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advertising statements
  • symbolic speech
  • Income transfers
  • commercial speech
  • In-kind subsidies
When studies are conducted to see what happens after a policy is implemented
  • National security policy
  • Defense policy
  • Policy evaluation
  • Policy adoption
Sending experts to aid other nations in areas of agricultural, engineering or business
  • Technical assistance
  • Income transfers
  • Keynesian economics
  • Radio and television
First step in solving a public problem
  • The right to legal counsel and to remain silent
  • Environmental protection agency
  • No unreasonable or unwarranted searches or seizures
  • For people to become aware of the problem
One of the problems for the state department domestically is that _________
  • Intelligence community
  • Military industrial complex
  • It has only negative constituents
  • Federal open market committee
Increased government spending during times of economic downturns
  • After the Great Depression
  • Keynesian economics
  • Eliminate mass poverty
  • prior restraint
Defamation in writing
  • civil liberties
  • Libel
  • Diplomacy
  • True
Part of executive branch that acts as a coordinator among foreign, defense and intelligence organizations
  • True
  • Technical assistance
  • The national security council
  • Environmental protection agency
Discussion of a proposal by governmental officials and the public
  • Policy formulation
  • National security policy
  • Wallace v. Jaffree
  • Fiscal policy
When america took on the responsibility of stimulating and stabilizing the economy
  • After the Great Depression
  • Radio and television
  • Attentive public
  • clear and present danger test
expression may restricted if evidence exists that such expression would cause a condition which would endanger the public
  • Radio and television
  • Eliminate mass poverty
  • Attentive public
  • clear and present danger test
states that the protections of the bill of rights apply to state governments through the 14th amendment due process clause
  • Environmental impact statement
  • incorporation theory
  • Moral idealism
  • Environmental protection agency
In order for a public official to obtain damage awards under state libel laws, he or she must_______________
  • prior restraint
  • Attentive public
  • Prove actual malice
  • The national security council
Mutually beneficial relationship between the armed forces and defense contractors
  • Policy implementation
  • Policy adoption
  • Declined dramatically since WW2
  • Military industrial complex
personal freedoms that are protected for all individuals
  • Income transfers
  • Radio and television
  • prior restraint
  • civil liberties
Limits the presidents use of troops in military action without congressional approval
  • gitlow v. new york
  • War powers act
  • State department
  • 14th amendment
Used to restrict the publication of news about a trial in progress
  • Gag orders
  • civil liberties
  • Through senate
  • Agenda building
Using changes is the amount of money in circulation to alter credit markets, employment and rate of inflation
  • Attentive public
  • Through senate
  • Budget deficit
  • Keynesian economics
False statement that harms the good reputation of another
  • Slander
  • Accounted for almost 95% of the understandings reached between the US and other nations
  • Through senate
  • Radio and television
An advisory body to the president on foreign policy matters
  • Department of defense
  • Nebraska press association v stuart
  • With the president and those agencies which advise him on foreign policy matters
  • National security council
nonverbal expression of beliefs
  • symbolic speech
  • Radio and television
  • civil liberties
  • Keynesian economics
The federal program that provides assistance to elderly and disabled persons
  • Supplemental security income
  • Budget deficit
  • bad-tendency rule
  • Eliminate mass poverty
freedoms may be curtailed if there is a possibility that such expression might lead to some evil
  • Income transfers
  • Budget deficit
  • Attentive public
  • bad-tendency rule
Created to bring the military establishment under the jurisdiction of a civilian head (larger than any other federal department)
  • Intelligence community
  • Negative constituents
  • Department of defense
  • With the president and those agencies which advise him on foreign policy matters
Designed to protect the independence and political intergrity of the us
  • National security policy
  • religious freedom restoration act
  • Federal reserve system
  • 14th amendment
Allows citizens the right to obtain copies of personal records collected by federal agencies
  • Privacy act of 1974
  • incorporation theory
  • Income transfers
  • Welfare reform act 1996
sought to overturn Oregon v. Smith and required governments to accommodate religious conduct
  • Federal reserve system
  • religious freedom restoration act
  • Policy implementation
  • 14th amendment
establishment clause in the first amendment
  • ruled that direct state aid could not be used to subsidize religious instruction
  • True
  • the federal government cannot set up a church
  • False
civil liberties in the US mostly refers to...
  • Accounted for almost 95% of the understandings reached between the US and other nations
  • No unreasonable or unwarranted searches or seizures
  • specific limitations on government outlined in the bill of rights
  • civil liberties
The executive agency/dept that is most directly concerned with foreign affairs
  • Department of defense
  • Intelligence community
  • State department
  • Temporary assistance to needy families
Organization most concerned with monetary policy
  • Foreign policy
  • the communications decency act of 1996 and the children's online protections act of 1998
  • Federal reserve system
  • Intelligence community
True start of the national government involvement in pollution problems
  • prior restraint
  • Diplomacy
  • Privacy act of 1974
  • 1969
Presidents are successful in getting treaties _______________
  • prior restraint
  • Agenda building
  • Through senate
  • Radio and television
Methods of transferring income from the relatively well to do to the relatively poor
  • bad-tendency rule
  • Budget deficit
  • Through senate
  • Income transfers
affirmed the no prior restraint doctrine
  • Planned parenthood v. Casey
  • It has only negative constituents
  • osborne v ohio
  • new york times v. united states
The us has sustained enough economic growth to __________
  • Environmental protection agency
  • After the Great Depression
  • In-kind subsidies
  • Eliminate mass poverty
Set of policies that direct the scale and size of the American armed forces
  • Fiscal policy
  • Domestic policy
  • Policy adoption
  • Defense policy
Sees each nation acting principally in its own interest
  • Prove actual malice
  • incorporation theory
  • Political realism
  • The national security council
Groups that primarily mandate the quality of americas air and water
  • prior restraint
  • For people to become aware of the problem
  • clear and present danger test
  • Environmental protection agency
Federal government appropriates/spends more in total in a year than it collects in revenues from taxes/ sources
  • bad-tendency rule
  • civil liberties
  • Through senate
  • Budget deficit
Limits on conduct of police and prosecutors include
  • Through senate
  • Environmental protection agency
  • Keynesian economics
  • No unreasonable or unwarranted searches or seizures
This requires a cost benefit analysis of major federal actions which could affect the quality of the environment
  • Attentive public
  • clear and present danger test
  • Income transfers
  • Environmental impact statement
Since WW2 executive agreements have _________________
  • Attentive public
  • Accounted for almost 95% of the understandings reached between the US and other nations
  • Environmental protection agency
  • Slander
The nations external goals and the techniques and strategies to achieve them
  • Fiscal policy
  • Policy formulation
  • osborne v ohio
  • Foreign policy
Central Intelligence Agency, national security agency and the defense intelligence agency
  • Declined dramatically since WW2
  • Temporary assistance to needy families
  • State department
  • Intelligence community
Limited most welfare recipients to 2 yrs of assistance and lifetime recipients to 5 yrs
  • Income transfers
  • Privacy act of 1974
  • Welfare reform act 1996
  • incorporation theory
protected flag burning as a form of symbolic speech
  • Nebraska press association v stuart
  • osborne v ohio
  • texas v. johnson
  • gitlow v. new york
Using changes in taxation and spending policies to affect overall business activity
  • Foreign policy
  • Defense policy
  • Domestic policy
  • Fiscal policy
State administrated program in which grants from the national government are given to the states to provide assistance to those eligible to receive welfare benefits
  • religious freedom restoration act
  • State department
  • Department of defense
  • Temporary assistance to needy families
The process of getting the government aware an issue requires action
  • Through senate
  • Gag orders
  • prior restraint
  • Agenda building
the supreme court case that declared authorizing one minute of silence in all public schools for prayer (because it endorses religion) unconstitutional in Alabama
  • Cruzan v. Director
  • Wallace v. Jaffree
  • Foreign policy
  • texas v. johnson
Public plans that concern internal issues of national importance
  • Policy evaluation
  • Domestic policy
  • Fiscal policy
  • Policy formulation
Choosing a specific strategy from the proposals being discussed
  • Policy evaluation
  • Defense policy
  • Domestic policy
  • Policy adoption
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