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1. An explanation of the decision of the Supreme Court or any other appellate court.
Opinion of the Court
Racial profiling
Trust
Patronage
2. The tendency in elections to focus on the personal attributes of a candidate - such as his/her strengths - weaknesses - background - experience - and visibility.
National tide
Extradition
Due process
Candidate appeal
3. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Keynesian economics
National debt
Special or select committee
Spoils system
4. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Executive privilege
Federal Register
Dealignment
Affirmative action
5. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
National party convention
Economic sanctions
Tax expenditure
White primary
6. Congress appropriates a certain sum - which is allocated to state and local units and sometimes to nongovernmental agencies - based on applications from those who wish to participate. Examples are grants by the National Science Foundation to universi
Project grants
Equal protection clause
Midterm election
Permissive federalism
7. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
Amicus curiae brief
Protectionism
Isolationism
Categorical-formula grants
8. Media that emphasize the news.
Isolationism
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
News media
Redistributive policy
9. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Natural rights
Libertarian party
Bill of attainder
Excise tax
10. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Referendum
Winner-take-all system
Political party
Regulations
11. A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of camp
Interstate compact
National debt
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Search warrant
12. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
Australian ballot
Selected perception
Due process
Regressive tax
13. Legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one states to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.
Central clearance
Winner-take-all system
Libertarianism
Extradition
14. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Party convention
Majority rule
Cycle of decreasing influence
Delegate
15. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.
Dual citizenship
National debt
Photo ops
Attentive public
16. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Closed shop
Monetary policy
Creative federalism
Turnout
17. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
National tide
Federalists
Override
Interstate compact
18. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
'Necessary and proper' clause
Realism
527 organizations
Hold
19. The difference between the revenues raised annually from sources of income other than borrowing and the expenditures of government - including paying the interest on past borrowing.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Deficit
Enumerated powers
Majority rule
20. A writ issued by a magistrate that authorizes the police to search a particular place or person - specifying the place to be searched and the objects to be seized.
Impeachment
Vouchers
Search warrant
Virginia Plan
21. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Nonpartisan election
Presidential ticket
Discharge petition
Original jurisdiction
22. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Race
Libertarianism
Winner-take-all system
Trust
23. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Social insurance
Medicaid
Conference committee
Tariff
24. The legislative leader selected by the majority party who helps plan party strategy - confers with other party leaders - and tries to keep members of the party in line.
Civil disobedience
Majority leader
Photo ops
Obscenity
25. An election during periods of expanded suffrage and change in the economy and society that proves to be a turning point - redefining the agenda of politics and the alignment of voters within parties.
Realigning election
Socialism
Monopoly
Libel
26. The inclination to focus on national issues - rather than local issues - in an election campaign. The impact of the national tide can be reduced by the nature of the candidates on the ballot who might have differentiated themselves from their party o
Pocket veto
National tide
Substantive due process
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
27. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendments to bills or provides that only members of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments.
Hard money
Selective incorporation
Closed rule
Selective exposure
28. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Impeachment
Conference committee
Excise tax
Appellate jurisdiction
29. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Quid pro quo
Isolationism
Democracy
Entitlements
30. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Weapons of mass destruction
Antifederalists
Environmental impact statement
Conference committee
31. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Suffrage
Isolationism
Whip
Justiciable dispute
32. A type of policy that provides benefits to all Americans.
Writ of mandamus
Collective bargaining
Distributive policy
Caucus
33. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Medicare
Separation of powers
Stare decisis
Pluralism
34. The principle of a two-house legislature.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Popular sovereignty
Contract clause
Bicameralism
35. The rule of precedent - whereby a rule or law contained in a judicial decision is commonly viewed as binding on judges whenever the same question is presented.
Demographics
Central clearance
Safe seat
Stare decisis
36. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Iron triangle
Bundling
Obscenity
Independent agency
37. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Senatorial courtesy
Federal mandate
Devolution revolution
Open rule
38. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Interested money
Regulatory taking
Civil disobedience
National tide
39. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Writ of habeas corpus
Isolationism
Distributive policy
The Federalist
40. A decision made by a higher court such as a circuit court of appeals or the Supreme Court that is binding on all other federal courts.
Cooperative federalism
Precedent
Issue network
Fiscal policy
41. Trade status granted as part of an international trade policy that gives a nation the same favorable trade concessions and tariffs that the best trading partners receive.
Independent expenditure
Speaker
Libel
Normal trade relations
42. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Federal grants may establish certain conditions that extend to all activities supported by federal funds - regardless of their source. The first and most famous of these is Title VI of the 196
Opinion of the Court
Centralists
Cross-cutting requirements
Liberalism
43. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Ethnicity
Uncontrollable spending
Soft money
Plurality
44. 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.
Judicial activism
Federalists
Constituents
Tariff
45. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Presidential ticket
Override
Congressional-executive agreement
Socialism
46. A jury of 12 to 23 persons who - in private - hear evidence presented by the government to determine whether persons shall be required to stand trial. If the jury believes there is sufficient evidence that a crime was committed - it issues an indictm
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Plea bargain
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Grand jury
47. 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.
Obscenity
Patronage
Photo ops
Libertarianism
48. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Government corporation
Realigning election
Sedition
Weapons of mass destruction
49. Initial proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by the Virginia delegation for a strong central government with a bicameral legislature dominated by the big states.
Fighting words
Free rider
Virginia Plan
Monopoly
50. Constitutional grant of powers that enables each of the three branches of government to check some acts of the others and therefore ensure that no branch can dominate.
Checks and balances
Gender gap
General election
Justiciable dispute
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