Index of Government
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4th Amendment Search and Seizure
5th and 6th Amendment / Due Process
Article 1 Section 8 / Enumerated Powers of Congress
Benchmark / tracking polls
Big Government (Regulations) v Small Government (De-regulations / Private Property)
Bully Pulpit / How Modern Presidents talk to American People
Bureaucracy power over other branches – writing regulation, issuing fines, testifying before Congress
Bureaucratic Neutrality
Bureaucratic Specialization
Cabinet Level Departments
Candidate Centered Campaigns
Chance for Participation 15th Amendments, 17th Amendments, 19th Amendments, 24th Amendments, and 26th Amendments
Chief role of the Federal Judiciary
Citizens United v Federal Election Commissions
Civil Liberties
Civil Service
Cloture
Commerce and Slave Trade Compromises
Commerce Clause
Committee Hearings
Committee of the Whole
Compromise on importation of slaves
Concurrent Powers of State and National Governments
Condition in aid grants
Confederate Government
Conference Committees
Confirmation Process
Congressional Oversight / Compliance Monitoring
Cooperative Federalism
Critical realignment elections
Cruel and Unusual Punishment / 8th Amendment
Data Management Technology
Debate over the role of the central government after 911
Debt
Deficit
Delegate Voting
Delegated / Bureaucratic Discretion
Delegated Powers
Delegates
Democracy
Democratic (Liberal Platforms)
Demographic Coalitions
Department of Education
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Transportation
Department of Veteran Affairs
Dictatorships
Direct Democracy
Discharge petition
Discretionary Spending
Divided Government
Division of Powers
Duties and Responsibilities of Citizenship
Effects of family, peers, media, civic and religious organizations on Political Culture
Effects of family, peers, media, civic and religious organizations on Political Socialization
Effects of globalization on political culture
Election Cycles
Electoral College
Elitist Democracy
English Bill of Rights
Entrance Polls
Environmental Protection Agency
Equal Protection Clause
Equality of Opportunity
Establishment Clause
Exclusive Powers
Exclusive Powers of the State and National Governments
Executive Agreements
Executive Orders
Executive Power
Exit Polls
Expressed / Formal Powers of Executive Branch
Expressed or enumerated powers of Congress Art 1 Sect 8
Expressed powers
Extradition
Factors that influence voters choice: party, modern issues, religion, gender, race, and ethnicity
Federal Election Commission
Federal Government
Federal Reserve
Federalist Paper No. 10
Federalist Paper No. 51
Federalist Paper no. 70.
Federalist Paper no. 78
Filibuster
First Continental Congress
Focus Groups
Formal Powers of President
Framers
Free Enterprise
Free Exercise Clause
Full Faith and Credit Clause
Funded Mandates
Fundraising for Campaign
Generational differences on political culture
Gerrymandering
Government
Government Corporations
Great Compromise / Connecticut Compromise
Holds
Horse Race Journalism
How polls are influenced public opinions
Identification of Respondents
Implied Powers
Incumbency advantage phenomenon
Independent Regulatory Agencies / Commissions
Indirect Democracy
Individual Liberty v Order
Influences of Presidential Elections through Open Primaries, Closed Primaries, Caucuses, Party Conventions, Congressional Elections / State Elections and electoral college
Informal Powers of President
Inherent Powers
Interstate Compacts
Issue Networks / Iron Triangle
Joint Committees
Judicial activism versus judicial restraint
Judicial Appointments
Judicial Power
Keynesian Theory v Supply Side Economics
Lame Duck / Lame Duck Amendment
Legislative Power
Liberal (Privacy Rights w/ government) v Conservative (Individual Freedom w/out government)
Limitations of interest groups – Inequality of resources, unequal access to decision makers, free riders.
Linkage Institutions: Parties, Interest Groups, Elections, Media
Litmus tests
Logrolling / Reciprocity
Majority Rule
Malapportionment
Malice
Mandatory Spending / Entitlements
Marbury v Madison
Mass Survey
McCain Feingold / Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act
McDonald v Chicago
Merit System
Miranda Rule
Mount Vernon
Multiple Access Points in Federal Structure / 3 branches
National Organization for Women
Natural Rights / Social Contract
Necessary and Proper Clause / Elastic Clause
New York Times v United States
Oligarchy
Opinion Polls
Parliamentary Government
Participatory Democracy
Party Line Voting
Party Polarization in Congress
Patriot Act – Limitations on 4th Amendment
Pendleton Act
Petition of Right
Pigeonholing
Pluralists Democracy
Political Action Committees (PAC’s)
Political Party Functions: platforms, recruitment, campaign management, committee party legislature.
Political Patronage
Politico Voting
Pork Barrel / Earmark Spending
Power Congress has over Bureaucracy
Power of the Purse
Powers Bureaucracy has over Congress
Powers exclusive to House
Powers exclusive to Senate
Precedent
Presidential Government
Presidential Agenda Setting
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Pro-Life / Right to Life Movement
Procedures on voting
Professional Campaign Consultant
Project Grants
Proprietary Colonies
Prospective Voting
Public Policies
Ratification
Rational Choice Voting
Reasons for expanding power of the President
Reasons why Bureaucracy sometimes conflict with the President
Redistricting
Reliability of polls
Representation of House Population
Representation of Senate Equal Representations
Representative Government
Republican (Conservative Platforms)
Reserved Powers
Retrospective Voting
Revenue Sharing
Right to Privacy as it relates to Due Process
Roe v Wade (Majority v Dissenting Opinion)
Role of Committee Chairpersons
Role of Party Whips
Role of President of the Senate
Role of Speaker of the House
Role of the Grand Committee
Royal Colonies
Rule of Law
Rules Committee in House
Sampling Errors
Sampling Techniques
Schenck v US
Second Amendment and 4th Amendment - Liberty v Order
Second Continental Congress
Security and Exchange Commission
Select Committees
Selective Incorporation
Shays Rebellion
Signing Statements
Single Issue Interest Groups
Sovereignty
Stamp Act of Congress
Standing Committees
Stare Decisis
State
State Constitutions
State of Union
State Reserved Powers
State Voter Registration Laws
Structural barriers to 3rd parties
Supremacy Clause
Symbolic Speech
The Exclusionary Rule
The Impeachment process
The Supreme Court and Federalism
Thirteen Colonies
Three-fifths Compromise
Time and Place Doctrine
Tinker v Des Moines
Trustee Voting
Type and format of Questions
Unanimous Consent
Unfunded Mandates
Unicameral
Unified Government
Unitary Government
USA Freedom Act – Expansion of 4th Amendment
Using social media in campaigns
Veto Message
Ways Congress can limit the power of the court
Ways Presidents can limit power of the court
Weakness of Articles of Confederation
White House Staff / Principal Staffers of President / West Wing