Chapter 5 – Civil Rights 1. The statement that “all men are created equal” can be found in the A) U.S. Constitution. B) Declaration of Independence. C) Bill of Rights. D) Declaration of the Rights of Man. E) Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 2. The vote was extended to women in 1920 as a result of A) presidential executive order. B) passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. C) congressional mandate. D) a Supreme Court decision. E) individual state decisions. 3. Through which pathway
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Chapter 12: Congress 1) What did the Credit Card Accountability and Responsibility Act of 2009 do and the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act do that impacts college students? 430 a) The CARD act of 2009‚ restricted credit card companies from raising interest rates on existing balances. It also prevented credit card companies from charging a fee for exceeding their borrowing limit unless these customers had explicitly requested this service. It also made it more difficult for credit card
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LECTURE topics that WILL show up on the Final Exam: (All of these topics were covered in class lecture‚ so using the eBook or searching for answers to these topics online COULD (but may not) lead you to incorrect answers. Long story short‚ use your notes (or someone else’s notes that are reliable) to answer these topics.) Monday: * The First and Third Party Eras in Texas politics. First party from 1970 to 1930 was a One Party Democratic Third Party from 1953 to 1977 was a Conservative
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Student Study Guide to accompany Human Geography Eighth Edition Jerome D. Fellmann University of Illinois‚ Urbana-Champaign Arthur Getis San Diego State University Judith Getis With Contributions by Jon C. Malinowski Updated by Jon C. Malinowski United States Military Academy‚ West Point NY i Student Study Guide to accompany HUMAN GEOGRAPHY‚ EIGHTH EDITION FELLMANN/GETIS/GETIS Published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education‚ an imprint of The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc.‚ 1221
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Barack Obama: Man on a Wire By Steven Malik Shelton With the success of president Barack Obama’s reelection campaign which paved the way for him to exhaust a second term‚ he faces dilemmas as dangerous and precarious as he did during his first term. It is quite a balancing act that president Obama must perform if he is to maintain equilibrium between the demands of the wealthy elite and the
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ed/brian/Anglophone/postcolonial.html [4] Brydon‚ Diana & Tiffins‚ Helen. Decolonising Fictions. Dangaroo: Sydney‚ 1993. [5] Delgo‚ Soma. Making the Canon: Whose Post-Colonial is it? Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press‚ 2001. [6] Edelstein‚ Dan. “Gerrymandering the Canon”. Aug. 2010. Inside Higher Education. Retrieved May 20‚ 2011 from http://www.insidehighered.com [7] Ford‚ Boris. New Pelican Guide to English Literature. 1960/1999 London: Faber Finds. [8] Gilbert‚ Susan M. and Gubar‚ Susan. The Norton
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SECTION I. Public Opinion and Pol. Socialization (Chapter 6) 1. Public Opinion is the collective belief of citizens on a given issue or question at a given point of time. (slide 3) or viewed as politically relevant opinions held by ordinary citizens that they can express openly (in text) 2. Attitude is a preference which relates to something very specific as: -An issue (abortion‚ death penalty war in Iraq) -A person (Bush‚ Obama‚ Boehner‚ Romney) -An institution ( Fed. Reserve‚ Congress
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Interest Groups A group of people with shared feelings or attitudes that try to influence government policy making. Pluralism leads to interest groups. Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton‚ James‚ Madison‚ John Jay (Publius) Fall 1787-Spring 1789 Federalist 10 (Madison) An analysis of nature‚ causes‚ and effects of factions and a search for a way to control them. “Curing the Mischiefs” 1. Remove the cause 2. Control the effects Propaganda- takes them from where they are to where they want
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Rational Actor Model-look at the consequences and acts and makes decision accordingly. Doesn’t consider the political costs. Political Actor Model-Rational decisions only based on how it is going to impact them politically Organizational Actor Model- What are the decisions are going to impact the organization(what committee one might be on) Elitist Actor Model-Elites making the decision that will benefit themselves and other elite’s.(most prevalent model in our history) Idiosyncratic
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EOC—STUDY GUIDE 1) The six purposes of government are to: keep order‚ provide security‚ settle conflicts‚ set policies‚ make budgets‚ and interact with other communities. 2) Different types of government a. Representative Democracy – the citizens choose a smaller group to represent them‚ make laws‚ and govern on their behalf‚ but the people remain the source of the government’s authority. b. Dictatorship – a government controlled by one person or a small group of people who make all decisions. c
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