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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…
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…
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…
Federalism
"necessary and proper" clause
dual federalism
unitary system
Government authority shared by national and local governments
Section of the Constitution allowing Congress to pass all laws…
Doctrine holding tht the national government is supreme in its…
sovereignty is wholly in the hands of the national government,…
Federalism
Government authority shared by national and local governments
"necessary and proper" clause
Section of the Constitution allowing Congress to pass all laws…
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.
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…
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.
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
Unalienable
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Shays' Rebellion
A human right based on nature or God
The first constitution of the United States, adopted by Congre…
A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitu…
a series of attacks on courthouses by a small band of farmers…
Unalienable
A human right based on nature or God
Articles of Confederation
The first constitution of the United States, adopted by Congre…
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
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…
House of Representatives
Senate
descriptive v.s substantive representat…
incumbent
-suppose to be the only true form of federal government that w…
The upper house that is made up of 100 congressional members;…
descriptive representation: when congressional representation…
are individuals that already hold office and usually win offic…
House of Representatives
-suppose to be the only true form of federal government that w…
Senate
The upper house that is made up of 100 congressional members;…
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…
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.
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…
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…
1st Amendment
2nd Amendment
3rd Amendment
4th Amendment
Freedom of religion (Engle v Vital, Lemon v Kurtzman), speech…
Right to bear arms
Quartering of soldiers
Search and arrest warrants requires probable cause (Mapp v Ohi…
1st Amendment
Freedom of religion (Engle v Vital, Lemon v Kurtzman), speech…
2nd Amendment
Right to bear arms
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Shay's Rebellion
Virginia Plan
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…
Proposal to create a strong national government
Articles of Confederation
A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutio…
Constitutional Convention
A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitu…
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…
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…
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
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
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…