Study Guide for U.S. Government

Chapters 10,11,12 &13

Chapter 10-The Media Chapter 12-Presidency

First Amendment Protections of the Press Qualifications for office

Media- defined Executive functions/powers

Criticism of Media Chomsky and Parenti Veto

Fairness Doctrine Institutional Presidency

Prior restraint Vice President/duties

FCC Honeymoon period

Libel EOP/ Cabinet

Slander Impeachment Process

Functions of the mass media 1973 War Powers Act

Sullivan rule/ NY.Times v. Sullivan 1964 Electoral College System

Objective/Interpretive Reporting

Chapter 11-Congress Chapter13-Bureaucracy

Filibuster/ Cloture Bureaucracy defined

Divided government Weber's definition of

Constituency Bureaucracy

Partisanship Reasons for expanding

Pork barrel bureaucracy

Incumbency Criticisms of Bureaucracy

Total # of members in Congress Relationship between

Amendment giving D.C electoral vote bureaucracy and democracy

Majority/ Minority Leaders/ Whips Bureaucratic Accountability:

Differences between house and senate Sunset Laws

Speaker of the House Whistleblowing

Committee System Executive Office

Majority party/Minority party

Reapportionment/ Redistricting

How a bill becomes law