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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