Gov 310l

GOV 310L MIDTERM 1

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affirmative action: Efforts to redress previous discrimination against women and minorities with the purpose of refining general law passed in legislation. (page 121)

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civil rights movement: A social movement of the 1950s and 1960s focused primarily on the situation of African Americans, but also promoting the goals that all people be treated as equals under the law and that discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, and place of origin be eliminated. (page 113)

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agenda setter: An authority that controls what options are decided on by a group. Antifederalists: Those who opposed adopting the Constitution as written because they feared that it created an overly strong national government. (page 51)

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club good: A variant of a public good; a product or benefit provided such that its enjoyment is exclusively for those who paid for it, but for which one person's enjoyment of it does not inhibit the enjoyment of it by others. (page 489)

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Articles of Confederation: The constitution adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1777. It set up a weak central government consisting of a congress with limited legislative power and virtually no authority over the execution of its laws. (page 41)

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collective dilemma: A conflict between group goals and individual goals or self-interest. (page 10) collective-action problem: A situation in which people would be better off if they all cooperated; however, any individual has an incentive not to cooperate as long as the others are cooperating. (page 13)

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authoritarianism: A political system in which there is no expectation that the government represents the people, and the institutions of government do not give the people a direct voice in who will lead. (page 24)

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commerce clause: An enumerated power listed in Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution that grants Congress the power to...