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Politics/american go
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ch 3 federalism | |
| Mccaullough vs ferguson - | |
| Everson vs board of education | |
| Abortion webster vs reproductive health services (1989) | |
| Main ideas of court cases | |
| Maryland - to have a national bank | |
| Griswold vs Connecticut - right to privacy | |
| Roe vs wade - abortion, limiting state laws agains abortion | |
| Bowers vs hardwick - laws against homosexuals | |
| Planned parenthood vs | |
| Plessy vs ferguson - separate but equal | |
| Dred scott vs stanford - slaves can’t become citizens | |
| EXAM 2 | |
| Chapter 3 Federalism | |
| Block Grant - money to state and local governments to help social welfare programs | |
| Enumerated Powers - powers to the federal gov given by the constitution | |
| Nullification- gives individual states the right to void any law they see as unacceptable | |
| Categorical Grant - more restrictive version of block grants | |
| Federal System - central government with specific powers over the whole union | |
| Reserved Powers - power that a constitution reserves exclusively to the jurisdiction of a particular political authority. | |
| Commerce Clause - gives Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes | |
| Implied Powers - powers not stated in the constitution that the government has | |
| Supremacy Clause - all laws and treaties are supreme law of the land | |
| Confederal System - little central control | |
| “Necessary and Proper” Clause - enlargement of the powers granted to congress | |
| Unfunded Mandate - make state or local gov do things without being provided the money to do it | |
| Devolution - transference of rights to someone | |
| “Full Faith and Credit” Clause - judicial decisions rendered by the courts in one state are recognized and honored in every other state | |
| Unitary System- central gov that delegates authority | |
| Dual Federalism - holds that the Union and the state are equal, Union government only has the powers expressly granted to it, while the states retain all other powers | |
| New Federalism - devolution- transfer of certain powers from the federal gov to the states | |
| Chapter 6 Civil Liberties | |
| Civil Liberties - freedoms that cant be infringed upon by government | |
| Incorporation Doctrine - made amendments apply to the states and not just government, Interpretation of the Constitution that holds that the Due Process Clause of the 14th amendment requires that state and local governments also guarantee those rights | |
| Slander - untrue spoken statements that defame the character of a person | |
| Clear and Present Danger Test - dealing with freedom of speech within the first amendment to determine whether or not a statement is protected under the amendmen | |
| Kentucky Resolutions - protest to the alien and sedition acts, written by thomas jefferson | |
| Symbolic Speech - expressing an idea without words | |
| Direct Incitement Test - test articulated by the supreme court that holds the advocacy of illegal action is protected by the 1st amendment unless iminant lawless action is intended and likely to occur | |
| Lemon Test - to check if a law has the effect of establishing a religion | |
| Unprotected Speech - you cant just say whatever | |
| Establishment Clause - the first clause in the 1st amendment which prohibits the us gov from interfering with the citizen’s right to practice their own religion | |
| Libel- false written statements tending to call someone’s reputation into disripute | |
| Virginia Resolutions - just like the kentucky resolution | |
| Free Exercise Clause - congress cant make a law prohibiting free exercise of religion | |
| Protected Speech - things that can be said that are protected by law | |
| Wall of Separation - written by thomas jefferson, a letter, separation of church and state | |
| Freedom of Expression - freedom of speech | |
| Selective Incorporation - guarantees in the bill of rights become applicable to the states through the 14th amendment | |
| Griswold v. Connecticut - marital privacy was protected, specifically contraceptives | |
| Roe v. Wade - determined what stats can and cannot control in abortions | |
| Planned Parenthood v. Casey - a husband doesnt have to be informed about his wife getting an abortion | |
| Bowers v. Hardwick - no privacy for homosexuals | |
| Lawrence v. Texas - 2 gay men say that texas deprived them of privacy rights and equal protection | |
| Chapter 7 Civil Rights | |
| Affirmative Action - policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, sex, or national origin"[1] into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group | |
| De jure segregation - racial segregation forced by law | |
| Separate but Equal Doctrine - separating the races, but saying that what they have is equal | |
| Black Codes - unofficial laws put in place to limit human rights of blacks | |
| Equality of Opportunity - no discrimination | |
| Plessy v. Ferguson - segregation on buses, ruled that it is constitutional, “separate but equal” - justified segregation | |
| Civil Disobedience - refusal to obey some laws | |
| Equality of Results - | |
| Brown v. Board of Education- segregation of children in schools, court voted it was unconstitutional | |
| Civil Rights - positive actions that governmental officials or institutions take to protect individuals against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by the government or individuals | |
| Jim Crow Laws - segregated public places | |
| Univ. of Cal. Regents v. Bakke - diversity in the classroom | |
| De facto segregation - racial discrimination | |
| Majority-Minority District -district in which the people are racial or ethnic minorities | |
| Gratz v. Bollinger - undergraduate program decided using race | |
| Grutter v. Bollinger - could take race into consideration for accepting student into college | |
| Chapter 17 Social Policy | |
| Entitlement - having rights to something | |
| Social Welfare State - the state plays the primary role in the protection and promotion of the economic and social well-being of its citizens | |
| Great Society - saw government as providing a hand up, not a handout | |
| War on Poverty - Making poverty a national concern set in motion a series of bills and acts, creating programs such as Head Start, food stamps, work study, Medicare and Medicaid, lyndon b johnson declared this, it reduced poverty rates and improved living | |
| New Deal - attempted to provide recovery and relief from the great depression, and provided for social and economic legislation to benefit the mass of working people | |
| Welfare - financial and other aid provided by the gov to people in need | |
| Redistribution Program - way of spreading income among different economic classes |
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