US Government

What is in this deck

With this deck you learn how American government actually runs: federalism and the clauses that stretched it, judicial review and the levels of scrutiny, Congress, the presidency, the bureaucracy and elections.

Federalism is the whole design in one word: two levels of government, each acting directly on the same citizens, neither able to abolish the other.

100 cards. The enumerated, implied and reserved powers and the cases that stretched them. Judicial review, which is not in the Constitution and was established by the Court itself. The filibuster, reconciliation and why a discharge petition almost never succeeds. Then rights: incorporation one case at a time, the three levels of scrutiny, and why the level of scrutiny usually decides the outcome before the arguments begin.

This is the institutions deck, not the text. The Constitution's own wording, article by article, is a separate deck; this one is about how the machine actually runs.

The categories decide what comes up: start with “Behaviour” alone and add the rest when you are ready.

What you learn

• Federalism, and the clause that stretched it
• Judicial review, scrutiny and the cases behind them
• Congress: filibuster, reconciliation, oversight
• The presidency, the bureaucracy and the iron triangle
• Elections, the Electoral College and campaign money

The categories

14 categories sort the 100 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.

1. Behaviour
2. Bureaucracy
3. Congress
4. Courts
5. Elections
6. Executive
7. Foreign policy
8. Foundations
9. Groups
10. Media
11. Parties
12. Policy
13. Public opinion
14. Rights

Learning with Qardbox

You see a card, you think, you turn it over and say whether you knew it. A round asks nothing more of you, and how the app works out the next date from that is on the page about FSRS-6.

What sits comes back less often, what wobbles comes back soon. You set a daily goal, and when nothing is due the app tells you exactly that instead of inventing work for you. How a round goes is shown on the learning page.

Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no ads. After the purchase the deck sits in your library like any other subject and can be studied, reordered and extended just like your own.

What it costs, and what it doesn’t

Qardbox itself costs nothing, and it stays that way. Every function is there from the start, with no subscription, no ads and no tiers; what that rests on is on the page about what it costs.

Your own cards stay unlimited, and decks from friends or from the family you read in without a limit, from a file as well. You do not need this deck in order to learn with Qardbox.

It is a shortcut: 100 checked cards for €1.29, once, with Family Sharing. The work you would otherwise do is already done. The App Store shows the price in your currency.