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In which Craig Benzine introduces a brand new Crash Course about U.S. Government and Politics! This course will provide you with an overview of how the government of the United States is supposed to function, and we'll get into how it actually does function. The two aren't always the same thing. We'll be learning about the branches of government, politics, elections, political parties, pizza ...
Today, Craig is going to talk about something you fans out there have been demanding for months - money in politics. Specifically, we're going to talk about special interest groups and their role in the U.S. political system. Special interest groups are groups of individuals that make policy-related appeals to the government - like the NRA, AARP, or the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. It's all ...
How Presidents Govern: Crash Course Government and Politics #14. This week Craig Benzine talks about how the president gets things done. Filling the role of the executive branch is a pretty big job – much too big for just one person. It’s so big that the president employs an entire federal bureaucracy! Today, we’re just going to focus on ...
In this episode of Crash Course Government & Politics, Craig Benzine provides an overview of civil rights and civil liberties. Often these terms are used interchangeably, but they are actually very different. Our civil liberties, contained in the Bill of Rights, once only protected us from the federal government, but slowly these liberties have been incorporated to protect us from the states.
In which Craig Benzine teaches you about federalism, or the idea that in the United States, power is divided between the national government and the 50 state...
In which John Green teaches you about the United States Constitution. During and after the American Revolutionary War, the government of the new country oper...
Judicial Review: Crash Course Government and Politics #21. Today, Craig Benzine is going to tell you about the Supreme Court’s most important case, Marbury v. Madison, and how the court granted itself the power of judicial review. Judicial review is the power to examine and invalidate actions of the legislative and executive branches.
