How does the federal government spend money for purposes that are not authorized by the Constitution?

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Bell Ringer 10-22-2007

• How does the federal government spend money for
  purposes that are not authorized by the
  Constitution?
• Identify the four reasons that federal money
  seems so attractive to state officials.
• 60-62

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Bell Ringer 10-23-2007

• What is the difference between revenue sharing
  and categorical grants?
• Pages 63 through top of 65

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October 25, 2007

• What is the difference between a conditions of
  aid and mandate?
• Page 66

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Bell Ringer 11-5-2007

• According to Alexis de Tocqueville, why did a
  democratic republic take root in the United
  States but not in other countries that copied the
  US Constitution?
• Page 76

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Bell Ringer 11-6-2007

• List the contributions to U.S. political culture
  made by the Revolution, by the nations religious
  heritages, and by the family.
• Page 84 (The Sources of Political Culture) to
  page 86 (The Culture War)

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Bell Ringer 11-8-2007

• What is class consciousness?
• What is the difference between being orthodox or
  progressive?
• What are the two major changes in American
  society?
• Pages 86(culture war) to page 87 (Mistrust of
  Government)

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Bell Ringer 11-9-2007

• Explain what is meant by equality of
  opportunity but not equality of results.
• Page 79 (Economic System)

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Bell Ringer 11-13-2007

• List the three questions that are raised about
  our political culture.
• When listing the second question discuss what
  Gunnar Mydral says bout this question.
• Start Page 77 (The Political System) and stop at
  page 79 (The economic system)

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Bell Ringer 11-14-2007

• When it comes to policy attitudes about the
  Economic System, how do Donald Kinder and David
  Sears differ from Paul M. Sniderman and Michael
  Gray Hagen?
• What is the Individualist View?
• Read the Economic System Pages 80-81

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Bell Ringer 11-19-2007

• What role did the Framers o f the Constitution
  think public opinion should play in American
  democracy?
• Pages 155-156

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Bell Ringer 11-26-2007

• What is opinion saliency?
• What is opinion stability?
• What is opinion-policy congruence?
• Page 157

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Bell Ringer 11-28-2007

• What is political ideology?
• What are the two ways political scientists
  measure the extent to which people have a
  political ideology?
• Page 167

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Bell Ringer 11-29-2007

• What are the political ideologies of Latin
  Americans (Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans)
• What are the political ideologies of Asia
  Americans (Japanese, Koreans)?
• Pages 164-167

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Bell Ringer 11-30-2007

• What was the meaning of a liberal and a
  conservative before Franklin Roosevelt and the
  New Deal?
• Beginning around the Time of Franklin Roosevelts
  New Deal how did the meaning of liberal and
  conservative change?
• Read 167-171 stop at political elites

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Bell Ringer 12-3-2007

• Explain how information and peers are two reasons
  how citizens display ideological consistency on
  the conventional liberal-conservative spectrum
• (pages171-172)