Jeopardy Template

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Todays Political Parties
Interest Groups
Constitutional Principles
Public Opinion
Bill of Rights
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Row 1---100 Question

• -Generic term for what the majority of the public
  may believe about an issue, but it can be very
  misleading as a majority may represent only 51.

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Row 1---100 Answer

• -public opinion

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Row 1---200 Question

• -This is a term for television, radio,
  newspapers, and magazines that influence opinion.

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• -mass media

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Row 1---300 Question

• -This term represents how we attempt to measure
  the opinion of the public?

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• -public opinion poll

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Row 1---400 Question

• -This term describes how we try to measure the
  publics opinion in a fair and consistent manner
  to get the best results?

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Row 1---400 Answer

• -random sample

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Row 1---500 Question

• -Term for a group of people with similar beliefs
  about an issue.

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• -interest group

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Row 2---100 Question

• -Term that refers to a person is has already
  formed an opinion or listens only to one side.

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Row 2---100 Answer

• -biased

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Row 2---200 Question

• -This term refers to a person who has not made a
  decision and is willing to listen to all sides of
  an issue.

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• -impartial

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Row 2---300 Question

• -This is the act of trying to influence
  legislators to support a certain issue.

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• -lobbying

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Row 2---400 Question

• -Name an interest group that represents a
  particular group of people?

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Row 2---400 Answer

• -

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Row 2---500 Question

• -Name an interest group that represents a
  particular interest or cause?

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Row 3---100 Question

• -Name one way in which parties help keep citizens
  informed?

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Row 3---200 Question

• -Name one way in which parties help keep citizens
  informed?

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• -

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• -This term describes a movement that is begun by
  common people?

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• -grassroots movement

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Row 3---400 Question

• -These are elections are do not allow the use of
  political parties---usually for position that are
  seen as non-political such as school boards?

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Row 3---400 Answer

• -non-partisan elections

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Row 3---500 Question

• -Name one reason why parties are weaker today
  than in the past?

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• -less loyalty, non-partisan elections, mass media
  influences

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Row 4---100 Question

• -Name the concept that all three branches of
  government are designed so that they have the
  ability to stop other branches from becoming
  abusive?

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Row 4---100 Answer

• -checks and balances

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• -This term means that people have the right to
  rule themselves through the democratic process of
  voting?

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• -popular sovereignty

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Row 4---300 Question

• -What term describes the system of having
  multiple governments on the national, state, and
  local levels?

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• -federalism

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Row 4---400 Question

• -These are powers that are shared by all levels
  of government such as the power to tax, pass
  laws, and enforce laws?

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• -concurrent powers

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• -These are powers that are only given to the
  states such as education, marriage laws, zoning
  regulations?

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• -reserved powers

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Row 5---100 Question

• -List all five parts of the 1st Amendment?

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Row 5---100 Answer

• -speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition

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Row 5---200 Question

• -What right does the 2nd protect?

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• -right to bear arms

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Row 5---300 Question

• -The 5th describes this power of the government
  to take land from citizens when needed for public
  benefit as long as the citizen is compensated.

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• -eminent domain

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Row 5---400 Question

• -This right says that all citizens are guaranteed
  fair treatment by the government?

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• -due process

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Row 5---500 Question

• -This is the right of all citizens to not be
  charged with the same crime after they have been
  acquitted by a jury of that same crime.

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Row 5---500 Answer

• -double jeopardy