Psci 1101 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Income - Answer money received from a task or job Wealth - Answer extraneous money Flat tax - Answer a tax system with a constant marginal rate Progressive tax - Answer the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases Political Culture - Answer the set of ideas and attitudes about a government and the political process held by a community or nation

Limits to free speech - Answer Not allowed: peyote use religious wear in the army polygamy 1. Fighting words (threat to public safety) 2. Libel slander 3. Obscenity 4. Commercial speech (no cig ads on tv, no drinking alc on tv)

hat is Diversity of Citizenship and how is it related to Basic Judicial Requirements? - Answer A basis for federal court jurisdiction over a lawsuit that arises when (1) the parties in the lawsuit live in different states or when one of the parties is a foreign government or a foreign citizen, and (2) the amount in controversy is more than $75,000. What is Standing to Sue and how is it related to Basic Judicial Requirements? - Answer To bring a lawsuit before a court, a person must have st...

President Pro Tempore - Answer In the absence of the vice president, the formal presiding officer of the Senate. The honor is usually conferred on the senior member of the majority party, but the post is sometimes rotated among senators of the majority party Proportional Representation - Answer An electoral system in which legislative seats are awarded to candidates or parties in proportion to the percentage of votes received

political party - Answer an organized group of people who have the same ideology, or who otherwise have the same political positions, and who field candidates for elections, in an attempt to get them elected and thereby implement the party's agenda; main 2 in US are democrat and republican Puzzle of parties - Answer Politicians build parties to raise money, awareness, chances of winning elections etc. Parties are beneficial to the politicians.

What are the inherent power of the president ?? - Answer - power of persuasion - executive arrangements -define limits of their authority to obstacles raised What are the 3 expansion presidential powers ? - Answer * presidential expanded legislative power - call congress to enact law - work with congress

17th amendment - Answer allows for direct election of US senators, turned the senate away from state interests Supremacy Clause of Constitution - Answer specifies that national law is supreme so long as national law "conforms to the Constitution." Necessary and Proper Clause (Elastic Clause) - Answer increases national power insofar as it allows congress to "make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing powers"

Cleavage 1 of Constitutional Convention - Answer Strength of National Government: some delegates favored a weak national government and some favored a strong national government Cleavage 2 of Constitutional Convention - Answer Representation in the Legislature: states with a large population wanted a system based on state population, and vice versa, states with a small population wanted equal representation for all states

interest groups An organization of people who share common political interests and aim to influence public policy by electioneering and lobbying. linkage institutions institutions such as political parties, interest groups, the media, and elections that are channels through which individuals can communicate their preferences to policy makers