The Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954
ordered the racial desegregation of public schools
A person who votes based on
... [Show More] what a candidate says he or she will do in the future is said to be
engaging in prospective voting
Should presidential candidates receive an equal number of electoral votes, the election is decided by
the House of Representatives
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"A form of government in which the people (defined broadly to include all adults or narrowly to exclude women and slaves, for examples) are the ultimate political authority." These words best define what political arrangement?
Democracy
New England's town meetings are examples of
direct democracy
Under the pen name "Publius," Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote
The Federalist Papers
In the seventeenth century, the signers of which of the following documents agreed to live under the colony's recognized authority and to wait for a royal charter, such as the Virginians had?
The Mayflower Compact
A person who believes that the government should do what the majority of people in the country want to do is advocating
majoritarianism
The purpose of the electoral college is to
choose the U.S. president
In the debates over the Constitution, federalists and anti-federalists spoke of factions the way we today speak of
interest groups
The U.S. Constitution requires that political authority be divided among the three branches of government. This is referred to as
the separation of power
The English philosopher whose words are heavily drawn on in the Declaration of Independence was
John Locke
Insofar as the Constitution is concerned, members of Congress receive payment for their work from
the U.S. Treasury
The vice president of the United States is the president of what government body?
Senate
What is the minimum age specified in the Constitution for member of the House of Representatives?
25
The Constitution specifically empowers Congress to coin money, declare war, and admit new states into the Union. These powers are referred to as
enumerated powers
In which of the nation's founding documents could one point to an "elastic clause" to justify the existence of large government agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services?
The Constitution
THe Tenth Amendment to the Constitution states that government powers "not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States," are reserved for the
state legislatures and the people
The term administrative discretion refers to which of the following?
Congress sets guidelines for government agencies to follow
The Real ID Act of 2005 was an example of
an unfunded mandate
Senators have the power to "talk a bill to death." What is the formal term for this procedure?
Filibuster
A piece of legislation proposed to Congress is called
a bill
What do unanimous consent agreements accomplish?
they end debate in the Senate
When voting for presidential candidates, residents of the states are saying that they want their state's Electoral College votes to go to that candidate. This is an example of
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