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9903510820	10th Amendment	Powers Reserved to the States	0
9903510821	John Locke	English philosopher who argued that people have natural rights	1
9903510822	Shay's Rebellion	Destroyed the Articles of Confederation.	2
9903510823	Can the Supreme Court declare a law unconstitutional?	No	3
9903510824	Devolution	the transfer of powers and responsibilities from the federal government to the states	4
9903510825	categorical grants	Federal grants for specific purposes, such as building an airport	5
9903510826	block grants	federal grants-in-aid that allow states considerable discretion in how the funds are spent	6
9903510827	mandate	an authoritative command	7
9903510828	primary responsibility of constitution	Protect private property	8
9903510829	Federalist 10	Argued the latent causes of faction are sown in the nature of man	9
9903510830	Are political parties listed in the Constitution?	no	10
9903510831	interest group	a group of people with common goals who organize to influence government	11
9903510832	linkage institutions	media, political parties, elections, interest groups	12
9903510833	Political Action Committee (PAC)	an interest group that raises funds and donates to election campaigns	13
9903510834	ticket splitting	voting with one party for one office and with another party for other offices	14
9903510835	Do most Americans vote in elections?	No	15
9903510836	iron triangles	relationship between a bureaucracy, an interest group, and a congressional committee	16
9903510837	franking privilege	Benefit allowing members of Congress to mail letters and other materials postage-free	17
9903510838	pork barrel	the use of government funds for projects designed to please voters or legislators and win votes	18
9903510839	Are committees more significant in house or senate?	House (more people)	19
9903510840	standing committee	a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues	20
9903510841	conference committee	special joint committee created to reconcile differences in bills passed by the House and Senate	21
9903510842	Rules Committee (House)	establishes rule on floor	22
9903510843	closed rules	conditions placed on a legislative debate by the house of rules prohibiting amendments to a bill and makes a set time	23
9903510844	Subcommittee	Division of existing committee that is formed to address specific issues	24
9903510845	Ways and Means Committee	House committee that handles tax bills	25
9903510846	Cloture	A procedure for terminating debate, especially filibusters, in the Senate.	26
9903510847	Trustee	After listening to constiutents, elected representatives vote based on their own opinions	27
9903510848	delegate	A person appointed or elected to represent others	28
9903510849	22nd Amendment	Amendment that created a 2 term limit on presidents.	29
9903510850	pocket veto	indirect veto of legislation by refusing to sign it	30
9903510851	Can the president use a line item veto?	No governors can	31
9903510852	Most cases end in a?	Please bargain	32
9903510853	district courts	the lowest federal courts; federal trials can be held only here	33
9903510854	amicus curiae	a brief submitted by a "friend of the court"	34
9903510855	appellate court	A court having jurisdiction to review cases and issues that were originally tried in lower courts.	35
9903510856	incorporation doctrine	the process by which the Bill of Rights was extended to the states and localities	36
9903510857	writ of certiorari	A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.	37
9903510858	judicial restraint	a theory of judicial interpretation that encourages judges to limit the exercise of their own power	38
9903510859	judicial activism	view that the courts should be lawmaking, policymaking bodies	39
9903510860	Judicial Review	Allows the court to determine the constitutionality of laws (Marbury v Madison)	40
9903510861	Mculloch v. Maryland	(1819) case that said federal law trumps state law	41
9903510862	Warren Court	Became famous for landmark decisions such as Brown v. Board, Miranda v. Arizona, etc.	42
9903510863	Griswold v. Connecticut	Established that there is an implied right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution	43
9903510864	Baker v. Carr	One man, one vote	44
9903510865	New York Times v. Sullivan	To libel a public figure, there must be "actual malice"	45
9903510866	Largest portion of uncontrollable spending	Entitlements	46
9903510867	5th Amendment	The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy, right to due process	47
9903510868	14th Amendment	Rights of Citizens, equal protection	48
9903510869	Office of Management and Budget	the executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget	49
9903510870	Bureaucracy	Government agencies	50
9903510871	15th Amendment	States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race.	51
9903510872	24th Amendment	Abolishes poll taxes	52
9903510873	26th Amendment	Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18	53
9903510874	War Powers Act	Limits the ability of the president to commit troops to combat.	54
9903510875	Civil Rights vs. Civil Liberties	Civil Rights are protection from discrimination while liberties protect from government	55