Chapters - 1 & 2

Question 1

The activity by which an issue is agitated or settled.

Answer 1

Politics

Question 2

The ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person’s intentions.

Answer 2

Power

Question 3

The right to use power.

Answer 3

Authority

Question 4

A conflict, real or apparent, between the interests, ideas, or beliefs of different citizens.

Answer 4

Issue

Question 5

Political authority conferred by law or by a state or national constitution

Answer 5

Legitimacy

Question 6

The rule of many

Answer 6

Democracy

Question 7

A government in which all or most citizens participate directly.

Answer 7

Direct or participatory democracy

Question 8

A government in which leaders make decisions by winning a competitive struggle for the popular vote.

Answer 8

Representative government

Question 9

Persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource

Answer 9

Elite

Question 10

View that the government is dominated by capialists

Answer 10

Class view

Question 11

View that the government is dominated by a few top leaders, most of whom are outside of government

Answer 11

Power elite view

Question 12

View that government is dominated by appointed officials

Answer 12

Bureaucratic view

Question 13

View that competition among all affected interests shapes public policy

Answer 13

Pluralist view

Question 14

View that morally impassioned elites dilutive important political changes

Answer 14

Creedal passion view

Question 15

Issue that people believe require governmental attention

Answer 15

Political agenda

Question 16

A burden that people believe they must bear if a policy is adopted

Answer 16

Cost

Question 17

A satisfaction that people believe they will enjoy if a policy is adopted

Answer 17

Benefit

Question 18

A policy in which almost everyone benefits and almost everyone pays

Answer 18

Majoritarian politics

Question 19

A policy in which a small group benefits and another small group pays

Answer 19

Interest group politics

Question 20

A policy in which one small group benefits and almost everyone pays

Answer 20

Client politics

Question 21

Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return

Answer 21

Pork-barrel legislation

Question 22

A legislator supports a proposal favored by another in return for support of his or hers

Answer 22

Log-rolling

Question 23

A policy in which almost everybody benefits and a small group pays

Answer 23

Entrepreneurial politics

Question 24

Activists in or out of government who pull together political majority on behalf of unorganized interests

Answer 24

Policy entrepreneurs

Question 25

A human right based on nature or God

Answer 25

Unalienable

Question 26

A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War

Answer 26

Articles of Confederation

Question 27

A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution

Answer 27

Constitutional Convention

Question 28

A 1787 rebellion in which ex-Revolutionary War soldiers attempted to prevent foreclosure a of farms as a result of high interest rates and taxes

Answer 28

Shay's Rebellion

Question 29

Proposal to create a strong national government

Answer 29

Virginia plan

Question 30

Proposal to create a weak national government

Answer 30

New Jersey Plan

Question 31

Plan to have a popularly elected House based on state population and a state-selected Senate, with two members for each state

Answer 31

Great Compromise

Question 32

A government in which elected representatives make the decisions

Answer 32

Republic

Question 33

The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional

Answer 33

Judicial review

Question 34

Government authority shared by national and local governments

Answer 34

Federalism

Question 35

Powers given to the national government alone

Answer 35

Enumerated powers

Question 36

Powers given I the state government alone

Answer 36

Reserved powers

Question 37

Powers shared by the national and state governments

Answer 37

Concurrent powers

Question 38

Authority shared by three branches of government

Answer 38

Checks and balances

Question 39

Constitutional authority is shared by three different branches of government

Answer 39

Separation of powers

Question 40

A group with a distinct political interest

Answer 40

Faction

Question 41

Those who favor a stronger national government

Answer 41

Federalists

Question 42

Those who favor a weaker national government

Answer 42

Antifederalists

Question 43

An alliance of groups

Answer 43

Coalition

Question 44

First ten amendments to the Constitution

Answer 44

Bill of Rights

Question 45

An order to produce an arrested person before a judge

Answer 45

Habeas corpus

Question 46

A law that declares a person, without a trial, to be guilty of a crime

Answer 46

Bill of attainer

Question 47

A law that makes an act criminal although it was legal when it was committed

Answer 47

Ex post facto law

Question 48

A new provision in the constitution that has to be ratified by he states

Answer 48

Amendment

Question 49

An executive's ability to block a particular provision in a bill passed by the legislature

Answer 49

Line-item veto