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What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
This case found state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
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What is the Articles of Confederation?
Under this, the federal government could not tax, could not coin money, and could not regulate international trade.
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What is a bicameral legislature?
This means Congress has two legislative bodies.
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What is the First Amendment?
This prevents the government from censoring the press.
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What is Medicare?
The federal government pays for part of the medical costs for retired or disabled people under Social Security.
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What is Roe v. Wade?
This case established that unduly restrictions on abortions are unconstitutional.
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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.
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What is legislative oversight?
The process of monitoring the bureaucracy and its administration of policy.
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What is yellow journalism?
Journalism based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
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What is monetary policy?
Money and banking policies and their effect on the economy.
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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.
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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.
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What is the executive branch?
Congressional reforms in the 1970s which decentralized power and Congress gave more power to this.
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What is the pluralist theory of interest groups?
The belief that public policies emerge from compromises reached among competing groups.
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What is fiscal policy?
Taxation and budget policies and their effect on the economy.
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What is Engel v. Vitale?
The New York court case which established a necessary separation between religion and school officials leading prayers in school.
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What is Federalist 78?
This established that the Legislature is not the judge of the constitutionality of its own actions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What is Shaw v. Reno?
It established that race cannot be the predominant factor in drawing voting district lines.
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What is Federalist 51?
This document argues for checks and balances in a federal government.
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What is an independent regulatory commission?
This exercises quasi-legislative, quasi-judicial, and executives functions.
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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.
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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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