Study sets matching "ap government"
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Bicameral Legislature
Filibuster
Marginal District
Franking Privilege
A lawmaking body made up of two chambers or parts.
An attempt to defeat a bill in the Senate by talking indefinit…
Political districts in which candidates elected to the House o…
The ability of members to mail letters to their constituents f…
Bicameral Legislature
A lawmaking body made up of two chambers or parts.
Filibuster
An attempt to defeat a bill in the Senate by talking indefinit…
Incumbent
Political Action Committee (PAC)
Primary
Position Issue
currently holding an office
A committee set up by a corporation, labor union, or interest…
a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
an issue about which the public is divided and rival candidate…
Incumbent
currently holding an office
Political Action Committee (PAC)
A committee set up by a corporation, labor union, or interest…
Articles of Confederation
Shays' rebellion
Checks and Balances
Separation of powers
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executiv…
Rebellion led by farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787…
A system that allows each branch of government to limit the po…
A way of dividing the power of government among the legislativ…
Articles of Confederation
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executiv…
Shays' rebellion
Rebellion led by farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787…
Government
Politics
The Policymaking System
Linkage Institutions
The institutions through which public policies are made for a…
The process determining the leaders we select and the policies…
Political channels through which people's concerns become poli…
Government
The institutions through which public policies are made for a…
Politics
The process determining the leaders we select and the policies…
Elite Thoeries
Pluralist Theory
Articles of Confederation
Shays' rebellion
A belief that certain groups hold disproportionate power in a…
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executiv…
Rebellion led by farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787…
Elite Thoeries
A belief that certain groups hold disproportionate power in a…
Pluralist Theory
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
John Locke
Social Contract
Natural Rights
consent of the governed
1632-1704. English philosopher whose Treatises of Government e…
A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights…
...... Life, Liberty, and Property
the idea that government derives its authority by the sanction…
John Locke
1632-1704. English philosopher whose Treatises of Government e…
Social Contract
A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights…
Linkage institutions
4 key linkage institutions
3 Indirect linkage institutions
Party competition
organizations that translate inputs from the public into outpu…
parties, interest groups, media
parties, interest groups, media
battle between Democrats and Republicans for control of public…
Linkage institutions
organizations that translate inputs from the public into outpu…
4 key linkage institutions
parties, interest groups, media
Elite Thoeries
Pluralist Theory
Articles of Confederation
Shays' rebellion
A belief that certain groups hold disproportionate power in a…
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executiv…
Rebellion led by farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787…
Elite Thoeries
A belief that certain groups hold disproportionate power in a…
Pluralist Theory
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
Elite-Class Theory
Pluralist Theory
Articles of Confederation
Shays' rebellion
A belief that certain groups hold disproportionate power in a…
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executiv…
Rebellion led by farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787…
Elite-Class Theory
A belief that certain groups hold disproportionate power in a…
Pluralist Theory
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
Elite-Class Theory
Pluralist Theory
Articles of Confederation
Shays' rebellion
A belief that certain groups hold disproportionate power in a…
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executiv…
Rebellion led by farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787…
Elite-Class Theory
A belief that certain groups hold disproportionate power in a…
Pluralist Theory
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
Federalism
"necessary and proper" clause
nullification
dual federalism
Government authority shared by national and local governments
Section of the Constitution allowing Congress to pass all laws…
The doctrine that a state can declare null and void a federal…
Doctrine holding tht the national government is supreme in its…
Federalism
Government authority shared by national and local governments
"necessary and proper" clause
Section of the Constitution allowing Congress to pass all laws…
civil liberties
Bill of Rights
First Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
The legal constitutional protections against government. Altho…
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which defin…
The constitutional amendment that establishes the four great l…
The constitutional amendment adopted after the civil war that…
civil liberties
The legal constitutional protections against government. Altho…
Bill of Rights
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which defin…
Articles of Confederation
Monarchy
Natural Law
Separation of powers
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executiv…
A government ruled by a king or queen
A doctrine that society should be governed by certain ethical…
A way of dividing the power of government among the legislativ…
Articles of Confederation
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executiv…
Monarchy
A government ruled by a king or queen
Government
Politics
The Policymaking System
Linkage Institutions
The institutions through which public policies are made for a…
The process determining the leaders we select and the policies…
Political channels through which people's concerns become poli…
Government
The institutions through which public policies are made for a…
Politics
The process determining the leaders we select and the policies…
John Locke
Social Contract
Natural Rights
consent of the governed
1632-1704. English philosopher whose Treatises of Government e…
A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights…
...... Life, Liberty, and Property
the idea that government derives its authority by the sanction…
John Locke
1632-1704. English philosopher whose Treatises of Government e…
Social Contract
A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights…
Muckraker
Associated Press
Yellow Journalism
Equal Time Rule
Journalist who exposed corruption and other problems of the la…
The telegraph system allowed the exchange of national and inte…
Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to…
an FCC rule that if a broadcaster sells time to one candidate,…
Muckraker
Journalist who exposed corruption and other problems of the la…
Associated Press
The telegraph system allowed the exchange of national and inte…
Government
Public Goods
Single Issue Group
Linkage Institutions
The institutions and processes through which public policies a…
Goods, Like Clean Air, that every one must share.
Groups that have a narrow interest, dislike compromise, and dr…
Political channels through which people's concerns become poli…
Government
The institutions and processes through which public policies a…
Public Goods
Goods, Like Clean Air, that every one must share.
Power
Authority
Legitimacy
Democracy
Ability of one person to get another person to act in accordan…
The right to use power
Political authority conferred by law or by a state or national…
A term used to describe three political systems in which the p…
Power
Ability of one person to get another person to act in accordan…
Authority
The right to use power
Government
Politics
The Policymaking System
Linkage Institutions
A system that makes authoritative public policies made for soc…
The process by which government officials, as well as the poli…
Political channels through which people's concerns become poli…
Government
A system that makes authoritative public policies made for soc…
Politics
The process by which government officials, as well as the poli…
Unalienable
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Shays' Rebellion
A human right based on nature or God
A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutio…
A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitu…
A 1787 rebellion in which ex-Revolutionary War soldiers attemp…
Unalienable
A human right based on nature or God
Articles of Confederation
A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutio…
Government
Politics
The Policymaking System
Linkage Institutions
A system that makes authoritative public policies made for soc…
The process by which government officials, as well as the poli…
Political channels through which people's concerns become poli…
Government
A system that makes authoritative public policies made for soc…
Politics
The process by which government officials, as well as the poli…
Federalism
"necessary and proper" clause
nullification
dual federalism
Government authority shared by national and local governments
Section of the Constitution allowing Congress to pass all laws…
The doctrine that a state can declare null and void a federal…
Doctrine holding tht the national government is supreme in its…
Federalism
Government authority shared by national and local governments
"necessary and proper" clause
Section of the Constitution allowing Congress to pass all laws…
Power
Authority
Legitimacy
Democracy
Ability of one person to get another person to act in accordan…
The right to use power
Political authority conferred by law or by a state or national…
A term used to describe three political systems in which the p…
Power
Ability of one person to get another person to act in accordan…
Authority
The right to use power
Engel v Vitale
Lemon v Kurtzman
Reynolds v U.S.
Baker v. Carr
First Amendment/Establishment Clause - Government-directed pra…
Parochial schools must be private schools. They cannot be publ…
First Amendment/Free Exercise Clause - the statute can punish…
1962 in Tennessee, federal government has the ability to inter…
Engel v Vitale
First Amendment/Establishment Clause - Government-directed pra…
Lemon v Kurtzman
Parochial schools must be private schools. They cannot be publ…