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Prisca pg.248 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Supply-Side Economics | An economic theory based on the premise that reductions in federaltaxes and spending will increase the private sector's productivity |
| Swing Voters | Voters who change party loyalities periodically, rather than staying exclusively with the candidates of on party |
| Refers to religious leaders constituting and running the government, such as in contemporary Iran | Theocracy |
| A Constitutional Convention agreement that considered slaves to be worth three-fifths of a white voter for purposes of representation in the House of Representatives | Three-Fifths Compromise |
| Voters dividing their candidates selection between the two major parties, a phenomenon that has become far more common as of late | Ticket-Splitting |
| Trustee Orientation | Representatives or senators whose votes on a bill are mainly reflections of their own judgement rather than an extension of their constituents. |
| Umbrella Parties | The idea that both major parties accept members from nearrly all groups and social classes in America. By clinging to the political center, they maximize their voting appeal. |
| A political system in which the central government has supreme power, and in which states and localities derive all their power from that governmental level. | Unitary Government |
| U.S.v. Curtis-Wright Export Corp. | The Supreme Court case that decided that the president had exclusive power in the handling of international relations. |
| A presidential power that is used to reject a bill passed by Congress. In Latin, literally, "I forbid" | Veto |
| Legislation passed in 1973 authorizing Congress to bring American combat troops home after sixty days, despite presidential opposition. The act also calls for close congressional-presidential consultaion prior to the beginning of combat operations | War Power Act |
| Watchdog Role | The role of the media centering on protecting the public from political, social or economic excesses by exposing those individuals responsible for them. |
| Whistle-Blower | Bureaucrat who reveal waste or corruption in his/her agency or department |
| Writ of Certiorari | An order by the Supreme Court to send up the case record because there is a claim that the lower court mishandled the case (more than ninety percent of all writs are denied by the Court.) |
| A type of jpurnalisim attributed to William Randolph Hearst at the turn of the century that was intended to promote newspaper sales through sensational, exagerated news stories | Yellow Journalism |
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