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Midterm Review

U.S. Fundamental Values

  • LED:

    • Liberty
    • Equality
    • Democracy

  • Patriot Act (2001)

  • Health of Democracy

    • Voter Turnout
    • Power Shifting
    • Independent Media

  • Direct Democracy: We the people have direct influence on the outcomes of politics

  • Representative Democracy: National/Federal level

    • Instructed deleate
    • Trustee

  • Initiative: 5% of califs that voted in lsat governers race, proposition come next election

  • Referendum: 90 days to challenge stae laws, 5% of previous voters

  • Recall: Oust from office, requires 12%

Ideologies

  • Liberal: Personal freedom, government good
  • Conservative: Limited government, security and order
  • Socialist: Fully endorse, security, order, government central
  • Libertarians: Minimal government, personal freedom

Immigration

  • 1986 Immigration Reform Act (REAGAN)

  • Visa Classes

    • A1, A2, A3 for reps of foreign governments
    • B1, B2 for visitors
    • F visa for students
    • J1 for exchange visitors and geniuses
    • H1 for professional jobs

  • HR 4437 James Sensebrenner

    • Border Protection, Anti-terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act

  • Arizona SB 1070 Jan Brewer

    • Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act

  • DREAM Act:

    • Development Relief and Education Alien Minors

  • Deferred Aciton for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Obama's Deffered Action

    • prosecutorial discretion towards illegal childhood immigrants

  • Green card marriages

  • Birthing Tourism: gain dual citizenship

Executive Branch

  • Presidency

    • natural born citizen
    • 35 years of age
    • residencey of 14 years before inauguration

  • Powers given to Executive Branch

    • Express: different 'hats' president wears: military commander in chief

    • Delegated: working relationship between congress and white house

    • Inherent: president inherits these powers

      • mobilize military

  • Military Hat

    • Congratss has power to declare war
    • battle instructions between president and congress

  • Judicial Hat

    • Pardon criminals
    • Amensty: forgive group
    • Reprieve: lower sentence

  • Dimplomatic Hat

    • Head of state
    • able to appoint ambassador

  • Executive Hat

    • Executive orders

  • Legislative Hat

    • Gives president power to veto bills

  • Structure of executive branch:

    • US
    • US President
    • Vice President
    • First Lady
    • Executive Office of President
    • National Security Council & Office of Management and Budget

  • Vice President

    • Cast tie breaking of U.S. Senate
    • Succeed President

  • National Securtiy Council: Give president advice

  • Office of Management and Budget

    • Drafting nations budget eahc year

  • 15 departments

    • Department of Agriculture
      • Tom Vilsack
    • Department of Commerce
      • Penny pritzker
    • Department of Defense
      • Chuck Hagel
    • Department of Education
      • Arne Duncan
    • Department of Energy
      • Ernest Moniz
    • Deparment of Health and Human Services
      • Kathleen Sebelius
    • Department of Homeland Security
      • Jeh Johnson
    • Depart of House and Urban Development
      • Shaun Donavan
    • Department of Justice
    • Department of Labor
    • Department of State
    • Department of the Interior
    • Department of the Treasury
    • Department of Transportation
    • Department of Veterans Affairs

  • Governor of California

    • natural born
    • 18 years
    • resident of california

  • Plural Executive

    • Several officials fill an exeuctive administrative function
      • governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, treasurer, etc

Terrorism

  • Domestic

    • static
    • 1 person
    • societal disruption

  • Transnational

    • dynamic
    • network
    • re-interpretation of religion

  • Demonstrative: media attention

  • Destructive: public leaders

  • Suicide: anybody

  • Captured Terrorist

    • Hold suspect in Cuba, GITMO detention camp
    • Give them criminal trial
    • military tribunal
    • keep them in gitmo

  • Nuclear Proliferation

    • Manhattan Project 1945
    • All but 5 countries (US, Russia, Britian, China, France)
    • Israel, India, Pakistan, Iran known to have

Legislative Branch

  • Requirements to run for US Senate

    • 30 years old
    • Resident 9 years
    • natural born/naturalized

  • Requirement to run for US House Seat

    • 25 years old
    • Resident 7 years in home state
    • natural born/naturalized

  • Differences between Senate and House

    • Length of term
    • Number representing each state
      • House 1-53 per state depending on population
      • Senate 2 per state
    • Constituency
      • House: local
      • Senate: local and state

  • Term limits

    • House: 2 years
    • Senate: 6 years

  • Appropriation

    • Amount of money approved by congress in statues (bills) for each agency

-Pork Barrel Spending - Most important opportunity for direct patronage -- uncessary local expenditure on pet projects

  • Log Rolling

    • Legislative practice wherein agreements are made between legislators voting for or against a bill
    • quid pro quo

  • Leadership Strucutre and 113th Congress

    • Senate
      • President: Joe Biden (D)
      • Pro Tempore: Patrick Leahy (D)
      • Majority leader: Harry Reid (D)
      • Minority Leader: Mitch McConnell (R)
    • House
      • Speaker: John Boehner (R)
      • Majority Leader: Erik Cantor (R)
      • Minority Leader: Nancy Pelosi (D)

  • Congress v Calif State Legislature

    • Assembly (80)
    • Min age: 18
    • Resident of calif
    • State senate: 40
    • 12 years term limit Prop 28 (2012)

  • Public Leaders in scandals:

    • Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL): pedophile
    • Governor Elliot Spitzer (D-NY): prostitute
    • Senator David Vitter (R-LA): name appeared most for call girls
    • Senator John Edwareds (D-NC): impregnated videographer
    • Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC): Hiked in Buenos Aires
    • Rod Blagojevic (D-IL): tried selling U.S. Senate seat
    • Arnold Schwarnzenagger (R-CA): impregnated house maid
    • Senator Larry Craig (R-ID): men's restroom
    • Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK): kickbacks government contracts
    • Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY): weiner pics

Judicial Branch

  • Criminal v Civil Law

    • Civil:
      • individuals, organizations, compensation to victim
      • Filed by private party
    • Criminal
      • Crime and legal punishment
      • Filed by government

  • White Collar Crimes (Federal)

    • Tax evasion
    • Extrotion
    • Emebezzlement
    • Racketeering
    • Espionage
    • Drug Trafficking

  • Blue Collar Crimes (State)

    • Murder
    • Assault
    • Battery
    • Kidnapping
    • Child Molestation
    • Robbery
    • Drug Posession

  • Judicial Review:

    • Power of courts to review and if necessary declare actions of the legislative and executive branches as unconstitutional

    • Marbary v Madison

  • Supreme Court Justice

    • No criteria
    • Appointed by President
    • Confirmed by Senate

  • CA State Judicial Council (7)

    • 12 years term (retention election)
    • 10 yrs law experience
    • Appointed by governor
    • Confirmed by Judicial Council

  • Apointees by Obama (Supreme Court)

    • Sotamayor
    • Kagan

  • Felony

    • Serious crime
    • Punished by death or imprisonment in state prison

  • Misdemeanor

    • punishable by imprisonment in county or city jail
    • less than 1 year
    • fine

  • Infraction

    • public offense
    • speed limit
    • parking violations

  • Supreme Court reversed manual recount

    • 14th amendment equal protection (secret ballot)

  • Swing justice in Bush v Gore

    • Sandar O'Connor
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