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1. 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.
Natural law
Extradition
Faction
Petit jury
2. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Unfunded mandates
Cross-cutting cleavages
Soft money
Divided government
3. 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.
Standing committee
Nonpartisan election
National supremacy
Demographics
4. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Civil disobedience
Bicameralism
Categorical-formula grants
Federal Register
5. A type of policy that takes benefits (usually through taxes) from one group of Americans and gives them to another (usually through spending).
Issue advocacy
Federalists
Redistributive policy
Libertarian party
6. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Hard money
Fighting words
Interested money
Court of appeals
7. A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights.
Reapportionment
Australian ballot
Due process clause
Civil law
8. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
National supremacy
Political action committee (PAC)
Conference committee
Speaker
9. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Earmarks
Executive order
Bicameralism
Soft money
10. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Executive agreement
Spoils system
Merit system
Decentralists
11. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Monetary policy
Recall
Reapportionment
Petit jury
12. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Turnout
Civil disobedience
Free rider
Single-member district
13. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Ethnocentrism
Express powers
Incumbent
Bipartisanship
14. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Soft money
Constitutional Convention
Enumerated powers
Winner-take-all system
15. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Plea bargain
Administrative discretion
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Dual citizenship
16. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
New Jersey Plan
Equal protection clause
Exclusionary rule
Impoundment
17. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Selective incorporation
Civil law
Decentralists
Inflation
18. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Inflation
Marble cake federalism
Executive privilege
Executive agreement
19. 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.
Bicameralism
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Soft money
Checks and balances
20. Compromise agreement by states at the Constitutional Convention for a bicameral legislature with a lower house in which representation would be based on population and an upper house in which each state would have two senators.
Connecticut Compromise
American dream
Racial profiling
Inflation
21. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Deregulation
Party caucus
Parliamentary system
Speaker
22. The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777 - ratified in 1781 - and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.
Articles of Confederation
Coattail effect
Senatorial courtesy
Devolution revolution
23. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Bureaucracy
Department
National party convention
Permissive federalism
24. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
Race
Open shop
Idealism
Centralists
25. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Free rider
Opinion of the Court
Judicial review
Cloture
26. 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
Cross-cutting requirements
Gender gap
Dissenting opinion
Interest group
27. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Monetarism
Idealism
Exclusionary rule
Direct primary
28. A type of policy that provides benefits to all Americans.
Union shop
Distributive policy
Dealignment
Social capital
29. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Grand jury
Judicial review
Political party
Keynesian economics
30. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Substantive due process
Literacy test
Cabinet
31. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Joint committee
Commercial speech
Majority rule
Leadership PAC
32. Formal orders issued by the president to direct action by the Federal bureaucracy.
Naturalization
Executive orders
Community policing
Party caucus
33. 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
Candidate appeal
Nonpartisan election
Independent expenditures
Political action committee (PAC)
34. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Excise tax
Voter registration
Constitutional Convention
Random sample
35. 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.
Tariff
Natural rights
Monopoly
Union shop
36. A tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
Closed shop
Judicial activism
Progressive tax
Entitlements
37. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Monetary policy
Party identification
Medical savings account
38. Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs - rather than a layer cake - or dual federalism - with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government.
Marble cake federalism
Lobbying
Indictment
Inflation
39. 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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40. 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.
Adversary system
Executive Office of the President
Permissive federalism
Deregulation
41. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Keynesian economics
Opinion of the Court
Separation of powers
42. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Faction
Defendant
Implementation
Impoundment
43. The difference between the political opinions or political behavior of men and of women.
Gender gap
Lobbyist
Pluralism
Value-added tax (VAT)
44. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Sedition
Affirmative action
Pocket veto
Marbury v. Madison
45. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Supreme Court has interpreted this to forbid governmental support to any or all religions.
Establishment clause
Eminent domain
Constitutional democracy
Indexing
46. 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.
Laissez-faire economics
Fundamentalists
Antitrust legislation
Deficit
47. An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Free rider
Grand jury
Selective incorporation
Judicial review
48. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Faction
Policy agenda
Federalists
Majority rule
49. Proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by William Paterson of New Jersey for a central government with a single-house legislature in which each state would be represented equally.
New Jersey Plan
National Intelligence Director
Vouchers
Preferred position doctrine
50. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Court of appeals
Fighting words
Natural rights
Constitutional democracy