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1. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Cross-cutting requirements
Laissez-faire economics
Majority rule
2. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Means-tested entitlements
Closed shop
Preemption
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
3. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Recall
Property rights
Oversight
Cross-cutting requirements
4. Presidential staff the agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Shays's Rebellion
Earmarks
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Socioeconomic status (SES)
5. The head of the White House staff.
Proportional representation
Chief of staff
Majority-minority district
Statism
6. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Keynesian economics
Special or select committee
Faction
Administrative discretion
7. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.
Political culture
Senatorial courtesy
Reinforcing cleavages
Collective bargaining
8. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Means-tested entitlements
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Writ of certiorari
Public policy
9. A combination of entitlement programs - paid for by employer and employee taxes - that includes retirement benefits - health insurance - and support for disabled workers and the children of deceased or disabled workers.
Override
Free exercise clause
Voter registration
Social Security
10. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
Direct primary
Open primary
Conference committee
Sedition
11. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Direct orders
Collective action
Commercial speech
Reinforcing cleavages
12. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
Democratic consensus
Interstate compact
Government corporation
State of the Union Address
13. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Soft money
Capitalism
Democratic consensus
Antifederalists
14. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Cooperative federalism
Judicial activism
Soft money
Bureaucracy
15. A meeting of the members of a party in a legislative chamber to select party leaders and to develop party policy. Called a conference by the Republicans.
Majority-minority district
Party caucus
Monetarism
Ethnocentrism
16. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Regressive tax
Policy agenda
Executive agreement
17. The belief that nations must engage in international problem solving.
Movement
Impoundment
Preemption
Internationalism
18. A provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. Judicial enforcement of such deeds is unconstitutional.
Social Security
Political ideology
Monetary policy
Restrictive covenant
19. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Policy agenda
Full faith and credit clause
Midterm election
Docket
20. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Defendant
Divided government
Offshoring
Gender gap
21. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Iron triangle
Direct primary
Independent expenditure
Annapolis Convention
22. Domination of an industry by a single company; also the company that dominates the industry.
Monopoly
Literacy test
Sound bites
Pocket veto
23. Unlimited and undisclosed spending by an individual or group on communications that do not use words like 'vote for' or 'vote against -' although much of this activity is actually about electing or defeating candidates.
Executive order
Executive privilege
Issue advocacy
Separation of powers
24. 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.'
Administrative discretion
Rule
Constitutional Convention
Permissive federalism
25. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Independent agency
Presidential ticket
Writ of habeas corpus
Preemption
26. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Issue advocacy
Representative democracy
Social capital
Contract clause
27. 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.
Annapolis Convention
Commerce clause
Political party
Constituents
28. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national governments power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity. Building on this constitutional authority - f
National tide
Total and Partial Preemption
Direct orders
Spoils system
29. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Government corporation
Criminal law
Libertarian party
Rule
30. 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.
Crossover sanctions
Adversary system
Safe seat
Virginia Plan
31. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Hard money
Gerrymandering
Restrictive covenant
Appellate jurisdiction
32. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Theocracy
Divided government
Dissenting opinion
Ethnicity
33. 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.
Proportional representation
Extradition
Petit jury
Rule
34. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Divided government
Midterm election
Reapportionment
35. Power of a government to take private property for public use; the U.S. Constitution gives national and state governments this power and requires them to provide just compensation for property so taken.
Eminent domain
Special or select committee
Property rights
Direct democracy
36. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.
Hatch Act
Selective incorporation
Impeachment
Political predisposition
37. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Court of appeals
Special or select committee
Dissenting opinion
Commerce clause
38. The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems.
Rule
Redistributive policy
Hard power
Soft money
39. 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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40. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Presidential election
Executive Office of the President
Referendum
Reform party
41. A president's claim of broad public support.
Executive order
Mandate
Monetary policy
Original jurisdiction
42. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Linkage institutions
Appellate jurisdiction
Conference committee
Obscenity
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.
Due process clause
Ex post facto law
Hatch Act
Trustee
44. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Independent expenditure
Safe seat
Antitrust legislation
Nonpartisan election
45. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Union shop
Prior restraint
Leadership PAC
Hard money
46. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Divided government
Government corporation
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Social Security
47. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Photo ops
Reinforcing cleavages
Obscenity
Senatorial courtesy
48. The current holder of the elected office.
Due process
Confederation
Incumbent
Categorical-formula grants
49. 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.
Isolationism
Amicus curiae brief
Seniority rule
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
50. A minor party founded by Ross Perot in 1995. It focuses on national government reform - fiscal responsibility - and political accountability. It has recently struggled with internal strife and criticism that it lacks an identity.
Selected perception
Hard money
Deficit
Reform party