AP Government Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

AP Government 2nd Nine Weeks Political action committees (PACs) were created by campaign reform laws to - ️ regulate how groups such as business and labor contribute to campaigns. All of the following are recent trends in presidential nominations and campaigns EXCEPT - ️ infrequency of presidential primaries among states. The rise of primary election system has led to - ️ the public's more direct involvement in the election of the president. The government institu...

AP Government - Multiple Choice In McCulloch v. Maryland The Supreme Court established which of the following principles - ️ States cannot interfere with or tax the legitememt activities of the federal government The reserved powers of the state governments can best be described as those - ️ Not specifically granted to the national government or denied to the states The terms fiscal federalism and cooperative federalism referred to the situations in which - ️ Federal, st...

AP Government Unit 1 Test Basic functions of government - ️ national defense, preserve order, establish and maintain a legal system, provide services, socialize new generations Government - ️ the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies Politics - ️ the effort to control or influence the conduct and policies of government Public policy - ️ the course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem Politi...

AP Government Federalism Devolution - ️ The effort to transfer responsibility for many public programs and services from the federal government to the states. Block Grants - ️ money from the national government that states can send within broad guidelines determined by the National Government Dual Federalism - ️ A system of government in which both the states and the national government remain supreme within their own spheres, each responsible for some policies. F...

AP Government Constitution Test The federal Constitution guarantees all of the following rights to a person arrested and charged with a serious crime EXCEPT the right to - ️ Negotiate a plea bargain "The constitution limits the size of the District of Columbia to __________." The above quotation came from a literacy test which was most likely designed to - ️ Prevent black people from exercising their right to vote In the Constitution as originally ratified in 1788, the...

AP Government Bureaucracy Bureaucracy - ️ According to Max Weber, a hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with impersonality. They govern modern states. Implementation - ️ The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending. Administrative Adjudication - ️ a quasi-judicial process in which a bureaucratic agency settles disputes between two parties in a manner sim...

AP Government - Comparative Government Pure Democracy - ️ Type of government where the majority has the power. Representative Democracy - ️ Type of government where people have power to select others to make decisions for the group. Republic - ️ Type of government where the law, usually a Constitution, is the source of power. Dictatorship - ️ General term for a type of government where power comes from fear, intimidation, and force. Fascism - ️...

AP Government Conservative - ️ Status Quo, less Gov. Moderate - ️ Mid-Ground Liberal - ️ Peaceful gradual change, reject violent revolution Radical - ️ Far Left, Resorts to extreme methods to bring about change. Political Spectrum - ️ Tool used to visually compare different political positions by placing them on one or more axis. Right - ️ Less Gov intervention, Traditional Values Left - ️ More Gov Intervention, support c...

AP Government - Ideology and Parties Political Culture ️-A set of values and beliefs about government shared by most citizens -Provides the environment in which the political system functions What are basic values of US Political Culture? ️-Majority rule, but also minority rights and individual freedoms -Limited government, rule of law, constitutionalism, fair elections -Capitalist economy, but with government control and involvement -Equality befo...

AP Government Unit 1 1st Constitution of the U.S. (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade) Each state retained sovereignty, the ability to act independently of the Confederation. Each state had equal representation in a unicameral (single house) legislature. - ️ the Articles of Confederation Rebellion led by farmers in western Massachusetts in , protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as...