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Jeopardy!
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- 100

• Among the numerous advantages promised by a well
  constructed Union, none deserves to be more
  accurately developed than its tendency to break.
• What is James Madison?
• -Federalist papers factions

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- 200

• What is organized efforts to influence
  legislation or public policy?
• -lobbying

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- 300

• What is an amendment added to a bill having
  nothing to do with the subject of a bill?
• -Rider

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- 400

• What is the scheduling of presidentials primary
  elections early in an election year?
• - Front loading

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- 500

• What is a citizen that has a low level of
  education is likely to have a strong sense?
• - Political efficacy

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- 100

• What court case exceeded Congress authority to
  regulate interstate commerce?
• -United States v. Lopez 1995

C2-100
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- 200

• What was the apportionment in Georgia districts
  that discriminated against voters since district
  population varied greatly in turn dialing their
  votes?
• -Wesberry v. Sanders

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- 300

• What is no racial gerrymandering?
• - Shaw v. Reno (1963)

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- 400

• What is the use of the 14th amendment?
• - Bush v. Gore

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- 500

• What is one man, one vote?
• - Baker v. Carr (1962)

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- 100

• What is a structured organization of people who
  share attitudes and attempt to influence public
  policy?
• - Interest groups

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- 200

• What are the indicated votes in which a majority
  of votes of Democrats oppose the majority votes
  of Republicans?
• Party polarization

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- 300

• What is the executive departments that have a
  close relationships with the congressional
  committees and interests groups in their field?
• - Iron triangle

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- 400

• What is the set of issues, problems, or subjects
  and the involving of policymaking?
• - Policy agenda

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- 500

• What is the competition among groups that press
  for their own preferred policies?
• - Pluralist theory

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- 100

• What is the accommodation of population shifts
  and keeps the districts as equal as possible in a
  population?
• - Redistricting

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- 200

• What is a citizen that could only vote only for
  candidates of one party?
• - Closed primary

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- 300

• What is the occurrence following candidates after
  being selected by a direct primary?
• - General Election

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- 400

• What is the practice that has created a gridlock
  in the government?
• - Split ticket voting

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- 500

• Under certain restrictions, this group can
  contribute towards campaigns but under certain
  restrictions?
• - PACs

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- 100

• What regulates broadcasters to present
  controversial issues of the public as honest,
  balanced, and equal?
• -Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

C4-100

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- 200

• What is the result of a news cover around the
  clock?
• - New media

C4-200
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- 300

• What is the pounce of a astounding story
  involving a scandal?
• - Feeding frenzy

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- 400

• What is read my lips No new taxes?
• - Sound bite

C4-400

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- 500

• What is Presidents Obama vacationing to the Gulf
  Coast after a BP spill in 2010?
• -Photo Opportunity

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- 100

• What bans amendments to a bill?
• -Closed rule

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- 200

• What is known to set the calendar and give the
  procedures for a debate of a bill?
• - Rules Committee

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- 300

• What is to keep the floor?
• -Filibuster

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- 400

• What is the advantage over challengers?
• Incumbent

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- 500

• What is a building of a new dam secure a
  incumbent constituents?
• - Pork barrel

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