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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Entitlements
Executive privilege
Divided government
Monopoly
2. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Interstate compact
Social capital
'Necessary and proper' clause
3. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Majority rule
Open shop
Closed primary
Hatch Act
4. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Antifederalists
Theory of deterrence
Executive agreement
Tax expenditure
5. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Antitrust legislation
Logrolling
Iron triangle
Popular sovereignty
6. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Judicial restraint
Unitary system
Antitrust legislation
Demographics
7. 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.
Devolution revolution
Free rider
Justiciable dispute
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
8. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.
Criminal law
Government corporation
Medical savings account
Constitutional Convention
9. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Adversary system
Means-tested entitlements
Independent expenditure
Petit jury
10. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Central clearance
Entitlements
Police powers
Bipartisanship
11. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Closed shop
Lobbyist
Line item veto
Closed shop
12. A secret ballot printed by the state.
Dual citizenship
Australian ballot
Presidential ticket
Prior restraint
13. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Free exercise clause
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Antifederalists
Federal mandate
14. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.
Socialism
Uncontrollable spending
Hard money
Closed rule
15. The authority of a court to hear a case 'in the first instance.'
Permissive federalism
Nonprotected speech
Sales tax
Original jurisdiction
16. Clause in the Constitution that states that 'Congress should have the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers. . . .' This clause is also known as the elastic clause as is a major and significant p
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17. The president's annual statement to Congress and the nation.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Indictment
State of the Union Address
Popular sovereignty
18. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Uncontrollable spending
Political action committee (PAC)
Writ of habeas corpus
Jim Crow laws
19. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Civil law
Soft power
Caucus
Senatorial courtesy
20. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Libertarianism
Australian ballot
Constitutional Convention
21. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
Interstate compact
Centralists
Caucus
Virginia Plan
22. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
Whip
Substantive due process
Conference committee
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
23. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Women's suffrage
Manifest destiny
Civil disobedience
Congressional-executive agreement
24. An official who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of legislator.
Delegate
Weapons of mass destruction
Primary election
Winner-take-all system
25. Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787 - protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out.
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26. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Executive privilege
Social insurance
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Executive agreement
27. 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.
Majority rule
Movement
Inherent powers
Veto
28. Implies that although federalism provides 'a sharing of power and authority between the national and state governments - the state's share rests upon the permission and permissiveness of the national government.'
Sound bites
Double jeopardy
Extradition
Permissive federalism
29. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
Caucus
Multilateralism
Bureaucrat
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
30. The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals - groups - and parties can spend unlimited amounts in campaigns for or against candidates as long as they operate independently from the candidates. When an individual - group - or party does so - they are
Independent expenditure
Minor party
Constitutional Convention
Logrolling
31. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
De jure segregation
Override
Pocket veto
Party convention
32. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Unitary system
Primary election
Logrolling
Socioeconomic status (SES)
33. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Marbury v. Madison
Right of expatriation
Poll tax
Defendant
34. Promoting a particular position or an issue paid for by interest groups or individuals but not candidates. Much issue advocacy is often electioneering for or against a candidate - and until 2004 had not been subject to any regulation.
Issue advocacy
Procedural due process
Majority
Caucus
35. A rising public approval of the president that follows a crisis as Americans 'rally 'round the flag' and the chief executive.
Articles of Confederation
Divided government
Civil disobedience
Rally point
36. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Joint committee
Natural rights
Party identification
Political ideology
37. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that the government cannot interfere with speech unless the speech presents a clear and present danger that it will lead to evil or illegal acts.
Public assistance
Clear and present danger test
Chief of staff
Social insurance
38. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.
Preemption
Treaty
Political predisposition
Indictment
39. The cluster of presidential staff agencies that help the president carry out his responsibilities. Currently the office includes the Office of Management and Budget - the Council of Economic Advisers - and several other units.
Executive Office of the President
Environmental impact statement
Issue advocacy
Jim Crow laws
40. The powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow out of the very existence of the national government.
Independent expenditures
Mandate
Random sample
Inherent powers
41. Legislative or executive review of a particular government program or organization. Can be in response to a crisis of some kind or part of routine review.
Three-fifths compromise
Candidate appeal
Libertarian party
Oversight
42. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Australian ballot
Recall
Parliamentary system
Regulation
43. An official who is expected to vote independently based on his or her judgment of the circumstances; one interpretation of the role of the legislator.
Extradition
Implementation
Trustee
Reinforcing cleavages
44. Statement required by Federal law from all agencies for any project using Federal funds to assess the potential affect of the new construction or development on the environment.
Defendant
Medicaid
Public opinion
Environmental impact statement
45. Democratic party primary in the old 'one-party South' that was limited to white people and essentially constituted an election; ruled unconstitutional in Smith v. Allwright (1944).
White primary
Crossover voting
Logrolling
Representative democracy
46. A policy adopted by the Bush administration in 2001 that asserts America's right to attack any nation that has weapons of mass destruction that might be used against U.S. interests at home or abroad.
Policy agenda
Public assistance
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Bush Doctrine
47. Presidential staff the agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Unemployment
Rule-making process
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Entitlements
48. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Natural rights
Issue network
Initiative
Public defender system
49. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.
General election
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Gross domestic product (GDP)
New Jersey Plan
50. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Weapons of mass destruction
Party identification
Central clearance
Antitrust legislation