2^nd exam review. This will make up about 90% of the exam. Good luck!

1) What is plagiarism?

2) What do legislatures do in our system and how important are they?

3) Where does this power come from (precisely)?

4) Length of legislative terms for senators and representatives (how these correspond to the purpose of those bodies).

5) Trustee vs. delegate representative

6) How does a bill become a law (step by step; the easy version)?

7) How does Congress control the president and judiciary?

8) Difference b/t who House members and Senators represent (constituency size and makeup)

9) Where does the office of the President get its powers from?

10) Main function of President early on? Has this changed over time? How?

11) How can someone who simply executes Congress’s laws (like the president) come to have so much power over Congress over time?

12) Leader of the party, why is this important?

13) Can a president “declare war?”

14) Are forest rangers bureaucrats? What do bureaucrats do (generally speaking)?

15) Who is struggling to control the bureaucracy? What power does each player have to use?

16) Does the bureaucracy act like a fourth branch of government?

17) Bureaucrats as representatives? Are they elected? How might this be good/bad for democracy?

18) Can bureaucrats be watchdogs?

19) Alternatives to public bureaucracy.

20) Are civil rights and civil liberties really different from one another? How?

21) where do civil liberties come from?

22) Selective incorporation and how it relates to federalism

23) Why don't things happen quickly in the federal legislature?

24) What are some ways that legislators have found to get around the constraints of the framers?

25) What do legislative committees and subcommittees do?

26) What are some of the things that the president CAN do?

27) Is "patchwriting" considered plagiarism?

28) What are some reasons that Congress delegates duties to the president and the bureaucracy?

29) In what specific ways are public organizations (firms) and private organizations (firms) different from one another (this references the Terry Moe reading, and lecture)?

a. who "owns" the public firm?

b. what effect do political "losers" have on the public firm?

c. how does political uncertainty (about the future) affect the public firm (institutions particularly)?

30) What are some specific things that public bureaucrats can do to maintain their own power?

31) How does the battle for Black civil rights highlight the changes in federalism over time?

32) When and why does nonviolence work as a political tactic?

a. do you expect it to always work? why or why not?

33) Does the Constitution allow religious tests to be given to people for federal office?

34) Has the line between religion and politics (according to lecture and the Supreme Court) become more strict or more lenient over the last 20 years?

35) Does the Constitution guarantee a right to privacy?

a. What evidence supports this/what evidence refutes this?

36) Does David Mayhew write that Congressional representatives care about getting reelected or not?

a. If so, how do they show it?

37) What has the court, generally speaking, done with the issue of obscenity (pornography)? How does this relate to federalism?

38) According to Dr. Juenke, who is the biggest threat to our individual liberty? What does he mean by this?

39) What is the dilemma of delegating too much power to the president?

40) What are the different ways (that we talked about in class) for Congress-people to stay in office?