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| Six stages of policy making process |
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Agenda building identification
Access and representation
Policy formulation
Policy adoption and legitimation
Policy implementation
Policy evaluation |
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| Agenda building identification |
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Process through which issues become matters of public concern and government action
Defining that we have an issue |
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| Access and representation |
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Gaining access to elected or administrative officials
Getting them to see the problem |
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Development of strategies for dealing with the problems of the official policy agenda
Solutions to fix the problem |
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| Policy adoption or legitimation |
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The official decision of a government body to accept a particular policy to resolve the issue identified
Law debated and passed |
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The stage of the policy process in which policies are carried out.
Putting new law into action |
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Assessment of policy. Did it work?
AAR |
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| Democracy definition and origin |
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Political system that permits citizens to play a significant part in the governmental process
Derived from Greek practice |
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| System that permits citizens to vote directly on laws and policies |
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| (Republic) a system of government in which the populace selects representatives |
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| Political authority rests ultimately in the hands of the people |
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Majority rule
Minority rights |
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Preference of majority
Consideration for minority |
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Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness?
Personal freedom
Economic freedom
Protection against tyranny |
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| Citizens must possess political knowledge |
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| Good that one persons consumption of good doesn’t limit others. Available to everyone. |
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| Reasons for Declaration of Independence |
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Taxation (Sugar act 1764, Stamp act 1765)
New England merchants, southern planters, royalists, shop keepers, artisans, laborers, small farmers all hurting from British interests |
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| Why was the Declaration of Independence philosophical and how did it view human rights |
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| Certain rights called “unalienable” including life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness could not abridged by governments |
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| Articles of confederation |
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First written constitution
Limited powers of central government. Based entirely on Congress central government. Congress had little power. States held most power |
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| Declared independence year |
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| Ratified articles of confederation year |
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| Rewrote constitution year |
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| Ratified constitution year |
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Virginia plan
New Jersey plan
Great compromise
3/5 compromise |
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Revised system of representation based upon population of each state.
Second chamber of the legislature |
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| Called for equal representation in the national legislature regardless of population |
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| Great compromise (Connecticut compromise) |
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| First chamber of Congress the House of Representatives, the reps would be apportioned according to the population of each state. But second chamber, the senate, each state would have equal representation |
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| House of representative votes based on population would only count 3/5s of slave as one as population count |
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Strong central government.
Prevent excessive democracy.
Emphasize the ideas that generate public support.
Restrain federal government from impinging on liberties and property rights.
Create a document that could last forever |
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| Property owners, creditors, merchants. Elites were fit to govern. Strong national government |
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| Alexander Hamilton, james Madison, George Washington |
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| Small farmers, frontiersmen, debtors, shopkeepers, some state government officials. Believed government should be closer to the people, feared elite power, favored retention of power by state governments. |
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| Who were anti federalists |
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| Patrick Henry, George mason, Eldridge Gerry, George Clinton |
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| How many states were necessary to ratify the constitution? |
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| The division of powers and functions between the national government and the state governments. |
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| How many votes needed to amend constitution |
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2/3 of Congress
3/4 of states |
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| A centralized government system in which lower levels of government have little power independent of the national government |
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| A system of government in which states retain sovereign authority except for the powers expressly delegated to the national government |
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| A system of government in which power is divided, by a constitution, between the central (national) government and regional (state) governments |
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| The system of government that prevailed in the United States from 1789 to 1937 in which most fundamental government powers were shared between the federal and state governments |
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| A federal system was necessary to____ |
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| Share powers between national and state governments to avoid tyranny, power abuse...etc. |
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| A type of federalism existing since the new deal era in which grants in aid have been used strategically to encourage states and localities(without commanding them) to pursue nationally defined goals; also known as “intergovernmental cooperation” |
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| Law of congress is supreme law of land, known as supremacy clause |
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Reserved clause
“The powers not delegated to the US by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people |
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“The comity clause “
States cannot discriminate against other state citizens |
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| Programs through which congress provides money to state and local governments on the condition that the funds be employed for purposes defined by the federal government |
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| Federal grants in aid that allow states considerable discretion in how the funds are spent |
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| Congressional grants given to states and localities on the condition that expenditures be limited to a problem or group specified by law |
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Discretionary
Competitive
Health programs
National institution of health |
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| Article 1 section 8 of constitution |
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| Necessary and proper clause, providing congress with the authority to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out its express powers |
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Authority possessed by both state and national government
Collecting taxes
Make and enforce laws
Military
Establish/maintain courts
Voting/elections |
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Provide education
Protect public health and safety
Protect property rights
Regulate charities |
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| Create coin and other exclusive powers |
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| Individual and legal constitutional protections against the government |
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| Where are the rights of civil liberties found? |
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| Bill of rights, amendment 1: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, and freedom to petition the government. |
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| Thomas Jefferson wall of separation meaning |
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| State can not take any side of religion but must not interfere with practice of it |
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| First amendment clause that says that congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion;” this law means that a wall of Seperations exists between church and state |
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| Amendment 1: Freedom to practice religion of choice without state interference |
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| What amendments deals with defendant rights, what do they do? |
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| 6th, right to counsel...7th trial by jury, and no overturning of jury by court....8th cruel and unusual punishment....5th, grand jury determines whether sufficient evidence is available to justify trial. Double jeopardy protects a person from being tried twice for the same crime. Self incrimination, the accused cannot be compelled to incriminate themselves they may choose to speak to police or authorities, but they cannot be punished for refusing to do so. Eminent domain- government can take private property for public use but only by showing public purpose and fair payment |
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| Judith miller being hailed for refusing to tell a federal grand jury the name of a confidential source |
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| Obscenity Supreme Court definition |
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| Speech or writing that appeals to the prurient interest, that is whose purpose is to excite lust as this appears to the average person applying contemporary community standards |
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| 3 step pornography definition |
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| 1. As a whole is deemed prurient by the average person according to community standards 2. Depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and 3 lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. |
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| The process by which different protections in the bill of rights were incorporated or applied to the states part by part, using the fourteenth amendment, this guaranteeing citizens protection from state as well as national government |
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| Obligation imposed on government to take positive action to protect citizens from any illegal action of government agencies and of other private citizens |
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| Why did the equal rights amendments not pass federally |
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| It failed to be ratified before its deadline |
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| How did African Americans get the right to vote |
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| How did 18 year olds get the right to vote |
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| Demonstrations that fought for LGBT equality 1969 |
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| First women’s rights convention 1848 |
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| 14th amendment guarantees |
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| 13th amendment guarantees |
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| 15th amendment guarantees |
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| Voting rights for all men |
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