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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…
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…
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
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…
incumbents
casework/ constituent services
pork barrel
bicameral legislature
those individuals who already hold office who are running for…
activities of members of congress that help constituents as in…
federal projects, grants, and contracts available to state and…
a legislature divided into houses. congress and all state legi…
incumbents
those individuals who already hold office who are running for…
casework/ constituent services
activities of members of congress that help constituents as in…
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
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.
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…
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
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
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
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;…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…