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Give the president additional powers in case of military emergencies
Delineate a clear chain of command in the event of nuclear war
Criticize the president for declaring war without authorization from Congress
Enable the president to commit troops to United Nations peacekeeping forces
Limit the president’s authority to commit troops overseas
Rules
Select
Joint
Standing
Conference
The Supreme Court has ruled that benefits are constitutionally required.
Interest groups concerned with Social Security are ineffective.
The global economy makes government insurance programs necessary.
There are many voters who support Social Security.
Government cannot predict the number of new retirees each year
It consists of career civil servants with decades of experience in government service.
Its members have varying levels of influence on presidential decisions.
Its members hold office for fixed terms that coincide with the president’s.
Its members must be selected from among current or former members of Congress.
Its members are required to approve presidential policy decisions.
The Twelfth Amendment
Proportional representation
Multimember legislative districts
Single-member legislative districts
Strong party loyalty of elected representatives
The United States system of international alliances
The social bases of the parties’ voting support
The media’s criticism of the president and Congress
Spending priorities in the federal budget
The rate of voter participation
Increases in entitlement programs
Higher interest rates caused by an increase in the discount rate
The provisions of the Gramm-Rudman- Hollings Act
Increased purchases of United States govern- ment securities by foreign investors
The growth of the United States trade imbalance
Raiding
Reapportionment
Apportionment
Gerrymandering
Filibustering
Directly selecting the head of an executive agency
Impeaching the head of an executive agency
Using the Court to block implementation of proposed regulations
Controlling an executive agency’s annual budget
Changing the term length of heads of independent regulatory commissions
Men are more likely to vote than are women.
Blue-collar workers are more likely to vote than are professionals.
Those with less than a high school education are more likely to vote than are college graduates.
Democrats are more likely to vote than are Republicans.
Senior citizens are more likely to vote than are college students.
The president’s party often wins a majority of seats in Congress by riding the president’s coattails.
The allocation of electoral votes in the winner-take-all system exaggerates the margin of victory.
Presidents are allowed to implement their legislative agendas without interference during their first term.
The new president is allowed to replace a significant number of justices on the Supreme Court.
The incoming president automatically gains control of Congress.
Applying their resources evenly among the states, because they must win popular votes in a majority of the states to be elected
Focusing on larger, competitive states, because they might tip the balance of the electoral college
Focusing on small states, because these states have proportionally more electoral votes than more populous states have
Ignoring the electoral college, because the popular vote determines the outcome of the election
Ignoring the electoral college, because more states are moving away from the winner- take-all system
Federal law takes precedence over state law when the laws conflict
Only Congress may declare war
The Senate should have a greater role in foreign affairs than does the House of Representatives
The federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce
The Supreme Court has the power to overturn decisions of lower courts
Regulatory policy
Judicial policy
Fiscal policy
Distributive policy
Monetary policy
Made states sovereign over the national government, while the Articles were based on national sovereignty
Was difficult to amend, while the Articles included an easier process requiring approval by a simple majority of states
Provided for a presidential system of government, while the Articles provided for a parliamentary system of government
Created a dominant national executive, while the Articles established a dominant national legislature
Provided for a strong national government with many powers, while the Articles created a weak central government with few independent powers
Original intent
Judicial restraint
Judicial activism
Judicial review
Stare decisis
Establishment of two legislative chambers that have different structures and rules
Members of the House of Representatives having two-year terms
President having veto power over both chambers of Congress
Members of the House and Senate having to appease their mutual constituencies
Checks that Congress has over the federal bureaucracy
Of their parents
Of their parents
Of their friends
Of their teachers
Endorsed by the media
Influencing older citizens’ opinions of incumbents
Affecting the public’s views on domestic policy only
Influencing which issues the public sees as important
Changing well-educated people’s views on foreign policy
Influencing the public’s views on controversial issues only
Dealignment
Realignment
Republicanism
Ticket splitting
Caucusing
It establishes the jurisdiction of federal courts in litigation involving two or more states.
It is the principle that affirms that courts are bound by prior decisions.
It is the policy by which the Supreme Court decides which of the appellate cases it will hear.
It directs states to provide a lawyer for people who cannot pay for their own legal defense
It holds high courts responsible for determining the constitutionality of proposed legislation before it becomes law.
Increasing presidential control over the legislative process
Increasing the power of the media as a result of more frequent presidential press conferences
Reducing the power of the Supreme Court through the use of executive orders
Giving more power to interest groups than to parties
Making senatorial approval of presidential appointees ceremonial
Giving the federal government control over social welfare programs
Bringing about greater equality in the provision of social services in different states
Limiting state governments’ ability to assess income taxes
Expanding the authority of county and municipal governments at the expense of state governments
Shifting the responsibilities and costs for many programs to state governments
Determining the size of the Supreme Court
Nominating the chief justice of the Supreme Court
Limiting the length of judicial terms
Educing the salary of judges while they are sitting
Altering the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
Surveying only cell phone users
Selecting a random sample
Asking leading questions
Contacting only registered voters
Conducting the survey online
The necessary and proper clause
The privileges and immunities clause
The contract clause
The debts and engagements clause
The executive power clause
Provide expertise to members of Congress when they are writing legislation
Lobby the executive bureaucracy when they are considering new rules and regulations
Raise and spend money on election campaigns
Generate research that can be used to influence public opinion
Hire policy experts who will promote their views in the media
The power of the filibuster
Congressional oversight of the bureaucracy
Bureaucratic implementation of law
An unfunded mandate
An independent expenditure
The office of the president
The courts
Congress
The electoral college
Political parties
Oversight
Logrolling
Pocket veto
Cloture
Discharge petition
Political action committee (PAC) contribu- tions are restricted by law to the two major parties.
General elections in the United States are based on the winner-take-all principle.
House and Senate rules exclude members of minor parties from organizing coalitions with the major parties.
The public has great faith in the two major political parties.
Some states outlaw minor political parties.
Provisions of Article I, Section 8
First Amendment
Ninth Amendment
Tenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Protecting the rights of minority children in the schools
Overcoming discrimination based on sexual orientation
Racial justice
Equality for women
Affirmative action
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
House Ways and Means Committee
House Rules Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Strong Democrats were more likely to vote their party identification than were strong Republicans.
Independents were less likely to vote than were party identifiers.
There was no difference among Independents voting for candidates of either party.
Partisanship was a good predictor of the way a person voted.
The number of strong Democrats was lesst han the number of strong Republicans.
Ethnic pride
Party identification
Policy attitude
Group identity
Political culture
Personal casework and services
Partisan discipline
Logrolling
Pork barrel legislation
Filibustering
A person’s right to know the reasons for his or her imprisonment
A person’s right to not be charged for an action committed before that action was a crime
A person’s right to trial by jury
The protection against cruel and unusual punishment
A demand from one state to extradite a suspect from another state
Three-fourths of the electorate votes in a presi- dential election.
The South votes in larger numbers than does any other region of the country.
Men vote in larger numbers than do women.
There is no relationship between the age of the voter and participation rates.
The voter- participation rate is one of the low- est of any industrialized nation.
The First Amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances
The Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure
The Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination
The Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment
The Tenth Amendment right of states to powers not given to the national government
It is easy to garner support from most members of Congress on any issue.
All members of society desire the legislation that special interests pursue.
It is very easy to get legislation passed in Congress
A narrow constituency derives the benefits from such legislation but the costs are spread broadly across the population.
Interest group activity represents the democratic process at work because individual interest groups often represent more than half the population.
It established the presidential system and gave the United States Supreme Court power to serve as the ultimate arbiter of constitutional disputes.
It allowed southern states to count each slave as three-fifths of one person for determining representation in the House of Representatives.
It provided equality of representation among the states in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
It proposed a Senate with equal representation for each state and a House of Representatives with membership established according to the population of each state.
It denied Congress the power to establish tariffs on exported merchandise.
Individual contributions to candidates
Soft money
Hard money
Public disclosure rules
Lobbying
Required that people with disabilities be given equal access to public facilities
Required that buildings be retrofitted or remodeled to give equal access to people with disabilities
Did not go far enough to establish equal access to public facilities
Applied only to federal facilities and did nothing to accommodate people in municipal buildings
Required that states and cities pay for federally mandated construction and remodeling
A standing committee of each house for a vote
An ad hoc committee for judicial review
The Rules Committee of each house for reconciliation and compromise
The majority and minority leaders of both houses for compromise
A conference committee for review and compromise
An enumerated power
An implied power
An inherent power
A reserved power
A concurrent power
Strengthen the mutual defense agreements between the countries of western Europe
Set up a mutual defense agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada
Encourage trade between the United States and the countries of western Europe
Reduce trade barriers between the United States, Mexico, and Canada
Set up a system whereby the countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Bloc could be admitted to North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Provide for a balanced budget
Minimize the threat of tyranny from any one branch of government
Ensure that the states do not become too powerful
Ensure efficient government
Ensure that the federal government is militarily strong
Through mass demonstrations to raise awareness of their cause
Through lobbying of individual members of Congress for support on legislation
Through litigation in the courts to gain legal protections against discrimination
By launching educational campaigns to increase the level of public support for their cause
By persuading presidents to issue executive orders that prevent discrimination within the federal workforce
President Ronald Reagan nominating Sandra Day O’Connor to the United States Supreme Court
President John F. Kennedy negotiating the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union
President Bill Clinton advocating for public policy reform on his Health Security Express bus
President George W. Bush deploying United States troops to Iraq
President Barack Obama delivering the State of the Union address to Congress
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