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1. Financial contributions by individuals or groups in the hope of influencing the outcome of the election and subsequently influencing policy.
Mandate
'Necessary and proper' clause
Interested money
Due process clause
2. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Executive agreement
Democracy
Plea bargain
Issue network
3. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Earmarks
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
National Intelligence Director
Divided government
4. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator refuses to relinquish the floor and thereby delays proceedings and prevents a vote on a controversial issue.
Selective exposure
Filibuster
Independent expenditure
Veto
5. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Suffrage
Double jeopardy
Political party
Ethnocentrism
6. A system of government in which the legislature selects the prime minister or president.
Grand jury
Open primary
Parliamentary system
Libel
7. Money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Executive privilege
Soft money
Procedural due process
Joint committee
8. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Senatorial courtesy
Spoils system
Quid pro quo
Natural rights
9. Tax levied on imports to help protect the nation's industries - labor - or farmers from foreign competition. It can also be used to raise additional revenue.
Cabinet
Manifest destiny
Tariff
Candidate appeal
10. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Proportional representation
Judicial restraint
Majority rule
Political ideology
11. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Rule
Lobbyist
Opinion of the Court
Regulatory taking
12. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Democracy
Clear and present danger test
Marbury v. Madison
Spoils system
13. Legislative act inflicting punishment - including deprivation of property - without a trial - on named individuals or members of a specific group.
Federal mandate
Hard money
Bill of attainder
Majority leader
14. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
Annapolis Convention
Preemption
Executive order
Civil disobedience
15. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Horse race
Implied powers
Due process clause
Public choice
16. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government - promoting a free market economy - a noninterventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in moral - economic - and social life.
Libertarianism
Faction
Federal Reserve System
Cross-cutting requirements
17. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.
Political ideology
Annapolis Convention
Political party
Nonpartisan election
18. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Political culture
Trustee
Minority leader
Restrictive covenant
19. Championed by Ronald Reagan - presumes that the power of the federal government is limited in favor of the broad powers reserved to the states.
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20. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Majority-minority district
Three-fifths compromise
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Whip
21. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
Keynesian economics
Parliamentary system
Collective action
Issue advocacy
22. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Protectionism
Regulation
Racial profiling
Federal mandate
23. The Federal government's primary intelligence officer - responsible for overseeing all national intelligence agencies and providing advice to the President on terrorist threats.
Presidential ticket
Labor injunction
Decentralists
National Intelligence Director
24. A person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to try to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches.
Lobbyist
Adversary system
Proportional representation
Suffrage
25. Advisory council for the president consisting of the heads of the executive departments - the vice president - and a few other officials selected by the president.
American dream
Cabinet
Unfunded mandates
Gender gap
26. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Issue advocacy
Political party
Political ideology
Keynesian economics
27. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Monopoly
Direct primary
Iron triangle
Justiciable dispute
28. The clause in the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Commerce clause
Lobbyist
Closed rule
Writ of habeas corpus
29. The system created by Congress in 1913 to establish banking practices and regulate currency in circulation and the amount of credit available. It consists of 12 regional banks supervised by the Board of Governors. Often called simply the Fed.
Federal Reserve System
Primary election
Executive privilege
Liberalism
30. An international trade organization with more than 130 members - including the United States and the People's Republic of China - that seeks to encourage free trade by lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions.
Unfunded mandates
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Exclusionary rule
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
31. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Concurring opinion
Racial gerrymandering
Commerce clause
Due process
32. A secret ballot printed by the state.
Substantive due process
Australian ballot
Writ of certiorari
Suffrage
33. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Multilateralism
Honeymoon
Bicameralism
Deregulation
34. An opinion that agrees with the majority in a Supreme Court ruling but differs on the reasoning.
Contract clause
Constituents
Soft money
Concurring opinion
35. An opinion disagreeing with a majority in a Supreme Court ruling.
Free rider
Dissenting opinion
Sound bites
Suffrage
36. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Property rights
Lobbying
President pro tempore
Demographics
37. Alternative means of health care in which people or their employers are charged a set amount and the HMO provides health care and covers hospital costs.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Nonprotected speech
Coattail effect
Joint committee
38. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Executive order
Direct democracy
Laissez-faire economics
Public defender system
39. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
Line item veto
Cycle of decreasing influence
Union shop
Hold
40. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Safe seat
Spoils system
Regulation
Caucus
41. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Fundamentalists
Independent agency
Prospective issue voting
Medicaid
42. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Union shop
Deregulation
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Executive privilege
43. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Natural rights
Due process
Congressional-executive agreement
Grand jury
44. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Executive agreement
Divided government
Inherent powers
Party convention
45. Formal orders issued by the president to direct action by the Federal bureaucracy.
Executive orders
Offshoring
Entitlement programs
Clear and present danger test
46. A large body of people interested in a common issue - idea - or concern that is of continuing significance and who are willing to take action. Movements seek to change attitudes or institutions - not just policies.
Department
Commerce clause
Movement
Majority leader
47. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Statism
Attentive public
Immunity
Issue network
48. Clause in the Constitution (Article 4 - Section 1) requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid.
Impoundment
Ethnicity
Entitlement programs
Full faith and credit clause
49. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Naturalization
Bicameralism
Sales tax
Party identification
50. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Indictment
Libel
Closed shop
Community policing