Advanced Knowledge Assignment (Homework #4)

1. What are three major functions of the bureaucracy?
2. Name two types of power bureaucrats have over the other officials in the government.
3. What are three major functions of the judicial branch?
4. Who makes the decision to fill a federal judicial vacancy?
5. How many judges must agree to hear a case before the Supreme Court will take it?
6. What are the two major types of public policies?
7. What is the largest "welfare" program in America?
8. What is the name for a program that provides a government benefit for everyone who meets criteria set by Congress?
9. What is the name for individual liberties that cannot be restrained by government actions?
10. Name two rights considered to be protected by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment?
11. What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?
12. What are three major functions of the political parties?
13. What is the name for a group of political activists who organize to win elections, to operate the government, and to determine public policy?
14. Name two types of third parties.
15. What is the formal name for any of the means of communication that reach very large numbers of people?
16. Why is it difficult to regulate the media?
17. Name two of the tools or methods that the Internet is influencing politics.
18. What are three major functions of the interest groups?
19. Name two types of interest groups.
20. Why is it difficult to regulate lobbying and PACs?

-Audrey Nichols, POS1041, Section 5