Required Court Cases Required Documents Role of Congress and the Executive Linkage institutions (Media and Interest Groups) Policy (Economic, Domestic, and Foreign)
100
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
This case found state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
100
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Under this, the federal government could not tax, could not coin money, and could not regulate international trade.
100
What is a bicameral legislature?
This means Congress has two legislative bodies.
100
What is the First Amendment?
This prevents the government from censoring the press.
100
What is Medicare?
The federal government pays for part of the medical costs for retired or disabled people under Social Security.
200
What is Roe v. Wade?
This case established that unduly restrictions on abortions are unconstitutional.
200
What is Brutus 1?
An anti-federalist paper which speaks about the potential drawbacks of a federal government with immense power, including citizens being required to sacrifice their liberties.
200
What is legislative oversight?
The process of monitoring the bureaucracy and its administration of policy.
200
What is yellow journalism?
Journalism based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
200
What is monetary policy?
Money and banking policies and their effect on the economy.
300
What is Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission?
The case established the spending of money by an individual as protected under the First Amendment's freedom of expression clause.
300
What is Letter from Birmingham Jail?
A document which contains allusions to a significant amount of underpinnings of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
300
What is the executive branch?
Congressional reforms in the 1970s which decentralized power and Congress gave more power to this.
300
What is the pluralist theory of interest groups?
The belief that public policies emerge from compromises reached among competing groups.
300
What is fiscal policy?
Taxation and budget policies and their effect on the economy.
400
What is Engel v. Vitale?
The New York court case which established a necessary separation between religion and school officials leading prayers in school.
400
What is Federalist 78?
This established that the Legislature is not the judge of the constitutionality of its own actions.
400
What is an executive order?
A tool not specified in the Constitution, but has been consistently used by presidents to bypass Congress on issues of policymaking.
400
What are interest groups?
These groups use lobbying, contribute money to candidates, file lawsuits, and appeal to public opinion in order to influence the political process.
400
What is the Clean Ari Act of 1963
This included minimum auto emissions standards across the nation and other rules for improving air and water quality.
500
What is Shaw v. Reno?
It established that race cannot be the predominant factor in drawing voting district lines.
500
What is Federalist 51?
This document argues for checks and balances in a federal government.
500
What is an independent regulatory commission?
This exercises quasi-legislative, quasi-judicial, and executives functions.
500
What is horse-race journalism?
The act of covering campaigns by emphasizing the relative standings of the candidates in the polls rather than the issues they discuss.
500
What is appeasement?
Theory calling for the taking of a nonmilitary route to compromise with oppressive regimes and allowing them some expansion.






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