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1. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Social capital
Attentive public
Political culture
Earmarks
2. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals (each limited to $2000) and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Prospective issue voting
Bundling
Single-member district
American dream
3. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Antitrust legislation
Reform party
Deregulation
Sedition
4. A rising public approval of the president that follows a crisis as Americans 'rally 'round the flag' and the chief executive.
Full faith and credit clause
Bicameralism
Reform party
Rally point
5. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Appellate jurisdiction
Justiciable dispute
Line item veto
Public policy
6. Aid to the poor; 'welfare.'
Public policy
Horse race
Public assistance
Medicaid
7. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
Fiscal federalism
Confederation
Joint committee
Regulations
8. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
De facto segregation
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Quid pro quo
Party registration
9. Formal orders issued by the president to direct action by the Federal bureaucracy.
Executive orders
Oversight
Proportional representation
National tide
10. Constitutional doctrine that whenever conflict occurs between the constitutionally authorized actions of the national government and those of a state or local government - the actions of the federal government will prevail.
Antitrust legislation
National supremacy
Enumerated powers
Deficit
11. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Concurrent powers
Senatorial courtesy
Competitive federalism
Majority rule
12. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibiting state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Women's suffrage
Prospective issue voting
Due process clause
Antifederalists
13. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Name recognition
Unitary system
Party identification
14. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and by how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
Plurality
Total and Partial Preemption
Clear and present danger test
Horse race
15. 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.
Closed primary
Constituents
Oversight
Midterm election
16. Court order directing an official to perform an official duty.
Impeachment
Court of appeals
Writ of mandamus
Hard money
17. 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.
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Safe seat
Earmarks
Executive Office of the President
18. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Issue network
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Three-fifths compromise
Democracy
19. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Establishment clause
Party convention
Interest group
Poll tax
20. Tax required to vote; prohibited for national elections by the Twenty-Fourth Amendment (1964) and ruled unconstitutional for all elections in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966).
Unilateralism
Civil law
Social Security
Poll tax
21. Petition that - if signed by majority of the House of Representatives' members - will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration.
Party registration
Bundling
Direct primary
Discharge petition
22. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
State of the Union Address
Independent expenditure
Marbury v. Madison
Conference committee
23. Stresses federalism as a system of intergovernmental relations in delivering governmental goods and services to the people and calls for cooperation among various levels of government.
Bicameralism
Cooperative federalism
Hard money
Impoundment
24. Electoral system used in electing the president and vice president - in which voters vote for electors pledged to cast their ballots for particular party's candidates.
Seniority rule
Indexing
Electoral college
Public assistance
25. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Annapolis Convention
Progressive tax
Voter registration
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
26. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Double jeopardy
Eminent domain
Bicameralism
Popular consent
27. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Procedural due process
Separation of powers
Iron triangle
Weapons of mass destruction
28. A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting.
Docket
Movement
amicus curiae brief
Majority-minority district
29. Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. By interpretation - the Fifth Amendment imposes the same limitation on the national government. This clause is t
Equal protection clause
Police powers
Chief of staff
Unilateralism
30. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Protectionism
Race
Fiscal federalism
Bill of attainder
31. Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergird them.
De jure segregation
Democratic consensus
Political socialization
Monetarism
32. The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777 - ratified in 1781 - and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.
Regressive tax
Articles of Confederation
President pro tempore
Literacy test
33. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
Majority rule
Cycle of decreasing influence
Trustee
Civil law
34. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Entitlement programs
Vouchers
Social Security
35. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Soft money
Theory of deterrence
Petit jury
Political culture
36. Citizenship in more than one nation.
Appellate jurisdiction
Dual citizenship
Fiscal policy
Democracy
37. The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition.
Minority leader
Regulation
Unfunded mandates
Regulatory taking
38. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Judicial review
Political socialization
Interstate compact
Bureaucracy
39. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. These sanctions permit the use of federal money in one program to influence state and local policy in another. For example - a 1984 act reduced federal highway aid by up to 15 percent for any
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Crossover sanctions
Sedition
Creative federalism
40. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Stare decisis
Hard power
Deregulation
Honeymoon
41. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Turnout
De facto segregation
Coattail effect
Union shop
42. Largely banned party soft money - restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes - and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy.
Hatch Act
Tax expenditure
Senatorial courtesy
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
43. 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.
Deficit
Issue network
Libertarian party
Mandate
44. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Proportional representation
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Political culture
Open primary
45. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Party registration
Docket
Trust
American dream
46. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Parliamentary system
Sales tax
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Plurality
47. Quality or state of a work that taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex by depicting sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and that lacks serious literary - artistic - political - or scientific value.
Means-tested entitlements
White primary
Faction
Obscenity
48. An action taken by Congress to reverse the presidential veto - requiring a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Medical savings account
Unemployment
Override
Natural rights
49. The belief that nations must engage in international problem solving.
Faction
Search warrant
Concurrent powers
Internationalism
50. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Natural rights
Indictment
Override
Interested money