Senator Joe McCarthy became a powerful policy entrepreneur by claiming that Soviet agents had infiltrated the U.S. government

Communists had inflated the government

Review de Tocqueville and religion

de Tocqueville was amazed at how religious Americans were in comparison to his fellow Europeans.

Americans will tolerate economic inequality and political inequality

Americans are more willing to tolerate economic inequality than political inequality.
They believe in maintaining “equality of opportunity” in the economy but not “equality of results.”

Most important source of political values?

the family

The explanation for congressional voting behavior that assumes members vote to please their constituents is

Representational model

An attempt to defeat a bill in the Senate by talking indefinitely, thus preventing the Senate from taking action on the bill.

Review Filibuster

Who creates leg. Courts

Congress

Which immigrant group is concerned with bilingual education?

Hispanics

Review enumerated powers

Powers given to the national government alone

The same political party controls the White House and both chambers of Congress.

unified government

What economic class do most Americans consider themselves to belong?

Middle Class

An order by a higher court directing a lower court to send up a case for review.

writ of certiorari

Plan that proposed allocating equal seats to each state

New Jersey Plan

Settled in the most democratic search

all evidence in court can be used and let to court decide the punishment

flag burning constitutional

Flag burning is legal due to the protection the First Amendment offers to “symbolic speech”

Federal government can regulate to include

anything in economic activity

When congress is creating a bill, people are polling on what you think about it, what is does congress focus on

The language used

How do presidents rely on power of persuasion?

Presidents rely on persuasion by using it to bargain and persuade others that what they want is in their best interest,

Earliest immigration group to alter the scope of civil rights in USA

Irish Catholics

According to text, block grants have only enjoyed marginal success

federal government increased the number of strings attached

How many legislative courts

13 courts of appeal in the federal judicial system

Review Brown vs Board of Education

Segregation in schools and segregation is unconstitutional.

Which principle deals with culture and what Americans hold us accountable

Individual responsibility

Sovereignty

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Real work of congress done

in the committees

This rebellion happened in 1786

Shays rebellion

Who did the Framers say would be the best judge of people’s interests?

Elected officials

Bully Pulpit

The president’s use of prestige and visibility to guide or mobilize the American public