Big Names
1. Three authors of the Federalist Papers: Jay, Hamilton, Madison
2. Chief Justice wrote the opinion for Marbury v. Madison: Marshall
3. His election to his fourth term will inspire the 22nd amendment: FDR
4. Argued that government is merely a reflection of underlying economic forces: Marx
5. The assassination of this man will help the cause of the Mugwumps: Garfield
6. Many believe that this man stole votes from Gore in the 2000 pres. Election: Nader
Agencies
1. The agency required to respond to natural disasters: FEMA
2. Agency developed following 9/11: Homeland Security
3. The largest law firm in the US: Department of Justice
4. Agency that predates the Constitution: Postal Service
5. The first secretary of State: Jefferson
6. What OSHA stands for: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Amendments
1. Due process: 14th
2. Senate elected by popular vote: 17th
3. Power reserved to the states: 10th
4. 18-20 years can vote: 26th amendment
5. Attempted to clear up the line of succession to be president: 25 th
6. Five liberties guaranteed in 1st amendment: press, assembly, speech, religion, petition
Origins of political attitudes
10—theory that states that as a result of Catholics and Jews immigrating to the US and living in poor conditions they
will support politicians sympathetic to their plight
Social status theory
20 – the group that most profoundly forms our political attitudes
Family
30-- Religious group most likely to be liberal
Jews
40--The difference in political views between men and women
Gender gap
50--Early 1990s broad based political movement of conservative evangelical Christians
Christian Coalition
60--Professors most likely to be the most liberal
Professors of prestigious institutions
Campaign Finance
1. A committee set up by and representing a corporation, labor union, or interest group that raises and spends campaign
money from voluntary donations.
a. PAC
2. Spending by political action committees, corporations or labor unions that is done to help a party or candidate but is
done independently of them.
a. Independent expenditure
3. Refers to the amount of money that can be spent under federal law
a. Hard money
4. Following McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act of 2002, these groups sprang up and spent money on politics,
but did not coordinate with a candidate
a. 527 organizaitons
5. The event that shed light on shady campaign finance activities and ushered in the first campaign finance reform laws.
a. Watergate
6. Following this court case, we see the emergence of super pacs: Citizents United
Presidential Campaigns etc.
1. The alleged tendency of candidates to win more votes in an election because of the presence at the top of the ticket of
a better-known candidate, such as the president.
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a. Coattails
The person already holding an elective office
a. Incumbent
First caucus
a. Iowa
The group that decides when the state primary will take place
a. State party
When a candidate spend most of his/her funds early in the presidential races to try to gain an early lead.
a. Frontloading campaigns
Culture War
1. morality more important than self-expression with fixed rules from God
Orthodox
2. Camp associated with fundamentalist Protestants
Orthodox
3. personal freedom more important than tradition with changing rules based on circumstances of modern life
progressive
4. animated by deep differences in people's beliefs about private and public morality, about what kind of country we ought to
live in
CULTURE WAR
Campaigns
1. These “new” groups were established following the Citizens United court case: super pacs
2. Unconstitutional- drawing congressional lines with unequal populations: malaportionment
3. Drawing district lines to give one party an advantage over the other: gerrymandering
4. Primary in which you do not have to declare a party and you can vote for any candidate: blanket
5. Individuals involved in first televised debate: Nixon and Kennedy
The right to petition
1. Any organization that seeks to influence public policy: interest group
2. Farm bureaus rely primarily on this type of incentive: material
3. A widely shared demand for change in some aspect of the social or political order: social movement
4. When legislators vote on policy after learning how an interest group feels about the issue: taking political cues
5. An example: The dirty dozen: rating
6. When politicians go to work for interest groups: revolving door
Congress
1. Used to stall action in the senate: filibuster
2. Most important factor in determining chance of winning a congressional election: incumbency
3. When members of congress send information to their constituents: franking privilege
4. Republicans and blue dog democrats voted together: conservative coalition
5. First female speaker of the house: Nancy Pelosi
6. Presides over the senate but has very little power: vice president
More Congress
1. An association of members of congress: caucus
2. When parties are divided: partisan
3. Important committee that is always a joint committee (senate usually gets its way): conference committee
4. Speaker of the House who introduced the Contract with America: Newt
5. Where bills dealing with taxes must begin: House
6. The only way to end a filibuster: cloture rule
Court cases:
1. Desegregation: Brown v. Board
2. The indigent can be provided with counsel: Gideon
3. Cannot yell fire in a crowded theater: Schenk
4. You CAN burn a flag: Texas v. Johnson
5. Three tests involving government entanglement in religion: Lemon
Clauses
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Relied on in McCulloch v. Maryland: Supremacy
Used to incorporate the Bill of Rights into the states: Due Process
Separation of church and state: establishment clause
Used to justify the establishment of banks: commerce clause and necessary and proper clause
Do you know the Committees?
1. Questions potential ambassadors in the Senate
2. Joint committee that meets after each chamber passes a “similar” bill: Conference
3. Makes recommendations to the full senate regarding Justice appointments: Judicial
4. Discusses taxes in the House: Ways and Means
5. To the agencies, this is the most powerful committee: Appropriations
Media
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The way Pres. Obama announced who is VP would be: tweeted it!
Bob Woodward broke this scandalous story that will lead to the resignation of Nixon: Watergate
First Pres candidates to hold a televised debate: Nixon and Kennedy
The Pres’s ability to call news conferences any time he wants: electronic throne
Paying attention only to those stories that you already agree with: selective attention
Media’s primary role during election season: horse race/scorekeeper
media today, which seeks to uncover the dirty little secrets about government officials: Adversarial press
Now we have gavel to gavel coverage with this: C-Span
The act of government leaking news to see how the public responds: Trial Balloon
Brought down the Nixon administration: Watergate
Polls are used exhaustively with this type of journalism: Horse-race journalism
Environment
1. Example: the Dirty Dozen: ratings
2. Sierra Club is opposed to the bill… therefore that legislator is opposed to the bill: political cue
3. Chief environmental regulations enforcement agency: EPA
4. Selling additional pollution allowances: Cap and Trade
5. Warned that the use of DDT would lead to the death of birds: Silent Spring
Policy stuff
1. Those both in and out of government who find ways of pulling together a legislative majority on behalf of interests
that are not well represented in the government – policy entrepreneurs
2.
Aid to Families with Dependent Children was dismantled in 1996 and replaced with this: -TANF
3.
When the Food and Drug Administration appears to be working for the pharmaceutical companies, we might suggest
that the FDA is blank. – captured
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Author of Unsafe at any speed: Nader
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Initiated to force industries to clean up their own toxic waste sites – Superfund
Constitutional Issues
1. Two house: bicameral
2. The original number of Senators: 26
3. Those opposed to ratification: antifederalists
4. Settled the dispute between large and small states at the convention: great compromise
5. Given the power to confirm presidential appointments: senate
6. Presides over the impeachment trial: chief justice
Important people… well, mostly
1. Initiated the Great Society: Lyndon B. Johnson
2. Gave the cross of gold speech: William Jennings Bryan
3. Old Hickory: Andrew Jackson
4. Defeated in the election of 1932: Hoover
5. The leader of the federalists: Hamilton
Give me the year
1. Election of Reagan: 1980
2. John Adams is defeated: 1800
3. George W. defeats Kerry: 2004
4. Ross Perot gains 19% of the popular vote: 1992
5. Jackson wins the popular vote but losses the election: 1824
Silly Courts!
1. Topic: I know it when I see it: obscenity
2. Case: Privacy is implied: Roe
3. Case: Burn stuff, but not your draft card: Schenk
4. Term: police can use evidence if it would eventually be discovered: inevitable discovery
5. Case: established separate but equal doctrine: Plessy
Which number?
1. Vote directly for senate: 17th
2. Women gain the right to vote: 19
3. Former slaves are entitled to equal protection: 14th
4. Washington DC gets three Electoral College votes: 23rd
5. Income Tax: 16th
Terms/phrases we can’t live without
1. Those who possess a disproportionate share of the political power: Elite
2. System of restraints: checks and balances
3. A Republican form of government: representative Democracy
4. Powers given to the state governments alone: reserved powers
5. Patterned and sustained way of thinking about how political and economic life ought to be carried out: political
culture
6. The courts application of the Bill of Rights to the states: selective incorporation
It’s Party Time!
1. Two parties when Jefferson takes the Whitehouse!: Democratic Repubs and Federalists
2. Two parties when Jackson wins in 1828: Democrats and Whigs
3. Two parties when Andrew Johnson is impeached in 1868: Republicans and Democrats
4. The close election of 2000 was made even closer by this third or minor party: Green
5. The only minor party to gain major party status: Republicans
6. The unofficial party that had a major impact on Republican behavior…especially when it comes to taxes: Tea party
7. Party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives: party machine
8. Name given to the late 19th century political machine in New York City: Tammany Hall
9. Made it illegal for federal civil service employees to take part in political campaigns: Hatch Act
10. Type of parties that include minor parties such as the Socialist Workers, Libertarian and Right to Life parties:
ideological parties
National Conventions
1. About 14% of the delegates to the Democratic convention who do not have to run in primaries or caucuses:
superdelegates
2. Due to the 1970s reforms initiated for the democratic national convention the democrats have become this, similar to
fragmented: factionalized
3. Name given to the delegates who run Republican party affairs between national conventions: Republican National
Committee
4. What state parties have begun to do in order to have a say in the parties nominee: front loading (moving primary up
in the calendar)
Two Party Power
1. The majority party gets to chair every one of these: committee
2. In the House the majority party gets to choose someone for this seat, the second most powerful position in DC:
Speaker of the H
3. Third parties struggle because they seldom can win this, the most votes: a plurality
4. Feature of American elections, defined as earning all of the votes if one wins a plurality: winner take all
Precedents
1. Schenck – clear and present danger test
2. Mapp – exclusionary rule
3. Miranda – know your rights
4. Gitlow – speech and press fundamental personal liberties
5. Gideon – right to a lawyer even if indigent
Foundational
1. State and federal government share power: Federalism
2. At ratification, they favored a strong central government: federalists
3. Settled the dispute between large and small states at the Constitutional Convention: Great Compromise
4. Two House: bicameral
5. Author of the Virginia Plan: Madison
More Foundational Stuff
1. First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: John Jay
2. Stated that the real revolution was when the colonists thought of themselves as Americans: John Adams
3. Called a system of restraints: checks and balances
4. Main reason for the 3/5th compromise: gave south more representatives in House
5. Slave trade could not be acted on until this year: 1808