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46 Cards in this Set
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That which is written by humans and accepted over time is called what?
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Positive Law
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Why was the Cold War referred to as 'cold'?
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It was based more on mistrust and tension between countries then a heated, armed battle between soldiers
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Medicare was created to help provide medical care for what group of people?
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Ages 65+
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What is a market that has gone too high?
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Bubble
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What would you call an imagined and idealized perfect system
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Utopia
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Who is the person that complains in a law case?
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Plaintiff
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Who were the only two presidents who got impeached in U.S. history?
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Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton
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According to the book, which of the following are not categorized as a type of violence?
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Terrorism
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There are four types of national interests, which of the following is NOT one of then?
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Secondary versus permanent
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What does WMD stand for?
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Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Aid to Families with Dependent Children was replaced in 1996 with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program by _______ and the Republican majority in Congress.
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Bill Clinton
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A government mandate is defined as what?
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A law passed by a higher level of government that requires a lower level of government to take specific actions.
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Groups the people are born into such as religions and tribes are what?
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Primordial
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Taking one thing as a model for another is what?
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Analogy
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What does WASP stand for?
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White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
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What is an appeal?
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Taking a case to higher court
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Which president was very hands-off?
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Preseident Reagan
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Interactions among states are called what?
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International relations
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What is it called when a detainee protests innocence before a judge?
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Habeas Corpus
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Our court system consists of how many judicial structures?
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51
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ACCR: The U.N. remains largely a "talking shop" because it lacks what?
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Enforcement Powers
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The League of Nations tried to implement what type of agreement?
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collective security
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Percentage of voters switching parties from one election to the next is called what?
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Swing
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What is the right to vote?
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Franchise
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What is the major political malfunction or instability?
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System Breakdown
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What kind of theory focuses on individuals?
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Micro
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What term is used to descrive a long term voter attachment to a given party?
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Party identification
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Term used to describe that which grows out of countries basic documents?
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Constitutional Laws
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What year did Germany unify under Prussian leadership?
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1871
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ATTR: What does DOE stand for?
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Department of Energy
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What is a bureaucracy?
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The career civil service service the staffs government executive agencies
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What are legal decisions based on earlier decisions?
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Precedent
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What was the baby boom?
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The big generation of Americans born from 1946 to 1964.
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What is a dysanalogy?
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Showing that once things a poor model for another
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What is the term used to refer to people who are educated and think deeply about things?
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Intellectual
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What is the term used for a sudeen replacement of an old system by a new one?
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Revolution
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What is a stock market that keeps rising?
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Bull Market
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What is the Persian term for used for a king?
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Shah
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What kind of change causes the most unrest in a country going through modernization?
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Economic Change
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The Cold War created what kind of system between the U.S. and the Soviets?
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Bipolar
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ATTR: What party is run by a few political professionals?
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Cadre Party
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ATTR: What is being broken up into unreasonably small parts?
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Balkanization
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What countries border Indonesia?
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Malaysia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea
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ATTR: single-member districts with "plurality win" tend to produce __________ party systems.
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Two-
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All bills for raising revenue:
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must originate fin the House of Representatives
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ATTR: Legislatures nowadays ________ laws, but few of them _________ laws.
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draft, pass
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