American Government and Politics Today, Brief Edition, 2014-2015

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PART II: THE POLITICS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

Chapter 6 Features

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• The Constitutional Basis for American Federalism
  
  
  • Powers of the National Government
  
  
  • Powers of the State Governments
  
  
  • Prohibited Powers
  
  
  • Concurrent Powers
  
  
  • The Supremacy Clause
  
  
  • Interstate Relations
  
  
  
  


• Defining Constitutional Powers—The Early Years
  
  
  • McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
  
  
  • Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
  
  
  • States’ Rights and the Resort to Civil War
  
  
  
  


• The Continuing Dispute over the Division of Power
  
  
  • Dual Federalism
  
  
  • The New Deal and Cooperative Federalism
  
  
  • The Politics of Federalism
  
  
  • Methods of Implementing Cooperative Federalism
  
  
  
  


• Federalism and Today’s Supreme Court
  
  
  • A Trend toward States’ Rights?
  
  
  • Recent Decisions
  
  
  
  


• CHAPTER 4 Civil Liberties Key Terms • Chapter Summary • Test Yourself • CourseMate


• The Bill of Rights
  
  
  • Extending the Bill of Rights to State Governments
  
  
  • Incorporation of the Fourteenth Amendment
  
  
  
  


• Freedom of Religion
  
  
  • The Establishment Clause The Separation of Church and State—
  
  
  • The Free Exercise Clause
  
  
  
  


• Freedom of Expression
  
  
  • No Prior Restraint
  
  
  • The Protection of Symbolic Speech
  
  
  • The Protection of Commercial Speech
  
  
  • Attempts to Ban Subversive or Advocacy Speech
  
  
  • Unprotected Speech: Obscenity
  
  
  • Unprotected Speech: Slander
    
    
    • Assault-Type Weapons? at issue: Should We Ban
    
    
    • Searches and Seizures Your Civil Liberties:
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• The Rights and Status of Gay Males and Lesbians
  
  
  • Growth in the Gay Male and Lesbian Rights Movement
  
  
  • State and Local Laws Targeting Gay Men and Lesbians
  
  
  • “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
  
  
  • Same-Sex Marriage
  
  
  
  


• Socialization, and the Media CHAPTER 6 Public Opinion, Political


• Public Opinion and Political Socialization
  
  
  • Consensus and Divided Opinion
  
  
  • Forming Public Opinion: Political Socialization
  
  
  • The Media and Public Opinion
  
  
  • Political Events and Public Opinion
  
  
  
  


• The Influence of Demographic Factors
  
  
  • Educational Achievement
  
  
  • Economic Status
  
  
  • Religious Denomination
  
  
  • Religious Commitment and Beliefs
  
  
  • Race and Ethnicity
  
  
  • The Hispanic Vote
  
  
  • The Gender Gap
  
  
  • Geographic Region
  
  
  
  


• Measuring Public Opinion
  
  
  • The History of Opinion Polls
  
  
  • Sampling Techniques
  
  
  • The Difficulty of Obtaining Accurate Results
  
  
  • Additional Problems with Polls
  
  
  
  


• Public Opinion and the Political Process
  
  
  • Political Culture and Public Opinion
  
  
  • The Most Important Problems
  
  
  • Public Opinion and Policymaking
  
  
  
  


• The Roles of the Media
  
  
  • The Roles of the Media
  
  
  • Television versus the New Media
    
    
    • of the News Being a Critical Consumer