PSCI 210.01 Exam 1 Study Guide Questions with Correct Answers
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PSCI 210.01 Exam 1 Study Guide Questions with Correct Answers
Social Contract - Answer-Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Groups should work together for social benefits, (i.e. Sacrificing individual freedoms for state protections, etc)
Political Culture - Answer-A patterned ...
PSCI 210.01 Exam 1 Study Guide
Questions with Correct Answers
Social Contract - Answer-Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Groups should work together for social benefits, (i.e. Sacrificing individual freedoms for
state protections, etc)
Political Culture - Answer-A patterned and sustained way of thinking about how political
and economic life ought to be carried out.
Federalism - Answer-Government authority shared by national and local governments.
Political Ideology - Answer-A more or less consistent set of beliefs about what policies
government ought to pursue.
Political Efficacy - Answer-Citizen's faith in the government
Interest Group - Answer-An organization of people sharing a common interest or goal
that seeks to influence public policy.
PACs - Answer-Interest groups
Lobbying - Answer-A strategy by which organized interest groups seek to influence the
passage of legislation by exerting direct pressure on members of the legislature.
Federalist Papers and Federalist #10 - Answer-Series of newspaper articles, written by
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, designed to address any objection
that the people made to the Constitution in order to get support
The Revolving Door - Answer-Movement of personnel between roles as legislators and
regulators and the industries affected by the legislation and regulation
Iron Triangle - Answer-A close relationship between an agency, a congressional
committee, and an Interest group.
Supremacy Clause - Answer-Article VI of the Constitution, which makes national law
supreme over state law when the national government is acting within its constitutional
limits.
Elastic Clause - Answer-Power of Congress: "Make all laws which shall be necessary
and proper for carrying into execution the fore-going powers, and all other powers
, vested by this constitution in the government of the united states." This "necessary and
proper" clause has been generously interpreted by the supreme court.
Shay's Rebellion - Answer-A 1787 rebellion in which ex-Revolutionary
War soldiers attempted to prevent foreclosures of farms
as a result of high interest rates and taxes.
Dual Federalism - Answer-Doctrine holding that the national
government is supreme in its sphere, the states are
supreme in theirs, and the two spheres should be kept
separate.
Implied Powers - Answer-Powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution and
derived from the "Necessary and Proper" or "Elastic" clause.
Articles of Confederation - Answer-A weak constitution that governed america during
the revolutionary war.
Mapp v Ohio - Answer-(1961) Evidence illegally gathered by the police may not be used
in a criminal trial.
Clear and Present Danger Test - Answer-Law should not punish speech unless there
was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions
Establishment Clause - Answer-First amendment ban on laws "respecting an
establishment of religion."
Free-Exercise Clause - Answer-First amendment requirement that law cannot prevent
free exercise of religion.
Miller v. California - Answer-(1973) Obscenity defined as appealing to prurient interests
of an average person with materials that lack literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Jim Crow Laws - Answer-Racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 in
the United States at the state and local level.
Probable Cause - Answer-Reasonable cause for issuing a search war-rant or making an
arrest; more than mere suspicion.
1964 Civil Rights Act - Answer-Prohibits sex discrimination in the hiring, firing, and
compensation of employees.
Regents of Univ. of CA v Bakke - Answer-(1978) In a confused set of rival opinions, the
decisive vote was cast by justice powell, who said that a quota-like ban on bakke's
admission was unconstitutional but that "diversity" was a legitimate goal that could be
pursued by taking race into account.
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