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POLS 101 Exam 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The use of violence or force with the intention of coercing a society or government to take a specific action. | Terrorism |
| The constitutional requirement that the U.S. government must follow proper legal procedures before a person can be punished for an offense. | Procedural due process |
| The constitutional rights of a person accused of committing a crime. | Defendants' rights |
| Something that is judged as lewd or indecent. | Obscenity |
| The right of the accused not to be held indefinitely by the police without being formally accused of a crime; also his right to obtain a writ, or written order, that requires the police to either release or formally charge him. | Habeas corpus |
| A right to speak freely-unless government officials can show that national security is directly imperiled by the speech. | Free speech |
| Published material that falsely damages a person's reputation. | Libel |
| Spoken words that falsely damage a person's reputation. | Slander |
| The press's freedom to print its views, without governmental interference in advance of printing. | Freedom of the press |
| A test applied to laws that treat people unequally but have a reasonable basis for doing so. | Reasonable-basis test |
| A test applied to laws that treat people unequally based on ethnicity or race. | Strict-scrutiny test |
| A test applied to laws that treat people unequally based on gender. | Intermediate-scrutiny test |
| A loosely organized group of people who make efforts to achieve social or political change. | Social movement |
| The fight for the right to vote. | Suffrage |
| An act that gave African Americans and other minorities equal access to public facilities and jobs. | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| The practice of separating one group of people from another based on race, ethnicity, or class. | Segregation |
| The amendment to the Constitution that grants the right to vote to Americans, regardless of gender. | Nineteenth Amendment |
| Openly expressed political opinions, held by the people. | Public opinion |
| Information gathered from a relatively small portion of the population to predict the opinions of an entire population. | Public opinion poll |
| A political ideology that argues that the most important goal of politics is to solve the country's problems and help people. | Liberal |
| A political ideology that argues that the most important goal of politics is to create stable communities based on a hierarchy of power in which both leaders and followers have specific responsibilities. | Conservative |
| The process of gathering political facts, assumptions, and attitudes to form your own political opinions. | Political socialization |
| The press's freedom to print its views without government interference. | Freedom of the press |
| The media's responsibility to alert the public of important information as soon as possible after the event occurs or the information is discovered. | Singular role |
| The media's responsibility to provide a pathway for political leaders to communicate with the public. | Common-carrier role |
| The media's responsibility to alert the American public to deceitful, careless, incompetent, or corrupt officials. | Watchdog role |
| The media's responsibility to act as a representative of the people. | Public-representative role |
| The act of formally indicating a desired choice of a political leader or policy. | Vote |
| The number of registered voters who participate in an election. | Voter turnout |
| The group of people who have the right to vote. | Electorate |
| The group of electors who determine which presidential candidate receives a state's electoral votes. | Electoral college |
| The act of placing citizens on a list to make them eligible to vote. | Voter registration |
| The act of voting for the candidate whose positions the voter agrees with. | Prospective voting |
| The act of voting for the incumbent candidate because his past actions are judged to be successful. | Retrospective voting |
| The person who currently holds a particular office. | Incumbent |
| A political system in which two political parties compete for control of the government. | Two-party system |
| An organization of people with similar political goals who work together to achieve political power. | Political party |
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