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madison ap gov final tri 1

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show Who gets what, when, and how  
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show Process by which policy comes into being and evolves over time. -Reveals the way our government responds to the priorities of its people. -People's interests, problems and concerns create political issues for government policymakers.  
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show • The political channels through which people’s concerns become political issues on the policy agenda • Include elections, political parties, interest groups, and the media  
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show • The issues that attract the serios attention of public officials and other people actually involved in politics at any given point in time • Responds more to societal failures  
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Political issues with policy agenda   show
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show • The branches of government charged with taking action on political issues • Congress, the presidency, and the courts  
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show To protect natural rights  
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John Locke- Ends of Government   show
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show • Belief in life and liberty • Long standing governments can be revolted against when they are ruling tyrannically and not on the consent of the governed. Governments should not be revolted against over petty matters  
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Articles of Confederation   show
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James Madison   show
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Madisonian Model   show
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Constitutional Convention and the Constitution(next 7 Questions)   show
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Delegates’ beliefs about the end of government   show
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show • Created two houses • Senate- each state gets equal representation • House-representation based on state population  
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Goal of the economic provisions in the Constitution   show
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show • States cannot pass laws imparing the obligations of contract • States cannot coin money or issue paper money • States cannot tax imports or exports from abroad or from other states • States cannot free runaway slaves from other states  
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show •Prohib the suspension of writ of habeas corpus •Prohib Congress or the states from passing ex post facto laws •Prohibits Congress or the states from passing bills of attainder •Prohibits the imposition of religious qualifications for holding of offfic  
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show Formal, Informal processes  
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show • Two procedures are proposal and ratification • It can be proposed by 2/3rds vote in each house of Congress or by a national convention • It is ratified by legislature of 3/4th of the states  
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Informal Process   show
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Marbury v. Maidson   show
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show o Favors the statues que •Ppl who desire change must usually have a sizable majority •Those opposed to change need only to win at one point in the policy making process oChange usually comes slow if at all oIt is difficult for a min. or maj. to tyrann  
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show oBoth property rights and personal freedoms have survived oSome argue the policymaking process lacks efficiency, preventing effective responses to pressing matters  
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Federalist vs. Antifederalist   show
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show o A Form of Government in which a constitution distributes power and authority between a central government and a smaller, regional government  
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Examples of How Federalism Decentralizes Politics   show
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show o Decentralizes our politics o Enhances judicial review o Decentralizes our policies  
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National Powers   show
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National Powers cont.   show
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show • Establish local governments • Regulate commerce within a state • Conduct elections • Ratify amendments to the federal Constitution • Take measures for public health, safety, and morals  
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Ultimate source of power   show
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show • Powers of the federal government that are specifically addressed in the Constitution; for Congress, these powers are listed in Article I, Section 8, and include the power to coin money, regulate its value, and impose taxes  
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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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show • Powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared to not depend on Constitutional grants, but grow out of the very existence of the national government  
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show • 10th amendment says that any power not given to the national government and restrained from the state are given to the states  
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Concurrent Powers   show
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show o Comes from Article IV o Constitution, treaties, and laws of the federal government when constitutional are the supreme laws of the land  
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McCulloch v. Maryland   show
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show o Definition: transferring responsibility for policies from the federal government to the state and local governments o Pragmatic approach to federalism by Republicans in Congress since the mid 1990s  
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show Def- the pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal system  
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Categorical Grants   show
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Project Grants   show
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show Supreme court  
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Gitlow v. New york   show
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show • Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and to petition the government of redress of grievances  
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show • Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion  
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show Government cannot prevent a newspaper from publishing something • They can only penalized them after the article is printed  
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Mapp v. Ohio   show
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Miranda v. Arizona   show
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show o Extended the right of an attorney to anyone accused of a felony in a state court o Whenever imprisonment could be imposed, a lawyer must be provided for the accused  
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show o Boldest decision supporting slavery o Ruled that a black man, slave or free, was chattel and had no rights under a White man’s government and that Congress had no power to ban slavery in the western territories o Invalidated Missouri Compromise  
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Plessy v. Ferguson   show
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show o The Supreme Court ruled segregation in schools was unconstitutional because it was inherently unequal o A year after the decision the Supreme Court order the lower courts to proceed with “all deliberate speed” to desegregate public schools  
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show o Equal protection clause of 14th Amendment o Protections guaranteed by: • Requires every state to provide “equal protection of the law” • “Equal protection of life, liberty, and property for all”  
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Korematsu v. US   show
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show o Civil right laws increase the scope of government o Regulate the behavior of individuals and institutions o Those who want to reduce the scope of government are uneasy with these laws  
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Minority-Majority   show
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show The process through which a young person acquires political orientations as they grow up, based on input from parents, teachers, the media, and friends  
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show family, media, and school  
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show • Only a small portion of American’ political learning is formal • Civics or government classes in high school teach students the basics of government  
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show • Much more important than formal • Most is accidental • Occurs in family, friends, school, and the media  
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reapportionment   show
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Demographic changes in race/ethnicity since 1970's   show
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show The distribution of the population’s beliefs about politics and policy issues  
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show • George Gallup began taking public opinion polls when his mother-in-law ran for secretary of state for Iowa • Then founded a firm that spread through the democratic world  
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show • A relatively small portion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole  
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show • The level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll. The more people interviewed the more confident one can be of the results • A typical poll of 1,500-2,000 respondents has a sampling error +/-3 percent  
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show • The key technique employed by sophisticated survey researchers, which operates on the principle that everyone should have an equal probability of being selected for the sample  
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show • Many people are skeptical of how accurate public opinion polls can be measuring only 1,500-2,000 people • Makes politicians more concerned with following rather than leading  
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show • Public opinion surveys used by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision • Most widely criticized type of poll • Voting places are randomly selected where workers will ask every tenth person how they voted  
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Political Ideology   show
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Liberal Beliefs   show
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Conservatives   show
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group that follows Liberals   show
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group that follows Conservatives   show
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show • Lower voting turn out in minorities is more linked to their socioeconomic status then to their race  
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Effects of television on newspaper readership   show
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Purpose of FCC   show
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Bias in the media   show
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Party Identification   show
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Ticket splitting   show
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Linkage Institutions   show
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show parties, elections, interest groups, media  
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Rational-Choice Theory   show
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Blanket Primary   show
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show • Elections to select party nominees in which only people who have registered in advance with the party can vote for the party’s candidates, thus encouraging greater party loyalty  
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show • Elections to select party nominees in which voters can decide on Election Day whether they want to participate in the Democratic or Republican contests  
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election of 1828   show
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election of 1860   show
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election of 1896   show
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show • New Deal coalition made by the Democratic Party • FDR won the election  
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show • Richard Nixon won the election realigning the South with the Republican Party  
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Party Realignment   show
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