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POLS 155 Key Terms
Note: Here are key terms that everybody should know for the final. I provide these to
help you study, since this list covers much of the important content and concepts of the
course. Please note though that this list is not exclusive and there may be other words or
concepts on the exam as well.
Ch1 & 2 (Exam 1)
political efficacy
liberty, equality, democracy
limited government
popular sovereignty
majority rule
minority rights
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
federalism, unitary system, confederation
Shays’s Rebellion
Annapolis Convention
Philadelphia Convention
Great Compromise
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Three-fifths Compromise
bicameral, unicameral
excessive democracy
checks and balances
separation of powers
17th Amendment
expressed powers/enumerated powers
implied powers
necessary and proper clause (elastic clause)
electoral college
judicial review
full faith and credit clause
privileges and immunities clause (comity clause)
supremacy clause
Federalists, Anti-Federalists
Ch3 & 4 (Exam 2)
reserved powers
10th Amendment
police power
concurrent powers
home rule
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
2
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
commerce clause
dual federalism, cooperative federalism, regulated federalism, new federalism
grants-in-aid
block grants
categorical grants
unfunded mandates
devolution
civil liberties
civil rights
Bill of Rights
Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
dual citizenship
Fourteenth Amendment
selective incorporation
eminent domain
First Amendment
freedom of religion
establishment clause
free exercise clause
freedom of speech
absolutely protected speech
political speech
symbolic speech
speech plus
rights of assembly and petition
libel
slander
obscenity/pornography
fighting words
commercial speech
Second Amendment
Fourth Amendment
exclusionary rule
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
due process
Fifth Amendment
grand jury
double jeopardy
self-incrimination
Miranda rule
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Sixth Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Eighth Amendment
right to privacy
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Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Bowers vs. Hardwick (1986)
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
Ch5 & 8 (Exam 3)
Thirteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
equal protection clause (Fourteenth Amendment)
due process clause (Fourteenth Amendment)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
separate but equal rule
Jim Crow
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAAC)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
de jure
de facto
Little Rock crisis (Central High School, Little Rock)
Montgomery bus boycott
Martin Luther King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
March on Washington
Civil Rights Act, 1964
24th Amendment
Voting Rights Act, 1965
affirmative action
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 1978
Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
California Proposition 209 (1996) ...
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POLS 155 Key Terms
Note: Here are key terms that everybody should know for the
final. I provide these to
help you study, since this list covers much of the important
content and concepts of the
course. Please note though that this list is not exclusive and
there may be other words or
concepts on the exam as well.
Ch1 & 2 (Exam 1)
political efficacy
liberty, equality, democracy
limited government
popular sovereignty
majority rule
minority rights
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
federalism, unitary system, confederation
Shays’s Rebellion
Annapolis Convention
Philadelphia Convention
Great Compromise
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Three-fifths Compromise
bicameral, unicameral
excessive democracy
checks and balances
2. separation of powers
17th Amendment
expressed powers/enumerated powers
implied powers
necessary and proper clause (elastic clause)
electoral college
judicial review
full faith and credit clause
privileges and immunities clause (comity clause)
supremacy clause
Federalists, Anti-Federalists
Ch3 & 4 (Exam 2)
reserved powers
10th Amendment
police power
concurrent powers
home rule
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
2
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
commerce clause
dual federalism, cooperative federalism, regulated federalism,
new federalism
grants-in-aid
block grants
categorical grants
unfunded mandates
devolution
civil liberties
civil rights
Bill of Rights
3. Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
dual citizenship
Fourteenth Amendment
selective incorporation
eminent domain
First Amendment
freedom of religion
establishment clause
free exercise clause
freedom of speech
absolutely protected speech
political speech
symbolic speech
speech plus
rights of assembly and petition
libel
slander
obscenity/pornography
fighting words
commercial speech
Second Amendment
Fourth Amendment
exclusionary rule
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
due process
Fifth Amendment
grand jury
double jeopardy
self-incrimination
Miranda rule
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Sixth Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Eighth Amendment
right to privacy
4. 3
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Bowers vs. Hardwick (1986)
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
Ch5 & 8 (Exam 3)
Thirteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
equal protection clause (Fourteenth Amendment)
due process clause (Fourteenth Amendment)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
separate but equal rule
Jim Crow
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAAC)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
de jure
de facto
Little Rock crisis (Central High School, Little Rock)
Montgomery bus boycott
Martin Luther King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
March on Washington
Civil Rights Act, 1964
24th Amendment
Voting Rights Act, 1965
affirmative action
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 1978
Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
California Proposition 209 (1996)
voter registration
5. voter turnout
19th Amendment
26th Amendment
Election-Day registration
socioeconomic status
gender gap
Ch9 & 10 (Exam 4)
political parties
two-party system
third parties
single-member-district plurality system/ winner-take-all system
multiple-member-district system
Duverger’s law
plurality system
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majority system
Federalists
Alexander Hamilton
Republicans/Jeffersonian Republicans/Democratic Republicans
Thomas Jefferson
Whig Party
Democrats
Republicans
GOP
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
electoral realignment
divided government
party identification
primary election
closed primary
6. open primary
general election
direct democracy
referendum
initiative
recall
Gray Davis
Arnold Schwarzenegger
closed primary
open primary
majority system, plurality system, proportional representation
apportionment
redistricting
gerrymandering
presidential election
primary, caucus
national convention
delegates
electoral college
party platform
527 committee
501 (c)(4)
political action committee (PAC)
Super PAC
Ch11 & 12 (Exam 5)
interest groups
pluralism, James Madison
business and agricultural groups
labor groups
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professional associations
7. public interest groups
ideological groups
public-sector groups
collective goods
collective action problem
rationality
free rider problem
selective benefits
informational benefits
material benefits
solidary benefits
purposive benefits
new politics movement
lobbying
iron triangle (congressional committees + executive agencies +
interest groups)
amicus curiae
AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor, Congress of
Industrial Organizations)
American Bar Association
AARP (American Association of Retired Persons)
NRA (National Rifle Association)
AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee)
Christian Coalition
Sierra Club
bicameral
constituency
incumbency
17th Amendment
pork-barrel legislation
party caucus, conference
Speaker of the House, Majority Leader, Minority Leader
Whip
Senate President Pro Tempore
standing committee
conference committee
8. rules committee
logrolling
filibuster
cloture
veto power
advice and consent
Watergate scandal
Democratic National Committee
Richard Nixon
Deep Throat
United States v. Nixon (1974)
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Ch 13
expressed powers
inherent powers
delegated powers
impeachment
commander in chief
War Powers Resolution
executive agreement
executive privilege
executive order
veto
pocket veto
legislative initiative
cabinet
White House Staff
Kitchen Cabinet
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Governing California
California State Assembly
9. California State Senate
majoritarian, republican
two-thirds requirement
gerrymandering
term limits
Proposition 25 (2010)
Proposition 11 (2008)
Proposition 20 (2010)
Proposition 140 (1990)
Progressive Movement
Hiram Johnson
Southern Pacific Railroad
Proposition 8 (2008)
Hollingsworth v. Perry (2013)
Proposition 198 (1996)
California Democratic Party v. Jones (2000)
blanket primary
modified closed primary
top two primary
Proposition 14 (2010)
line-item veto
Proposition 13 (1978)
Proposition 98 (1988)
Congress
• Differences
between
US
Senate
13. -party system, third parties
-party system
Republican Party
-member district system vs.
multiple-member district system
stricting, gerrymandering
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Interest groups
traditional? Which are relatively new?
collective action problem?
14. public policy? What do they do? What is the
iron triangle?
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Review:
The US Constitution
: Executive branch
The Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights, 1791
• Selective incorporation
First Amendment
• Freedom of religion: establishment clause; free
exercise clause
• Freedom of speech and the press: absolutely
protected speech (political speech, symbolic
speech, speech plus); not absolutely protected
(libel, slander, obscenity/pornography, fighting
words, commercial speech)
15. Second Amendment
• Right to bear arms
Rights of the criminally
accused
Fourth Amendment: security from
unreasonable searches and seizures;
exclusionary rule
Fifth Amendment: rights of accused persons
in criminal proceedings (right to a grand jury;
protection from double jeopardy and self-
incrimination)
Sixth Amendment: right to speedy trial and
counsel
Eighth Amendment: protection from cruel and
unusual punishment
Supreme Court cases: The
criminally accused
Mapp v. Ohio, 1961
• Exclusionary rule
Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963
• Right to counsel
Miranda v. Arizona, 1966
• Protection against self-incrimination
16. • Right to counsel
Supreme Court cases: Right
to privacy
Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965
• The Connecticut law forbidding the use of
contraceptives was unconstitutional
Roe v. Wade, 1973
• Right to abortion
Lawrence v. Texas, 2003
• Homosexuality (The Texas law classifying
homosexual intercourse as illegal sodomy
violated the privacy of adults and was
unconstitutional)
Civil Rights
Thirteenth Amendment, 1865
• abolition of slavery
Fourteenth Amendment, 1868
• equal protection clause
• due process clause
Fifteenth Amendment, 1870
• suffrage (African American men)
Supreme Court cases: Racial
segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
• Separate but equal rule
17. Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, 1954
• School segregation was
unconstitutional
Supreme Court cases:
Affirmative action
Bakke v. The University of California, 1978
• The use of a quota system based on race
was unconstitutional
Gratz v. Bollinger, 2003
• The use of a point system based on race was
unconstitutional
Grutter v. Bollinger, 2003
• Race can be a plus factor
California and affirmative action
Proposition 209 (1996)
• Elimination of affirmative action
programs based on race, sex, color,
ethnicity or national origin
Clauses