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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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| What are the opinions held by private persons which governments find it prudent to heed? |
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| What is the best way to take a polling? |
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| What gives everyone in the population a chance to be selected? |
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| What is a leading question? |
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| What is having a tv show and talking about a certain topic and then taking a vote and getting incorrect results? |
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| Biased/self-selecting sample |
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| What is an organized and consistent manner of thinking, feeling, and reacting with regard to people, groups, social issues, or more generally, any event in one's environment? |
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| What is an elaborately organized sets of political attitudes? |
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Ideology
(highly organized) |
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| What do attitudes and ideology tend to reflect? |
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| Who are ideologically extreme? |
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| What is the political attitude that shapes opinions and organizes other attitudes most consitently is a person's attitude toward the politcial party? |
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partisanship
(The way you feel about the two parties structures how you will view other things) |
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| What is the process of aquiring political attitudes and opinions (molding your beliefs)? |
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| What is it called when someone just doesn't care about something? |
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| What is choosing how to present a topic? |
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| What is choosing how a topic effects something? |
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| What is another word for group? |
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| What is considered to be a business that a lot of people don't see as a business? |
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| What is it called when newspapers only cost a penny? |
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| What is it called when newpapers dominated from 1883-1925? |
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| What is it called when there was sensational stories and screaming headlines in newspapers? |
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| What started the Spanish American War? |
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Yellow Journalism
(dubious claim that said that the USS Maine was sunk by Spanish mine) |
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| What is it called when the president could talk on the radio and the people could listen to him speak? |
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| What is an example of news spoken on the radio? |
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| What was it called when the television news had 3 major dominating national stations? |
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| The Era of broadcast news |
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| What required television stations to provide for equal access to candidates for office? |
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| Equal time provisions (gave the other party the chance to have the same amount of time to talk) |
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| What required local stations to devote a certain amount of time to public affairs (political) programming, and that such programming to be fair and balanced? |
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| Who prohibits cross-ownership of newspapers and local television stations from covering the same area? |
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| The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) |
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| What offered hundreds of viewing options to television viewers? |
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| Cable/Satellitle Television |
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| What is a blend of information and news? |
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| What is the amount of information a particular technology can economically provide its audience? |
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| What is it called when politicians give the media a story and they want something in return? |
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| Since we are on a 24 news cycle, we have a thirst for information. What is this refereed to as? |
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| What is the term the division of labor for news agencies? |
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| What is it called when reporters report on the same topic because they sit down in a room and get the most important information of the day? |
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| What is a type of journalism that doesn't have any substance to it? |
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| television-based journalism |
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