Chapter 7-8 The Party System

Two-party system                                                                                                                                     
Plato’s Republic                                                                                                                                           
Political Party why natural? Why necessary?
Identify periods when major political parties have dominated the other.
On what issues is there a clear distinction between Republican and Democrat?
What factors determine where a persons identification a political party over another?
one-party system
multi-party system
Four types of third parties                                                                                                                       
Four significant political results of Andrew Jackson's election to the presidency in 1828?
Four components of a National Party
How were many of the delegates to the National Convention chosen Before 1968?  After 1968?
ticket splitting
The Campaign Trail: Identify each of the steps and the main hurdles candidates must overcome along the path to becoming president
Primaries: Closed primaries –Open primaries –Blanket primaries …                                                      
Caucus
The Primary Hurdles: How have presidential primaries become increasingly important in the process of determining a party's presidential candidate since the 1960's and 1970's?
Describe two problems the major parties have experienced because of presidential primaries.
Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary?                                 
Threefold purpose of the national convention                                     
Make-up of delegates to the national convention                                                                                     Balancing the ticket
Differences between the primary campaign and the general election campaign.
Winner-take-all system of the Electoral system
Date for the general election?        
Exit polls                                                                                                                                                    Electoral College make up and how it works

CHAPTER 11: The Presidency

How does the Constitution describe the executive branch?

What are the qualifications for President according to the Constitution? 

What are the two main paths to the White House?                                                                               Relationship between Article II Section I and the XXII Amendment?

Identify the impeachment process and historical examples of it being implemented.

Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton

Compare Taft and Roosevelt’s views concerning executive power.

Describe the following hats the President is asked to wear and cite examples of each.  

Chief Executive                                             

Commander in Chief

Legislative Leader                             

Diplomatic Leader

Chief of State                        

Party Leader

Identify checks that have been placed on those powers.

Executive Organization: Identify the three major levels executive bureaucracy

Vice President: Two responsibilities according to the Constitution

Describe the XXV Amendment as it relates to the Vice President.

The Executive Office of the President Why formed and the 3 main offices

The Cabinet: Describe it’s purpose.              

How does the Cabinet of the President differ from Britain’s Cabinet government?

Identify some pitfalls of the Presidency:  

Chapter 10 The Legislative Process

Duty of Congress

Number of Representative, Senators

Special powers of the House? The Senate? Article I

Qualifications and term for House? Senate?

Implied power   

Delegated power  

Revenue                                                                                                      

Bills

Coalition

Caucus

Census

Cloture

Majority Leader

Minority Leader

Minority Whip

Majority Whip                                                                                                                                                                                        

Speaker of the House

Vice President

President Pro Tempore Joint, Select, Standing, Conference Committees

                                                                                            
Committee Stage

Floor Stage

Conference Stage

House Rules Committee

Impeachment

Bicameral

trustee- delegate-partisan-politico

Committee Chairman

Pocket Veto

Veto

Where does the real "work" of Congress take place, and how is the workload divided?                   

What are the expressed powers of(l) both Houses, (2) the House, and (3) the Senate?

Describe the steps that a law must go through from the time it is first proposed to the time that it is passed by Congress

What are the advantages of a slow-in legislature?

Chapter 5 The Constitution

Articles I-VII of the Constitution                                                                                               

Main purpose of each branch of government

Five Principles of the Constitution  

Checks and Balances

Popular Sovereignty

Separation of Power

Limited government

Federalism

census.

Republican Government

veto

French constitution of 1792

electoral college

Role of  Congress in an impeachment  

qualifications for senator congressman Supreme Court Justice and President

bureaucracy

ex post facto law allows

Bill of Attainder

# of Amendments added to the Constitution

Preamble

strict constructionists

broad constructionists 

Chapter 4 Study Guide

Patrick Henry

First Continental Congress.

Thomas Jefferson

Barbary pirates

New Jersey Plan

Great Compromise

The Federalists

William Randolph

James Madison

Virginia Plan

 Second Continental Congress

George Washington

Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton

Which of the following opposed the ratification of the Constitution?

Sons of Liberty

Daniel Shays

Publius

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Boston Massacre

federalism

Declaration of Grievances

Intolerable Acts

boycott

George III

Explain three Compromises delegates at the Constitutional Convention were able work out.  Examine both sides to work out compromises on and what these compromises were.

Discuss the weaknesses of the government under the Articles of Confederation.

Discuss the make-up of the government under the Articles of Confederation 

Chapter 2-3 Study Guide

Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Primary and Grammar schools
Harvard.
Great Awakening’s impact
Gilbert Tennent
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Eleazar Wheelock
David Brainard
Quebec Act  
Martin Luther
New England Primer
direct or pure democracy
indirect or representative democracy
republic
electoral college
Andrew Jackson
 Abraham Lincoln  
John Adams
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
 15 Amendment
16th Amendment
19th Amendment  
26th Amendment
Three major contributions of Christianity to American government?
 First to practice democracy?
3 main branches of the federal government?
Legislative body at the national level elected by direct popular vote?
Voting requirement when the nation was founded?
Essential characteristics of democracy?
Conditions that contributes to the success of a democratic system?

God's Purpose for Government

Be prepared to:

Evaluate basic values that form the foundation of a society                                                                                               
Identify what Romans 13:1-7, 1 Peter 2:13-17 and 1 Timothy 2:1-7 teach us about God’s purpose for government   

Evaluate the perspective of Socrates, Samuel Johnson, de Tocqueville, C.S. Lewis and the Federalists Papers on the relationship between government and religion.                                                                                                         

Evaluate perspectives on the importance of moral leaders                                                                                                   
A Christian’s responsibility to government