Untitled Flashcards Set

• Locke/Hobbes

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

• Popular Sovereignty

• 5 Principles of American Attitudes on Gov

• Elitism, Pluralism, Participatory

• Shay’s Rebellion

• Great Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

• Anti-Fed vs Fed concerns

• Liberty vs Order

• Judicial review

• Constitution

  • Supremacy Clause

  • Commerce Clause 

  • Elastic/Necessary and Proper Clause

  • Full Faith and Credit Clause

  • Amendment Process

• Enumerated Powers

• Implied Powers

• Shared Powers

• 10th Amendment

• Principles of the Constitution

  • Popular Sovereignty

  • Limited Govt

  • Separation of Powers

  • Checks and Balances

  • Rule of Law

  • Federalism

• Dual Federalism vs. Cooperative Federalism

• Fiscal Federalism

• Federal Grants-in-aid

  • Categorical

  • Block

• Crossover Sanctions

• Crosscutting Requirements

• Project vs Formula

• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

• Liberty and Order

• Due Process/Rights of the Accused

• 1st Amendment

  • Religion

    • Establishment Clause

    • Free Exercise Clause

  • Speech

    • Time, Place, and Manner Restrictions

  • Press

    • Prior Restraint

• Political Socialization

• Political Culture

• Political Efficacy

• Public Opinion

• Polls: Opinion, Tracking, Exit, Straw

• Random Sample

• Sampling Error

• Scientific Poll/Margin of Error

• Keynesian Economics

• Supply-side Economics

• Monetary Policy

• Fiscal Policy

• Federal Reserve

• Linkage Institution

• Party Conventions

• Regional Realignments

• Third Party Candidate

• Independent Candidate

• Demographic Coalition

• Party Coalition

• Voter Turnout

• Voter Behavior

• Rational Choice Voting

• Retrospective Voting

• Prospective Voting

• Party-Line Voting

• Campaign Consultants

• Horse Race Journalism

• Hard Money

• Soft Money

• Dark Money

• Attack Ads

• “Stand by Your Ad” provision

• Independent Expenditures

• PAC

• Super PAC

• Interest Group

• Lobbying

• Grassroots Lobbying

• Free-Rider Problem

House and Senate

• Leadership

• Rules

• #s/terms/age/etc.

• Incumbent Advantage

• Filibuster

• Role of congressional staff

• Types and Functions of Committees

• Budgetary Process

  • Mandatory vs discretionary spending

  • Entitlement programs

  • Debt ceiling

  • Historical trend

  • Revenue vs expenditures

  • 16th Amendment

• Checks and Balances

• Election Process

  • Caucuses

  • Types of primaries

  • Gerrymandering

  • Incumbents

• Policy-making

  • How a bill becomes a law

  • Who/what influences the process

  • Models of representation (delegate, trustee, politico)

• Roles of the President/Staff -> including all related details.

• Requirements (Constitutional)

• Informal v. Formal Powers of the President

• Executive Orders v. Executive Agreements

• Checks on the Executive, Bureaucracy, Judiciary

  • Impeachment process specifics

• Relationship between President, Press, and Public Opinion

• Shifts in presidential power and the attempts to limit

• Steps to Presidential Nominations

• How electoral college works

• Purpose and function of the bureaucracy

  • Discretionary Authority

  • Oversight

  • Iron Triangles

• Federal Court set up

• Supreme Court Basics/ Role of ideology

• Judicial Activism v. Restraint

• Role of stare decisis