POLS 206 TAMU Smith Exam 1 with complete solutions 100% Verified
government - answer✔✔the institutions through which public policies are made for a society; the institutions through which authoritatively binding decisions are made for society politics - answer✔✔process of determining leaders and the policies they pursue; produces authoritative decisions about public issues policymaking system - answer✔✔process where policy comes into being/evolves citizen's interests/concerns go to linkage institutions, like parties, which shape policy agenda affect laws/policies made which in turn affect the citizen's concerns policy agenda - answer✔✔the issues that attract serious attention from public officials public policy - answer✔✔a choice government makes in response to a political issue; a course of action Dahl's principles - answer✔✔Key principles 1- equality in voting 2-effective participation 3- enlightened understanding 4-citizen control of the agenda 5-inclusion John Locke philosophy - answer✔✔life, liberty, and the right to property natural law- rights/liberties given to you by a creator and can not be taken away by any man contemporary american democracy theories - answer✔✔Pluralism, Elitism, hyper-pluralism representation - answer✔✔describes the relationship between between the few leaders and the many followers madison's philosophy on factions - answer✔✔groups that arise from unequal distribution of property and can cause civil instability. factions are inevitable because man is self-interested.these factions could be majority or minority 1 / 2
what did framers think purpose of gov was? - answer✔✔main purpose is to protect private property; purpose was to check self-interest of the people madisonian model - answer✔✔The madisonian model tries to overcome the tyranny of the majority by creating a constitutional republic limits majority control by placing direct government control far away separation of powers doesn't allow one branch to control the other two checks and balances is security that no one party can control the country established a federal system to divide power between state and federal judicial review - answer✔✔the power to hold actions of the other two branches unconstitutional consequences of separation of powers and checks and balances - answer✔✔if a compromise can not be made, we go into gridlock.The judicial branch has more power than the other branches.it is very hard to amend the constitution conservative bias favors the status quo free exercise clause - answer✔✔the federal government can't take away your beliefs; however all religious practices are not legal... when your religious practices break other laws- that is when your 1st amendment rights stop establishment clause - answer✔✔federal aid can go to religious schools if...1- no religious connection 2-can't advance/inhibit that religion 3-$ must avoid excessive government entanglement.
$ is on case by case basis supremacy clause - answer✔✔article VI makes constitution, national laws and treaties supreme over state laws as long as the national government is acting within its limitations
does not mention state powers exclusionary clause - answer✔✔unlawful search & seizure, if violates 4th Amendment- can't be used in court 1st Amendment - answer✔✔applied to federal government only
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