AP Government

Which is true of the Electoral College?

• Candidates may lose the popular vote but win the Electoral College

• Most states award delegates proportionally

• It forces candidates to focus on rural states

• It is enshrined in the 11th Amendment

Which of the following ways represents popular sovereignty? Possible more than one answer

• The constitution makes the people accountable

• Support by the people is shown in elections.

• People are indirectly involved in actions by the government.

• The constitution is made and ratified by the people.

• People are involved directly or by representation.

The doctrine that assumes that human beings had rights in a “state of nature” and create government in order to protect those rights is known as what? (a)  

• civil rights
• consent
• natural rights
• public policy

Which key concept is where the government's power is restricted by laws to protect individual liberties? (a)  

• Seperation of Powers
• Checks and Balances
• Limited Government
• Popular Sovereignty

Match the following

• Already holding office.

• Single Issue Group

• focus on a narrow interest, dislike compromise, and often draw membership from new politicians

• Political Realignment

• An Electoral system in which the party that receives at least one more vote than any other party

• Winner Take All Voting

• when people are moving away from the 2 political parties and moving towards the idea of indifference

• Incumbency Advantage

Are linkage institutions are channels that doesn't allow individuals to communicate their preferences to policy-makers? (a)  

• True
• False
• Unsure

What is the unique powerful position (gatekeeper power)- determines the terms on which legislation withh reach the floor-sets the time limit of the debate time for a bill-decides whether and how a bill may be amended? (a)  

• House of rules
• Political Realignment
• linkage agreement
• incumbency advangage

Committee of the whole is a committee of the House on which all Representatives serve and which meets in the House Chamber for the consideration of measures from the Union calendar?

• False

• True

The Great Compromise established the United States as ______ legislation

• tricameral

• bicameral

• unicameral

• democracy

What is a group of individuals, especially within a political organization, such as a political party, a trade union, or other group with a political purpose called?

• faction

• super pac

• unions

• single issue groups