Gov Final

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Primary Work of Congress?

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Representation

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Amendment changed how Senators were elected?

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17

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Typical characteristics of a senator

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Still older white male protestant

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Why are Congressmen not regarded as Career?

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most of them come from other lines of occupations

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Where does real leadership in Senate rest?

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Majority leader

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Most important position in house?

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Speaker of the house

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Most important feature of Congress is?

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making law

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All bills raising revenue must originate where?

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House of Representatives

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Policy gridlock is result of?

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bipartisanship

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Framers suggested the president be selected by?

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The political audience in Washington

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This Amendment limits the president to two terms

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22nd

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In Federalist 78, Alexander Hamilton described the judicial branch as the ________ branch.

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Least involved branch/ least dangerous

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Why was McCulloch v. Maryland so significant?

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In this case, the Supreme Court held that Congress has implied powers derived from those listed in Article I, Section 8. The “Necessary and Proper” Clause

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During the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the New Deal, the dominant issue that the Supreme Court faced was that of?

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Civil rights, personal liberty, social equality

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The two kinds of lower federal courts created to handle cases that need not be decided by the Supreme Court are?

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Constitutional courts and Legislative courts- District Courts and Court of Appeals

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There are ____ U.S. District Courts.

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94

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Certiorari is a Latin word meaning, roughly,

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Made more certain

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Most of the welfare policies in the United States have attempted to do what?

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majoritarian type of program, especially for those in need

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Of the thirteen major wars fought by this country, ____ have followed a formal declaration of war by Congress.

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6

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What role has the Supreme Court played in foreign affairs?

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Primarily stayed out

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The War Powers Act of 1973 was designed as a check on the?

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Presidents can’t declare war

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What War more than any other did public support dissolve the fastest?

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Vietnam

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What does “rally ‘round the flag” refer to?

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Nationalism patriotic

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Foreign policy leaders are more likely to adopt a ______________ outlook than members of the general public.

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elitus

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When did the U.S. adopt a “containment” philosophy?

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After WWII

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What are the four views of American foreign policy?

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Isolationism, containment, Disengagement, protecting human rights

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The text suggests is a “lesson” that we have learned when it comes to rebuilding nations?-

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You can’t leave a country too early, and if you’re going to rebuild a nation, it doesn’t mean it’s going to work

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American bureaucracy is complex because?

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There are so many different organizations in our government is is hard to oversee, competition, even when working with each other it's difficult to get together and accomplish things. authority is divided among several managing institutions

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The bureaucracy of American government today is largely a product of which two event

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The depression and WWII

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Which of the following is described by the text as imposing constraint on bureaucracy?

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There are so many procedures you have to go through

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The political ideology of a presidential appointee is important because she or he?

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affects how the laws are interpreted

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How would one describe government bureaucracy today?

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Complex, majoritarian

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What is client politics?

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elitus, specific

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How was the Department of Defense created?-

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The Dept. of Defense was created by the National Security Act of 1947 by combining the Depts. of War and Navy and was called the National Military Establishment

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Which of the following is the most important consideration in evaluating the power of a Bureaucracy?

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the amount of discretionary authority that its officials have

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An example of a policy characterized by distributed benefits and distributed costs is?

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increased Social Security benefits

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Describe Majoritarian policies.

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tend to reflect matters of cost or ideology

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What is entrepreneurial politics?

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Political activity in which benefits are distributed, costs are concentrated

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The theory that the political system always operates to serve corporate interests is called?

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Marxist

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Fee shifting enables the plaintiff to?

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collect costs from the defendant if the defendant loses

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Greatest Source of presidential power is found in?

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Not in the Constitution, but in politics and public opinion. Since the 1930s, Congress has passed laws that confer broad grants of authority to the executive branch, leaving it up to the president and his deputies to define the regulations and programs that will actually be put into effect.