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What is an iron triangle?

Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances in the Constitution

What are the powers of Congress?

What were the committees of the 111th Congress?

What are the key differences between the House of Representatives and the Senate?

The Bill of Rights (Arranged by Function)

What can we learn from presidential personalities?

Recent Presidents

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Recent Presidents

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Recent Presidents

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Who were the U.S. presidents?

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Who were the U.S. presidents?

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What kinds of cases does the U.S. Supreme Court hear?

Constitutional Powers of the President

The Major Social Welfare Programs

What are the standards of review fashioned by the court under the equal protection clause?

What are the individual contribution limits under BCRA?

How is the federal budget made?

What are the characteristics of selected interest groups?

How do PACs allocate their campaign contributions?Source: Center for Responsive Politics, www.opensecrets.org/lobby, 2008.

How have American political parties developed?Source: Harold W. Stanley and Richard G. Niemi, Vital Statistics on American Politics, 2007–2008 (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2007). Updated by the authors.

What are the stages of the public policy process?

What does a realignment look like?

Where do Americans get their news?Source: Pew Internet and Public Life Project, “Understanding the Participatory News Consumer.” (March 1, 2010): www.pewinternet.org/ Reports/2010/online-news.aspx.

How does the Federal Reserve System work?Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

What are some of America's major third parties?