Final Examination Review
You must be familiar with the following:
- ‘uncontrollable spending’
 - “cooperative federalism”
 - “critical elections”
 - “fiscal federalism”
 - “horse-race journalism”
 - “wall of separation”
 - amicus curiae
 - appointment of Supreme Court justices
 - Bill of Rights
 - block grants
 - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
 - Bureau of the Census
 - cabinet
 - categorical grants
 - characteristics of partisans and activists
 - checks and balances
 - checks on the power of the federal courts
 - Civil Rights Act of 1866
 - civil service
 - commerce clause
 - committees of the House of Representatives
 - committees of the Senate
 - comparison of national convention delegates to population at large
 - Congress
 - congressional committees
 - Congressional redistricting
 - Constitutional amendments
 - continuing appropriations
 - core values of United States political culture
 - discretion in establishing policy by states and localities
 - discretionary appropriations
 - distributive benefits
 - division of powers among the three branches of government
 - Dred Scott decision
 - effect of replacing the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution of 1787
 - electoral behavior in the United States
 - electoral college process
 - electoral system
 - Emancipation Proclamation
 - executive orders
 - expansion of the power of the national government
 - Federal Election Commission
 - federal election laws?
 - federal poll tax
 - filibusters
 - First Amendment
 - Fourteenth Amendment history
 - franking privilege
 - gerrymandering and its effects
 - grants-in-aid
 - House Rules Committee
 - incorporation
 - Influences on Supreme Court opinions
 - interpretation of Constitutional amendments
 - Interpretation of data about party identification
 - Interpretation of data about voting behavior
 - interpretation of data from a table
 - judicial nominations
 - legislative veto
 - line-item veto
 - Lobbyists attempts at influence
 - matching funds
 - Miranda v. Arizona
 - nominations requiring Senate confirmation
 - organization of the two major political parties
 - original intent
 - party realignment
 - Plessy v. Ferguson
 - Political action committees (PAC’s)
 - political socialization of children
 - powers of the President
 - President
 - Presidential elections in which the winner received less than a majority
 - presidential veto history
 - principal staff for the President
 - procedure for formally amending the United States Constitution
 - project grants
 - protection of the rights of those accused of committing a crime
 - revenue bills
 - review all treaties that alter previously established foreign policy
 - right of citizens to hear arms
 - Roe V. Wade
 - Roles of the President
 - similarities and differences between the House of Representatives and the Senate
 - single-member districts, definition and effects
 - Slaughterhouse cases
 - state legislatures
 - Supreme Court appointments
 - Supreme Court practices
 - tax expenditures
 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964
 - The Federalist
 - The right of citizens to petition the government for redress of grievances
 - The Voting Rights Act of 1965
 - trends in presidential approval ratings is supported by information presented in the graph above?
 - unfunded mandates
 - voting behavior
 - voting patterns
 - White House Office
 - White primary elections
 
Interpret the following:
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