PSCI 2306 EXAM 2 UNT STUDY GUIDE
advice and consent - Answer -Terms in the Constitution describing the U.S. Senate's
power to review and approve treaties and presidential appointments.
agenda setting - Answer -Determining which public-policy questions will be debated or
considered.
Alexander Hamilton - Answer -1789-1795; First Secretary of the Treasury. He
advocated creation of a national bank, assumption of state debts by the federal
government, and a tariff system to pay off the national debt.
Amendment V - Answer -due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination and private
property
Amendment X - Answer -The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or
to the people.
Amendment XIII - Answer -abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as
punishment for a crime
Amendment XIV - Answer -Requires states to provide to its citizens equal protection of
the law
Amendment XVI - Answer -the amendment made income tax constitutional
Article I - Answer -Legislative Branch
Article II - Answer -Executive Branch
bicameral - Answer -A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses
Bill of Rights - Answer -Added AFTER the Constitutional Convention; created to gain
support of anti-Federalists; guaranteed rights of individuals
Block grants - Answer -Federal grants given more or less automatically to states or
communities to support broad programs in areas such as community development and
social services
bureaucracy - Answer -a system of government in which most of the important
decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives
categorical grants - Answer -Federal grants for specific purposes, such as building an
airport
, caucus - Answer -A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or
candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
closed rule - Answer -A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits
any amendments to bills or provides that only members of the committee reporting the
bill may offer amendments.
Coat tails - Answer -popular candidates that carry less popular ones into office
Commerce Clause - Answer -The clause in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause
1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines
or affect more than one state or other nations.
Compound Republic - Answer -power divided between national and state government
power from people (US)
Conference Committee - Answer -particular bill passed by each in different form.
A special joint committee appointed to reconcile differences when bills pass the two
chambers of Congress in different forms.
Cooperative Federalism - Answer -A system of government in which powers and policy
assignments are shared between states and the national government. They may also
share costs, administration, and even blame for programs that work poorly.
De facto - Answer -actual or effective, esp. when without legal authority; in fact
De jure - Answer -segregation by law
Devolution - Answer -The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain
political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.
Diversity of Faculties - Answer -in federalist 10, james madison argues that every
society will have an unequal distribution of property due to natural human differences in
each individual that he calls:
Dred Scott v. Sanford - Answer -The supreme court ruling that said that slaves were
not citizens but property
Dual federalism - Answer -A system of government in which both the states and the
national government remain supreme within their own spheres, each responsible for
some policies.
Elastic Clause - Answer -Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, which allows Congress
to make all laws that are "necessary and proper" to carry out the powers of the
Constitution.
advice and consent - Answer -Terms in the Constitution describing the U.S. Senate's
power to review and approve treaties and presidential appointments.
agenda setting - Answer -Determining which public-policy questions will be debated or
considered.
Alexander Hamilton - Answer -1789-1795; First Secretary of the Treasury. He
advocated creation of a national bank, assumption of state debts by the federal
government, and a tariff system to pay off the national debt.
Amendment V - Answer -due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination and private
property
Amendment X - Answer -The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or
to the people.
Amendment XIII - Answer -abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as
punishment for a crime
Amendment XIV - Answer -Requires states to provide to its citizens equal protection of
the law
Amendment XVI - Answer -the amendment made income tax constitutional
Article I - Answer -Legislative Branch
Article II - Answer -Executive Branch
bicameral - Answer -A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses
Bill of Rights - Answer -Added AFTER the Constitutional Convention; created to gain
support of anti-Federalists; guaranteed rights of individuals
Block grants - Answer -Federal grants given more or less automatically to states or
communities to support broad programs in areas such as community development and
social services
bureaucracy - Answer -a system of government in which most of the important
decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives
categorical grants - Answer -Federal grants for specific purposes, such as building an
airport
, caucus - Answer -A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or
candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
closed rule - Answer -A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits
any amendments to bills or provides that only members of the committee reporting the
bill may offer amendments.
Coat tails - Answer -popular candidates that carry less popular ones into office
Commerce Clause - Answer -The clause in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause
1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines
or affect more than one state or other nations.
Compound Republic - Answer -power divided between national and state government
power from people (US)
Conference Committee - Answer -particular bill passed by each in different form.
A special joint committee appointed to reconcile differences when bills pass the two
chambers of Congress in different forms.
Cooperative Federalism - Answer -A system of government in which powers and policy
assignments are shared between states and the national government. They may also
share costs, administration, and even blame for programs that work poorly.
De facto - Answer -actual or effective, esp. when without legal authority; in fact
De jure - Answer -segregation by law
Devolution - Answer -The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain
political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.
Diversity of Faculties - Answer -in federalist 10, james madison argues that every
society will have an unequal distribution of property due to natural human differences in
each individual that he calls:
Dred Scott v. Sanford - Answer -The supreme court ruling that said that slaves were
not citizens but property
Dual federalism - Answer -A system of government in which both the states and the
national government remain supreme within their own spheres, each responsible for
some policies.
Elastic Clause - Answer -Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, which allows Congress
to make all laws that are "necessary and proper" to carry out the powers of the
Constitution.
