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| Membership in House of Representatives is based on(per state) |
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| Membership in Senate is based on(per state) |
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| 2 members per state regardless of population |
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| Differences between House and Senate |
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House: speaker of the house, majority and minority leaders, whips, revenue bills start in house
Senate: Vice president and majority leader, confirmation of presidential appointees to judgeshipps and to cabinet positions must occur in the senate. |
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| What are the duties of Congess? |
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Writing and passing federal laws
Regulating interstate commerce,
communication and transportation
regulating the US Mint and the money supply
creating appellate and lower courts.
Declaring war on foreign countries. |
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| What are the reasons we have committees? |
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| Divide workload, develop specialties in areas of interest |
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| What motivates a member of Congress to apply for membership in a certain committee? |
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| powerful committee, reelection, policymaking interest , experience, to shape their political career |
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| Why is majority standing so important for each party in Congress? |
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| they can pass bills and laws much easier without resistance |
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| How does a bill become a law? Know the general process.. |
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1. Someone tells their idea to legislator
2. Bill waits in docket intil it's introduced to either house or senate
3. Bill is assigned a number, and is then sent to a special committee. This committee will revise it, and sometimes send it to a smaller committee.
4. The committee chooses a day for Congress to hear the bill if it's deemed well enough.
5. It's then revised and changed as necessary.
6. The house of Reps will either reject or approve the bill, and the senate does the same.
7. once it is a pproved by both, it becomes enrolled, nd the engrossed version of the bill is then sent to the white house for pres. to look over
8. the pres. can then either sign the bill into law, or veto it
9. if vetoed by the pres. congress can override the veto. if congess decides to do this, 2/3 of the members of congress, or 357 members must approve this
10. if 2/3 of congress agrees, then the bill is a law. |
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| Enumerated vs. implied powers |
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| Enumerated are drawn out in the constitution,found in article 1 section 8 of the united states constitution implied are extrapolated out of statements made in the constitution. |
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| What is bicameral legislature? |
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| there are two (bi) chambers |
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| Why was the senate designed to take its time to deliberate legislation? |
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| So it was not so swayed by the tides of emotion that can arise from the sea of the populous |
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| How does the veto process work? |
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| passed bill by house and senate is sent to pres. to be signed, he may veto. if he didn't within 10 days it becomes a law. not signing a bill will veto it via pocket veto if and only if congress is going out of session but it's a constitutionally un override able veto. A returned bill has o be reconsidered but 2/3 is needed to override the veto. |
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| What is the role of the president in the Constitution. |
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| Functions of president in times of emergency |
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| Commander and chief, able to respond swiftly and with one voice as opposed to Congress which takes time to deliberate. |
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| War making powers controversy/war powers act |
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| Congress can declare war in constitution, but president often informally begins military actions via his commander in chief role. War powers act attempted to correct what congress and the american public saw as excessive war-making powers in the hands of the president. |
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| Power to declare war is not an ............... |
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| express presidential power |
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| powers spelled out in the constitution |
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| powers over and beyond those explicitly spelled out in the constitution or which can reasonably be implied from express grants. |
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| How can the president be removed from office? |
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| What precedents did first President George Washington set? |
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| Presidential powers including appointment of SC justices; process of appointing justices includes Senate hearing and confirmation. Two term presidency, the title president |
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| How are justices appointed? |
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| the pres. moninates new members to the supreme court, but the senate must approve the nomination by a majority vote. this is part of the system of check and balances that is supposed to prevent abuse of power. Pres. has power to nominate and appoint judges of the supreme court. thus the president nominates but does not appoint justices of the supreme court. actual appointment occurs only after senate confirmation. |
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| How long to justices serve/can they serve in good behavior? |
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| a justice serves for life. However, they may retire if they wish. They can also be impeached and removed from the court if they do not maintain good behavior. |
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| What is judicial review? know the definition and the supreme court case that originated the practice. |
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Judicial review is the power of the courts to review the constitutionality of a statute or treaty.
Marbury v. Madison : supreme court ruled that the fed. courts have the duty to review the constitutionality of acts of congress and to declare them void when they are contrary to the constitution. |
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| Why is judicial review sometimes controversial? |
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| it was made before the constitution existed. |
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| what is a Writ of Certiorari? |
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| A request to the Supreme Court to review a lower court case |
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| What is a Majority Opinion? |
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| When the majority of justices write an opinion on an issue and that opinion is the one that prevails. |
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| What is a dissenting opinion? |
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| The other justices who disagreed with the majority opinion sometimes write a dissenting opinion to express their disagreements (dissent) |
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| What is a concurring opinion? |
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| When justices agree with the ultimate decision made by the majority, but disagree as to the reasons why they came to that ultimate decision. |
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| What cases reach the supreme court? |
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| Ones that show the weakness in laws or are open to interpretation, ones that are in the gray area. |
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| What is the jurisdiction of the supreme court? |
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Appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and state court cases involving issues of federal law
original juristiction over a small range of cases. which is power to hear a case for the first time, as opposed to appelate when a court has the power to reiew a lower courts decision |
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| A right to be released from imprisonment after a unlawful arrest. |
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| What is an interest group and how does it differ from a political party? |
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| a group that is determined to encourage or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be eleted. a collection of like-minded individuals, businesses or corporations seeking common goals. |
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| What are some criticisms of interest group's involvement in the American political progress? |
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| Special interest groups, who are lobbying in congress, influence the decisions of congressmen. Buy votes or purchasing access |
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| consumes a resource without paying for it. |
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| influencing or persuading public officials to take a desired action, usually to pass or defeat legislation. |
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| What are some benefits that members of interest groups gain from joining? |
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| The ablity to speak with on louder voice and be heard more clearly than one could accomplish on their own. |
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| What is civic engagement? |
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| individual volunteerism to organizational involvement to electoral participation. sence of personal responsibility individuals should feel to uphold their obligations as part of any community |
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| Definition of social capital and examples. |
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Placing value on social relations and your social network. this value translates to advantages that are educational, social and cultural
ex. the farmer and the store owner; a group you joined allows for you to meet people with an interest in common |
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| how do we build social capital? |
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| by joining groups, and engaging in social activities with other, and having friends. |
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| How does social capital work? Norms of reciprocity. know what those are. |
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| What is Bridging SC vs. Bonding SC benefits of each |
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| Social capital is about the value of social networks, bonding similar people and bridging between diverse people, with norms of reciprocity |
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| Why is social capital important for democracy? |
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| Democracy is mounted on the idea that people have control and the best way for people to take advantage of that power is in numbers. Having groups sub groups and diverse bridging of social capital will also lend to an exacting responsiveness of the democracy. |
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| What is a political party? |
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| A broad coalition of individuals organized to win elections to enact commonly supported set of public policies |
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| How is political part different from interest grou? |
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| a group of individuals that try to influence public policy to benefit themselves. |
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| What are the three main elements of any political party? |
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Party in electorate
Party in Government
Party as an organization |
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| How do the majority of americans identify, ideologically? are most extremely liberal or extremely conservative? if not, then how do they describe themselves? |
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| Why do candidates tend to be more extreme ideoligically during the primary season? |
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| How does a candidate's campaigning change during the general election versus the primary? |
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| What were the first two political parties in america? |
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| federalist and antifederalist |
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| examples of third parties |
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| green party, liberty party, american party |
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| why do the two dominant parties have an advantage in the american electoral system? |
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| Median voter theorem, only the plurality of votes and not a pure majority is needed. two party systems encourages debate. |
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| set of consistent political beliefs |
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| unit rule, if you win the primary for the state you get all the states delegates. |
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| hold no strong views about the involvement gov. should have |
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| believe private efforts are more likely to improve lives, government should shapte personal choices? |
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| have faith in gov. divers life style |
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Essay:
a) Name great pres.
b)3 reasons to support claim |
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Jimmy Carter
encourages energy conservation
champion of human rights |
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Essay: a)
What is a presidential signing statement? |
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| Written remarks that reflect the presiden't interpretation of the law that are not required or authorized by the constitution. Two types constitutional or non constitutuional |
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Essay b)
Which president issued more signing statements than any other in history at 750? |
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| Essay c) Why, as explained by the New York Times mag. article "the imperial presidency," the boston globe series by charlie savage and the frontline doc. cheneys law were/are members of congress and legal scholars conerned about the use of the signing statement? |
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| THe executive seems to have too much legilative power via the signing statements which themselves wield priority. |
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| Essay d) What are arguments in support of this power? |
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| that future pres. need to have a check on legislature. the ultimate goal for cheney is that the pres. needs to be more of the authority. this would all allow for more responsiveness on behalf of the white house to the american people. |
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Essay Robert putnum defines social capital and argues why it is important for democracy in his book bowling alone
a) what is putnam's argument regarding trends in social capital in america?
b)what evidence does he use to support his argument regarding political participation, civi participation and religious participation?
c) do you agree with his claim? why or why not? |
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a) political participation was supported by voter turnout throughout a number of decades.
b) civic participation was supported by group and club memberships thougout a number of decades
b ctd) Religious participation was supported by congregation memberhsip not the turn out at worhip
c) He made up social capital its his own theory. that being said, from what we have read he never mentioned population size and the effects on social behavior which would lead to decline in joining groups of any sort because we naturally feel like our voice is heard. |
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