AP Gov Midterm
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| Government | show 🗑
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| show | goods, such as clean air and clean water that everyone must share.
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| politics | show 🗑
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| Political participation | show 🗑
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| single-issue groups | show 🗑
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| policymaking | show 🗑
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| show | the channels or access points through which issues and people's policy preferences get on the government's policy agenda.
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| policy agenda | show 🗑
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| show | an issue that arises when people disagree about a problem and a public-policy choice.
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| Policymaking institutions | show 🗑
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| show | A choice that government makes in response to a political issue. A policy is a course of action taken with regard to some problem.
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| democracy | show 🗑
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| Majority rule | show 🗑
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| minority rights | show 🗑
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| show | A basic principle of traditional democratic theory that describes the relationship between the few leaders and the many followers.
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| Pluralist theory | show 🗑
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| show | a theory of government and politics contending that societies are divided along class lines and that an upper-class elite will rule, regardless of the formal niceties of governmental organization.
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| show | a theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government is weakened. ends up in gridlock.
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| Gross domestic product | show 🗑
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| individualism | show 🗑
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| constitution | show 🗑
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| show | Rights inherent in human beings, not dependent on governments, which include life, liberty, and property.
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| show | According to John Locke, the required basis for government. The Declaration of Independence reflects Locke’s view on how governments derive their authority
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| show | The idea that certain things are out of bounds for government because of the natural rights of citizens.
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| show | The first constitution of the United States, adopted by Congress in 1777 and enacted in 1781.
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| Shay’s Rebellion | show 🗑
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| factions | show 🗑
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| show | The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for equal representation of each state in Congress regardless of the state’s population.
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| VA Plan | show 🗑
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| show | The compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention that established two houses of Congress
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| show | A court order requiring jailers to explain to a judge why they are holding a prisoner in custody.
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| show | An important part of the Madisonian model that requires each of the three branches of government to be relatively independent of the others so that one cannot control the others. Power is shared among these three institutions.
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| show | An important part of the Madisonian model designed to limit government’s power by requiring that power be balanced among the different governmental institutions. These institutions continually check one another’s activities.
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| show | A form of government that derives its power, directly or indirectly, from the people. Those chosen to govern are accountable to those whom they govern.
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| show | Supporters of the U.S. Constitution at the time the states were contemplating its adoption.
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| Anti-Federalists | show 🗑
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| Federalist Papers | show 🗑
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| Bill of Rights | show 🗑
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| show | A constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1978 and sent to the state legislatures for ratification, stating that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” Failed.
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| show | Court established Judicial Review. One of the checks on Congress.
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| judicial review | show 🗑
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| federalism | show 🗑
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| show | A way of organizing a nation so that all power resides in the central government. Most governments today, including those of Great Britain and Japan, are unitary governments.
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| intergovernmental relations | show 🗑
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| supremacy clause | show 🗑
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| show | Powers Reserved to the States and People
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| McCulloch v. Maryland | show 🗑
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| enumerated powers | show 🗑
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| show | Powers of the federal government that go beyond those enumerated in the Constitution. The Constitution states that Congress has the power to “make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution” the powers enumerated in Article I.
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| elastic clause | show 🗑
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| Gibbons v. Ogden | show 🗑
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| show | A clause in Article IV, Section 1, of the Constitution requiring each state to recognize the official documents and civil judgments rendered by the courts of other states.
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| show | A legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one state to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.
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| dual federalism | show 🗑
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| Cooperative federalism | show 🗑
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| fiscal federalism | show 🗑
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| show | Federal grants that can be used only for specific purposes, or “categories,” of state and local spending. They come with strings attached, such as nondiscrimination provisions.
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| Project grants | show 🗑
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| show | Federal categorical grants distributed according to a formula specified in legislation or in administrative regulations.
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| block grants | show 🗑
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| show | The legal constitutional protections against government. Although our civil liberties are formally set down in the Bill of Rights, the courts, police, and legislatures define their meaning.
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| Bill of Rights | show 🗑
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| show | Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
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| Fourteenth Amendment | show 🗑
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| selective incorporation | show 🗑
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| establishment clause | show 🗑
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| show | A First Amendment provision that prohibits government from interfering with the practice of religion.
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| libel | show 🗑
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| slander | show 🗑
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| show | Nonverbal communication, such as burning a flag or wearing an armband. The Supreme Court has accorded some symbolic speech protection under the First Amendment.
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| probable cause | show 🗑
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| show | The rule that evidence, no matter how incriminating, cannot be introduced into a trial if it was not constitutionally obtained. The rule prohibits use of evidence obtained through unreasonable search and seizure.
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| Fifth Amendment | show 🗑
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| show | The situation occurring when an individual accused of a crime is compelled to be a witness against himself or herself in court. The Fifth Amendment forbids self-incrimination.
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| right to privacy | show 🗑
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| show | Extended the 14th amendment to the States. The states are not allowed to violate the rights specified in the 14th amendment and extended the Bill of Rights.
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| show | Declared school prayer unconstitutional
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| Schenck V. United States | show 🗑
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| show | First amendment protected the press from libel suits unless it could be proved that the press report was made out of malice.
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| show | Exclusionary Rule - Evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment or other amendments may not be used in court.
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| show | Guarantees due process. Must read one's rights while in custody before questioning. Inform that they have the right to remain silent, that anything they say can and will be used against them, and the right to counsel.
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| Gideon v. Wainwright | show 🗑
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| Roe v. Wade | show 🗑
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| Griswold v. Connecticut | show 🗑
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| Incumbents | show 🗑
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| show | The mighty list of federal projects, grants, and contracts available to cities, businesses, colleges, and institutions in the district of a member of Congress.
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| show | A legislature divided into two houses.
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| show | A strategy unique to the Senate whereby opponents of a piece of legislation try to talk it to death, based on the tradition of unlimited debate.
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| show | leader of the House of Representatives.
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| Majority leader | show 🗑
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| show | Party leaders who work with the majority leader to count votes beforehand and lean on waverers whose votes are crucial to a bill favored by the party.
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| show | The principal leader of the minority party in the House of Representatives or in the Senate.
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| show | Separate subject-matter committees in each house of Congress that handle bills in different policy areas.
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| show | Congressional committees on a few subject-matter areas with membership drawn from both houses.
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| conference committees | show 🗑
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| show | Congressional committees appointed for a specific purpose, such as the Watergate investigation.
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| legislative oversight | show 🗑
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| show | The most important influencers of the congressional agenda. They play dominant roles in scheduling hearings, hiring staff, appointing subcommittees, and managing committee bills when they are brought before the full house.
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| show | A simple rule for picking committee chairs, in effect until the 1970s. The member who had served on the committee the longest and whose party controlled Congress became chair, regardless of party loyalty, mental state, or competence.
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| caucus | show 🗑
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| bill | show 🗑
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| show | The political equivalent of an indictment in criminal law, prescribed by the Constitution. The House of Representatives may impeach the president by a majority vote for “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
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| cabinet | show 🗑
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| legislative veto | show 🗑
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| veto | show 🗑
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| show | veto taking place when Congress adjourns within 10 days of having submitted a bill to the president, who simply lets it die by neither signing nor vetoing it.
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| War Powers Resolution | show 🗑
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| approval ratings | show 🗑
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| Bureaucracy | show 🗑
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| merit principle | show 🗑
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| independent regulatory agency | show 🗑
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| independent executive agency | show 🗑
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| Policy implementation | show 🗑
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| Job specialization | show 🗑
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| presidential commissions | show 🗑
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| show | The jurisdiction of courts that hear a case first, usually in a trial. These are the courts that determine the facts about a case.
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| show | The jurisdiction of courts that hear cases brought to them on appeal from lower courts. These courts do not review the factual record, only the legal issues involved. Compare original jurisdiction.
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| district courts | show 🗑
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| appellate courts | show 🗑
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| Supreme Court | show 🗑
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| solicitor general | show 🗑
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| concurring opinion | show 🗑
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| Dissenting opinion | show 🗑
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| plurality opinion | show 🗑
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| judicial review | show 🗑
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| show | How similar cases have been decided in the past.
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| Federalist #51 | show 🗑
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