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WWU PLSC 250 Final Exam questionswell answered already passed
3/5 Compromise - correct answer ✔✔-each slave would count for 3/5 of a person for taxation and
representation purposes
Antifederalists - correct answer ✔✔Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central
government, generally.
Australian ballot - correct answer ✔✔a government-printed ballot of uniform dimensions to be cast in
secret that many states adopted around 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party-printed
ballots cast in public
Brown v. Board of Education - correct answer ✔✔1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v.
Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public
schools desegregated.
Bureaucratic Delegation - correct answer ✔✔Delegated powers within the bureaucracy. The power to
hire an agent to get things done for them
Buckley v. Valeo - correct answer ✔✔A case in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld
federal limits on campaign contributions and ruled that spending money to influence elections is a form
of constitutionally protected free speech. The court also stated candidates can give unlimited amounts of
money to their own campaigns.
Checks and Balances - correct answer ✔✔A system that allows each branch of government to limit the
powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission - correct answer ✔✔A 2010 landmark Supreme Court
case that ruled that individuals, corporations, and unions could donate unlimited amounts of money to
groups that make independent political expenditures.
, collective action - correct answer ✔✔How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives,
including how to get individuals and groups to participate and to cooperate. The term has many
applications in the various social sciences such as political science, sociology, and economics.
Commerce Clause - correct answer ✔✔Clause stating that Congress can regulate interstate and
international commerce.
Condorcet Jury Theorem - correct answer ✔✔The relative probability of a given group of individuals
arriving at a correct decision
Connecticut Compromise - correct answer ✔✔Compromise agreement by states at the Constitutional
Convention for a bicameral legislature with a lower house in which representation would be based on
population and an upper house in which each state would have two senators.
Constrained Court - correct answer ✔✔SCOTUS is limited by in what it can decide by political factors
Dual Federalism - correct answer ✔✔A system of government in which both the states and the national
government remain supreme within their own spheres, each responsible for some policies.
Dynamic Court - correct answer ✔✔Rejects the notion that courts are inherently ineffective at social
reforms
Electoral College - correct answer ✔✔a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally
cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.
enumerated powers - correct answer ✔✔The powers explicitly given to Congress in the Constitution.
executive agreement - correct answer ✔✔an agreement between the president and the leader of
another country
exectutive branch - correct answer ✔✔the branch of government that carries out laws
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