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PoliSci Final
Study for the Barksdale final!!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| House of Representatives (Legislative) | -435 representatives -population+6 unvoting territories -speaker of the house is Paul Ryan, 3rd in line for presidence -Requirements: 25+, US citizen for 7+ years, resident of represented state |
| Who said "Politics ain't beanbag?" | Finley Peter Dunne |
| Executive Branch | -Impliment/enforce laws -appoint heads of federal agencies -can veto, but congress can override with 2/3 vote of both houses -president is head of military |
| Who started the parties? | Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton |
| Bipartisanship | When the parties work together |
| How long do Supreme Court justices serve? | For life, congress can't alter their pay |
| CNN (Party and head) | More or less unbiased, Jeff Zucker |
| Order of Primary vote (NESW) | 1. Iowa 2. New Hampshire 3. South Dakota 4. Nevada |
| First Democratic president | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| First Republican president | Abraham Lincoln |
| MSNBC (Party and head) | Democratic, Rachel Maddow |
| FOX news (Party and head) | Republican, Roger Ails |
| Term length--house, president, senate, president | 2-4-6-8 |
| Governor of Utah | Governor Herbert |
| Dogma | Everyone must follow THIS |
| Who expanded the electorate to all white men? | Andrew Jackson |
| Presidential requirements | 35+, natural born citizen, lived in US for 14+ years |
| Who said "It's a wicked and silly game" in relation to politics? | John Adams |
| Senate (Legislative) | -100 senators -17th amendment -Must be 30+, US citizen for 9+ years, resident of represented state -Vice president is over the senate -1/3 reelected every two years (all replaced by 6 years) -Can enact/reject presidential appointments |
| Committees | -17 senate, 70 subcommittees -23 HOR, 104 subcommittees -Each with specific policy area |
| Judicial branch | Elected by senate 9 members since 1869 No trials, just interpret the law 4,5,6 amendments protect the accused appellant=litigant who files an appeal |
| Elizabeth Warren | Progressive liberal democrat, Massachusetts |
| Elected leaders represent... | Constituents (we the people) Doners (people who give money... favors?) Lobbyists (want to change laws) Their own agenda |
| Liberal VS Conservative | Left VS Right |
| The Virginia plan | For 'per population' representation, bigger states |
| The New Jersey plan | For 'per state' representation, smaller states |
| The Connecticut compromise (Great compromise) | Equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House of Representatives |
| Define framers | The ones who wrote the Constitution |
| Who can declare war? | Congress |
| How many in the HOR does one party need for complete dominance? | 218/435 |
| Preamble (6 points) | -Establish justice -Insure domestic tranquility -Provide for common defense -Promote the general welfare -Secure blessings of liberty -Form a more perfect union |
| 7 Articles of the Constitution | 1-Legeslative 2-Executive 3-Judicial 4-Federalism 5-Amendments 6-Supremacy Clause 7-Ratification |
| Utah gets ?? electorate votes | 6 electorate votes |
| Super PACs | Political action committees |
| Who usually wins in states with big populations? | Democrats usually win in what kind of states? |
| Article 1 Section 8 | Enumerate/limit congressional powers |
| Elastic clause | Lets the government pass whatever laws they need to uphold the list of powers. |
| Commerce clause | Congress has the right to regulate, discourage, suppress, or even exterminate commerce |
| Antiquities act of 1906 | Establishes that archaeological sites on public lands are important public resources. |
| What is PPP? | Public Party Polling |
| What are the 5 officially declared wars? | War of 1812, Mexican-American war, Spanish-American war, WW1, WW2 |
| What is the War Powers act? | President must tell congress about sending troops out within 48 hours; Congress must then be the one to declare war |
| Who is John Kerry? | 68th US Secretary of State |
| Timeline of Chemical Warfare laws | 1919-Treaty of Versailles--banned chemical warfare 1925-Geneva protocal--prohibition of gases/biological chemicals 1997-Chemical weapons convention |
| How to make a law | Committee=>Senate/HOR=>Conference committee=>Senate/HOR=>President |
| What is civil disobedience? | Nonviolent protest--break all the right laws. Written by Henry David Thoreau |
| Who came up with separation of church and state?? | Thomas Jefferson |
| What is ACA? | Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) |
| When does the true election begin? | Labor Day |
| Ranking of courts | Local-district-regional-Supreme |
| What is litigation? | The process of taking legal action |
| What are several appointments... | Cabinet (head of a department) Ambassadors (ministers) Federal judges |
| What are recess appointments? | The appointment by the President of a federal official while the Senate is in recess. |
| Who started cabinets? | George Washington |
| Presidential powers: | Commander in chief Can call up militia Can grant reprieves Can grant pardons |
| Presidents get paid | $400,000 annually |
| State of the Union | Annual presidential report to Congress |
| What is the bully pulpit? | a public office or position of authority that provides its occupant with an outstanding opportunity to speak out on any issue. |
| Addresses: biggest deal to least big deal | 1. State of the Union 2. Address to the Nation 3. Rose Garden address 4. Press Conference Q&A 5. Speech from the White house 6. Weekly addresses 7. White house press release 8. Tweet of post on whitehouse.gov |
| Who is Mitch McConnel | Senior US Senator (from Kentucky) |
| What is the procedural vote/vote of cloture? | Vote to end debate and VOTE Takes 60+ senators |
| What is an isolationist? | One with no entangling alliances (among countries) |
| What was the first judicial case? | West v Barnes |
| What is a bicameral legislature? | A 2-house legislature |
| Which were killed by the senate? | Kyoto treaty (from Al Gore) and the UN treaty |
| What is PCAST? | Obama--president's council of advisers on science and technology |
| What is NATO and when? | 1949, North Atlantic Treaty Organization=intergovernmental military alliance |
| What is NAFTA and when? | 1994, North American Free Trade Agreement=treaty by United States, Canada, and Mexico |
| What is Treaty of Paris 1763? | Ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France |
| What is Treaty of Paris 1783? | Ended Revolutionary War |
| What is Jay's treaty and when? | 1794-1795, settle unresolved issues from American independence |
| What is Pickney's treaty and when? | 1795, established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain |
| When was the Louisiana Purchase? | 1803 |
| What is Treaty of Ghent and when? | 1814, ended the War of 1812 |
| What is Adams-Onis treaty and when? | 1819, Florida purchase |
| What is the Oregon treaty and when? | 1846, treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States |
| What is the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and when? | 1848, ended war with mexico and gave US Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming |
| What is Treaty of Paris 1898? | Spain relinquishing Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the US |
| What is the Potsdam treaty and when? | 1945, Between US, Russia and Britain about military occupation and reconstruction of Germany |
| What is the general agreement on tariffs and trade (GATT) and when? | 1947, trade agreement |
| Who did SALT I, when, and what is it? | Nixon, 1972, restrict nuclear weapons |
| Who did SALT II, when, and what is it? | Carter, 1979, restrict nuclear weapons |
| Who did START I, when, and what is it? | Bush/Clinton, 1994, Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
| Who did START II, when, and what is it? | Obama, 2010, Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
| When was the Iranian inspection treaty? | 2015 |
| What is FEMA? | Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| ORIGINAL Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Treasury, and Attorney general (inner cabinet) | Secretary of State=Thomas Jefferson Secretary of Treasury=Alexander Hamilton Secretary of War=Henry Knox Attorney General=Edmund Randolph. |
| CURRENT Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Treasury, and Attorney general (inner cabinet) | Secretary of State=John Kerry Secretary of Treasury=Jack Lew Secretary of War=Ashton Carter Attorney General=Loretta E. Lynch |
| Who has the power of the purse? | House of Representatives |
| Who approves stuff? | The senate |
| Amendment 1-First one :) | Free Speech, press, religion, and assembly |
| Amendment 2- Two bear arms | Right to bear arms |
| Amendment 3- Three's a crowd | No quartering of troops in homes |
| Amendment 4- Four doors on a car (think the police want to search your car) | No unreasonable searches/seizures |
| Amendment 5 (I plead the 5th) | A person may not be tried twice for the same crime and does not have to testify against themself |
| Amendment 6- Speedy Six | Right to speedy and public trial and right to lawyer and counsel |
| Amendment 7- You're lucky (777) to get a trial | Right to trial by jury in civil cases |
| Amendment 8- Sideways handcuffs | No excessive bail, fines, cruel/unusual punishment |
| Amendment 9- Makes more rights mine | Rights not enumerated retained by people |
| Amendment 10- Federal laws are what are writTEN | Powers not delegated to Congress or prohibited to states belong to states or people |
| Amendment - 1 on 1 | No federal cases between state, citizen of other state |
| Amendment 12- 1 ballot, 2nd ballot | The electoral college will vote seperately for president and VP rather than together in one ballot |
| Amendment 13- You’re unlucky if you’re still a slave… :/ | Slavery is outlawed |
| Amendment 14-Citizenize | Citizenship to former slaves |
| Amendment 15- Vote | Right to vote can't be denied by race |
| Amendment 16- Turn 16= job | Congress can levy individual income taxes |
| Amendment 17- senators seventeen | Direct election of senators |
| Amendment 18- nope 21 | Prohibition of liquors (1917) |
| Amendment 19- woman can go on missions… and vote!! | Right to vote for women (1919) |
| Amendment 20- January 20th | Dates for inauguration, Congress's session |
| Amendment 21- let's drink | Repeal of prohibition (1933) |
| Amendment 22- 2 terms | Presidential term limits |
| Amendment 23- twenty three rhymes with DC | D.C. residents' vote for president |
| Amendment 24- no poll tax at the door | Ban on poll taxes |
| Amendment 25- if he ain't alive | Appointment of new vice president, presidential incompetence |
| Amendment 26- 2 + 6= 8 | Right to vote for 18-year olds (1971) |
| Amendment 27- the last one .. | Reps cannot set their own pay |
| Who is Sandra Day O'Connor? | First woman Justice, appointed by Reagan |
| How many courts (each type) are there? | 94 district, 12 circuit, 1 Supreme |
| Define gerrymandering | Manipulating boundaries to favor a party or class |
| Summarize Hammurabi's code? | Code by Hammurabi, nearly 300 written laws |
| What is the Achaemenid Empire? | First Persian empire, founded by Cyrus the Great, included Greco-Persian wars |
| What is Zoroastrianism? | One of the world's oldest religions, mostly in india, must be born in |
| Who was Alexander the Great? | Tutored by Aristotle, succeeded father Phillip II at age 20, expanded hugely |
| Who was Socrates? | Writer, taught Plato, ultraugly, ultragenius, 3 questions The unexamined life is not worth living for a human!! |
| Plato's Republic | Socratic dialogue. Justice=your advantage to be just and disadvantage to be unjust |
| What is the allegory of the cave? | Plato--do we see the real truth? Summaize allegory |
| What is a lame duck? | an official (especially the president) in the final period of office, after the election of a successor. |
| Define xenophobia | Fear of that which seems different or strange |
| Who was Aristotle? | Student of Plato, teacher of Alex the Great, lotsa logic |
| Constantine | Tyrant |
| Thomas Aquinas | Religious, embraced aristotle |
| Magna Carta | To stop King John from sticking people in jail without rightful cause |
| Common law vs Civil law | common law countries, case law — in the form of published judicial opinions — is of primary importance, whereas in civil law systems, codified statutes predominate. |
| The Prince | By Machiavelli, fear is better than faith |
| Thomas Hobbes | Right of the individual |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Theory of natural human, influenced the Enlightenment |
| Montesquieu | Separation of powers |
| John Locke | Very influential to enlightenment |
| Utah senators | Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee |
| McCollum v. Board Reynolds v. United States Pledge of Allegiance Pleasant Grove v. Summum (Read intro then jump down to First Amendment section) Jehovah's Witness Cases (Read US first, then skip to England and other Countries) | Know these cases 1st amendment |
| United States v. Miller District of Columbia v. Heller McDonald v. Chicago | Know these cases 2nd amendment |
| 11th - 14th Fitzpatrick v.Bitzer (1976) Marbury v. Madison (1803) Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857) Plessy v. Ferguson Brown v. Board of Education Roe v. Wade (1973) | Know these cases other importants |
| Tyrants | Solon--athens democracy Pisistratus-- olive oil/wine trade Hippias--insane Cleisthenes--took Hippias out with a coup detat |
| Define coup de tat | Sudden decisive act in politics |
| Define despotism | tight group of official or one person |
| Plato started.... | The Academy |
| What is truth? | Freedom |
| Habeus Corpus | Bring forth the body; no bugging people unless it's by the jury/law of the land |
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