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29 Cards in this Set
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Cost-Benefit Self Interest
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Considers the fact that people have other things going on in their lives. They have many goals and want to achieve many goals. But because we are limited we have to choose. Madison failed to consider that there are costs to participating.
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Confederal System of Government
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Stronger states
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Fundamental Freedoms Doctrine
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Principle that some constitutional provisions (freedoms) speech, press) ought to be given special preference because they are basic to the functioning of democratic society.
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Limitations on Free Expression
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Commercial speech, obscenity, Libel
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Sound bite
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A piece of film/audio that shows candidate speaking in his own words.
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Full Faith and Credit Clause
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Public acts, records are recognized in all states.
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Separation of Powers
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A system of government in which different institutions exercise the different components of governmental power.
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Brown V. Board of Education
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declared racial segregation unconstitutional.
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De Jure Segregation
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Legal separation of the races practiced in the south. Was said by court to violate equal protection clause.
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Plessy V. Ferguson
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Separate but equal doctrine. Blank his inability to use white facilities denied him equal protection before the law.
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Agenda Setting
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When the media affect the issues and problems people think about, even if the media do not determine what position people adopt.
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Values
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Fundamental enduring standards for what is desirable.
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Single-Issue Voters
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Voters who care so deeply about some particular issue that their votes are determined by a candidate's position on this one side issue.
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Categorical Grants
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Federal grants to a state and or local government that impose programmatic restrictions on the use of funds.
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Right of Privacy
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Right to be free of government interference in aspects of personal life that don't affect others.
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Equal Protection Clause
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No state can deny any of its people equal protection under the law.
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Poll Tax
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A fee that allows people to vote.
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Equality of Condition
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Rewards people who are undeserving at the expense of those who work harder.
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Establishment of Religion Clause
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Denies the government the power to establish any single religious practice as superior.
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Free Exercise of Religion Clause
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Protects the right of individuals to practice their religion without government interference.
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Civil Rights Amendments
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-13th/ Abolished Slavery
-14th. Guaranteed equal protection and due process. -15th. Guaranteed voting rights to African American men. |
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Ideology
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System of beliefs in which one or more organizing principles connect an individual's view on a wide range of particular issue.
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Framing
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the way in which opinions about an issue can be altered by emphasizing or de-emphasizing particular facets of that issue.
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Dual Sovereignty
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A theory of federalism saying that both the national and state governments have final authority over their own policy domains.
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Fairness Doctrine
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Any issue that refers to the public has to be discussed in a fair and balanced way.
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Reconstruction
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A period after the civil war when southern states were subject to a federal military force.
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Black Codes
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Restrictive laws that applied to newly freed slaves but not to whites.
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Equality of Opportunity
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Everyone should have a fair chance, after competition starts the best person should win.
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Characteristics of Public Opinion
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Uninformed opinions expressed in politics are not strongly held not ideological, inconsistent.
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