Midterm Review Flashcards

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What is the Equal rights Amendment?

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-Proposed amendment to the Constitution that banned gender discrimination

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What are Jim Crow Laws?

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-Law passed by southern states that enforced segregation

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What is the three-fifths compromise?

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-Counted each slave as three-fifths a person when calculating the representation in the House of Representatives

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What is Judicial Review?

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-Courts authority to declare laws void, that violate the Constitution

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What is general election?

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-Final election that selects an officeholder

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What is the primary election?

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-Narrows the number of the parties candidates and determines who will run in the general election

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What is an initiative?

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-Proposed law or state constitutional amendment placed on the ballot in response to a citizen petition

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What is Civil Rights?

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-General rights to equal treatment under the law.

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9
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What is the appropriation process?

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  • Process of providing funding for governmental programs

- How to spend budget

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What is agenda setting?

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  • Making an issue so visible that important political leader take it seriously
  • Determine the subject of conflicts
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What is Checks and balances?

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  • Constitutional division of power into separate branches

- Gives each institution the power to block the actions of the others

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What is the 1st Amendment?

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-Freedom of speech, press, religion, and to protest

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What is the 4th Amendmenft?

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-Bans unreasonable searches and seizures

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What is the 5th Amendment?

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-Govt cant deprive citizens of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

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What is the 8th Amendment?

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  • Prevents federal government from imposing excessive bail and fines
  • Prevents cruel and unusual punishment
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Pork-barrel spending?

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  • A representative will try to do as much for there constituents and spend funds to gain advantage
  • A member of the appropriations committee that spends money towards state or district
17
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What is constituency

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-ppl being represented by person in ofgice

18
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What is democracy?

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-A government which all citizens share power

19
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McCulloch vs. Maryland

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-S.C. first used judicial review to declare a state law unconstitutional

20
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Affirmative Action?

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-Programs designed to enhance opportunities for race or gender based groups

21
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What is the importance of a Committee Chair?

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  • Gatekeeping

- Agenda Setting

22
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What is a representative democracy?

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-People vote for a representative that best represent their interests

23
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What is direct democracy?

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-Citizens vote for initiatives

24
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What is Gatekeeping?

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-Power of committee chair to set agendas and determine whether a bill dies or moves on