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War Powers Act
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1973;president is limited in deployment of troops overseas to sixty-day period in peacetime Congress explicitly gives its approval for a longer period
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groups that influence foreign policy
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Congressional Leadership
Congressional Oversight Treaties and Executive Agreements Appointments Appropriations |
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grouping of the U.S. armed forces and defense industries
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Access to technical expertise and political information
Share many interests Personal and professional relationships are close Military and defense industry officials work closely with legislators and their staffs. |
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Key participants in foreign and military policy formulation and implementation
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Reporting and investigation
Agenda setting Influencing public opinion |
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Some scholars suggest that public opinion on issues of foreign affairs and defense has two dimensions resulting in four opinion groups.
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Militarism/nonmilitarism
Isolationism/internationalism |
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Generally more interested in what affairs?
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domestic rather than foreign affairs
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Elections are a means to express
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approval or disapproval of existing policy
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Public Action
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Example of widespread resistance to the draft during the Vietnam War
May work through nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) such as Amnesty International |
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who is promoting democracy in middle east?
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Afghanistan
iraq |
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transnational threats to peace
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nuclear proliferation
rouge states |
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Social Contract Theory states that
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Citizens give their consent to be governed
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right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. who says that?
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john locke
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Direct democracies are characterized by
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Citizen decision-making and majority rule
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3/5th compromise?
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That each slave would count as three-fifths of one person for the purpose of calculating state representation in the House of Representatives
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In indirect democracies, or republics, public policies are determined by
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Elected representatives
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A coherent set of values and beliefs about the purpose and scope of government is normally called
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An ideology
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Why Sugar Tax of 1764
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pay for French Indian War
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How did Great Britain respond to the Boston Tea Party?
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The Parliament enacted a law which blockaded Boston Harbor
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first formal American system of government
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Articles of Confederation
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Common Sense, advocated the
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Idea of independence from Britain and that government of our own is a natural right
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Under the Articles of Confederation, executive authority was
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Virtually nonexistent
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significance of Shay’s Rebellion was that it
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Convinced the nation’s leadership that the Articles of Confederation were too weak
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Virginia plan presented at the Constitutional Convention called for a national system featuring
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strong central government with a bicameral legislature
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The smaller states presented an alternative plan at the Convention
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New Jersey Plan
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16. The most serious disagreement between the large and the small states at the Convention was over the issue of
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Representation in the new Congress
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government in which power is divided between the national and state governments is called
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federal system
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government’s primary lawmaking authority rests with
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Congress
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meaning of the Supremacy Clause found in the Constitution
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Legitimate federal laws supersede state laws when they conflict
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Those who favored ratification of the newly drafted Constitution
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Federalist
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series of 85 papers written by Madison
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Federalist Papers
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Anti-Federalists were concerned that the new Constitution did not protect individual liberties. How was this concern addressed
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With the ratification of the Bill of Rights
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federal, state and local governments are part of this country’s
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Federal System
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type of government derives all of its powers from states
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confederation
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: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
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The 10th Amendment to the Constitution
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How are local governments established
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Under the authority of state governments
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McCulloch v. Maryland continues to be important today because:
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enabled Congress to use the necessary and proper clause to expand national government power
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Court ruled in the Plessy v. Ferguson case that
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Racial segregation was constitutional
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Cooperative federalism
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stronger national government
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needed to preserve life, liberty and
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Private property
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Democracies described as governments that
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Give power to the people either directly or indirectly
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Second Continental Congress most famous for
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Approving the Resolution of Independence from Great Britain
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The lack of a strong central government caused
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economic turmoil
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bill of rights found in
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first 10 amendments
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the Incorporation Doctrine
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a. The due process clause of the 14th Amendment requires states to abide by the provisions of the Bill of Rights
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establishment clause prohibits
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the adoption of an official national religion
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1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states
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Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech or of the press
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39. The constitutional doctrine that government cannot prohibit speech or publication before the fact is called
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prior restraint
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Where is the right to privacy specifically mentioned in the U.S. Constitution?
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it's not
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Roe v. Wade was about right to
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privacy
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Where does the U.S. Constitution discuss equality
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14th amendment
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48. The NAACP’s first target in its efforts to overturn segregation in the South and elsewhere concerned
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Professional and graduate schools
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