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1. Conservative Christians who (as a group) have become more active in politics in the last two decades and were especially influential in the 2000 presidential election.
Normal trade relations
Fundamentalists
Natural rights
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
2. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Direct orders must be complied with under threat of criminal or civil sanction. An example is the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 - barring job discrimination by state and local gover
Constitutionalism
Direct orders
Cabinet
Libel
3. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Civil law
Defendant
Federal mandate
Issue advocacy
4. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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5. Period at the beginning of the new president's term during which the president enjoys generally positive relations with the press and Congress - usually lasting about six months.
Opinion of the Court
Special or select committee
Monopoly
Honeymoon
6. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Public choice
Tax expenditure
Hatch Act
Honeymoon
7. The set of arrangements - including checks and balances - federalism - separation of powers - rule of law - due process - and a bill of rights - that requires our leaders to listen - think - bargain - and explain before they act or make laws. We then
Women's suffrage
Union shop
Override
Constitutionalism
8. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Idealism
Policy agenda
Social insurance
Speaker
9. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Political socialization
Mass media
Caucus
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
10. Interest groups organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code may advertise for or against candidates. If their source of funding is corporations or unions - they have some restrictions on broadcast advertising. 527 organizations were impo
527 organizations
Veto
Faction
Soft money
11. 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
Impoundment
Independent expenditure
Dealignment
Fighting words
12. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Midterm election
Bad tendency test
Monetarism
Judicial restraint
13. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Candidate appeal
Impeachment
Commercial speech
Prospective issue voting
14. 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).
Trustee
Commercial speech
Medicare
Poll tax
15. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Majority rule
Safe seat
Special or select committee
Cloture
16. 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
Pluralism
Interest group
Judicial review
17. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Laissez-faire economics
Value-added tax (VAT)
Presidential ticket
Internationalism
18. Domination of an industry by a single company; also the company that dominates the industry.
Fighting words
Issue network
Monopoly
Oversight
19. 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.
Political socialization
Restrictive covenant
Shays's Rebellion
National tide
20. The total amount of money the Federal government has borrowed to finance deficit spending over the years.
Amicus curiae brief
Party convention
Cross-cutting cleavages
National debt
21. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.
Majority rule
Random sample
Executive privilege
Monopoly
22. A permanent committee established in a legislature - usually focusing on a policy area.
Standing committee
Senior Executive Service
Entitlements
Obscenity
23. 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
Executive privilege
Nonprotected speech
Cloture
24. 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.
Cooperative federalism
Patronage
Attentive public
Hatch Act
25. 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.
Government corporation
Docket
Clear and present danger test
Discharge petition
26. 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.
Social capital
Standing committee
National supremacy
Socioeconomic status (SES)
27. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Free exercise clause
Virginia Plan
Linkage institutions
Rule-making process
28. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Economic sanctions
Indexing
Right of expatriation
Photo ops
29. The clause of the Constitution (Article I - Section 8 - Clause 3) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Direct primary
Labor injunction
Vouchers
Commerce clause
30. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Party registration
Deficit
Multilateralism
31. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Idealism
Hard money
Sound bites
Justiciable dispute
32. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Political socialization
Necessary and proper clause
Court of appeals
Reinforcing cleavages
33. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Majority rule
Police powers
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Safe seat
34. The drawing of election districts so as to ensure that members of a certain race are a minority in the district; ruled unconstitutional in Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960).
Indexing
Racial gerrymandering
Search warrant
Initiative
35. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
National tide
Divided government
Substantive due process
Public defender system
36. 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.
Revolving door
Movement
Fiscal federalism
Quid pro quo
37. The number of Americans who are out of work but actively looking for a job. The number does not usually include those who are not looking.
Judicial restraint
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Necessary and proper clause
Unemployment
38. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
Random sample
Constitutional democracy
New Jersey Plan
Trade deficit
39. Court order directing an official to perform an official duty.
Trustee
Closed rule
Writ of mandamus
Libertarianism
40. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Revolving door
Devolution revolution
Due process clause
World Trade Organization (WTO)
41. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Speaker
National supremacy
Line item veto
Safe seat
42. 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.
Clear and present danger test
Public defender system
Federal Reserve System
Poll tax
43. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.
Community policing
Laissez-faire economics
Whip
Judicial activism
44. A minor party dedicated to the environment - social justice - nonviolence - and the foreign policy of nonintervention. Ralph Nader ran as the Green party's nominee in 2000.
Policy agenda
Popular consent
Green party
Social insurance
45. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Enumerated powers
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Marbury v. Madison
Search warrant
46. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Presidential election
Express powers
Monetarism
Independent expenditures
47. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Quid pro quo
Preferred position doctrine
Entitlements
Medicaid
48. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.
Popular consent
Seniority rule
Natural rights
Political predisposition
49. Aid to the poor; 'welfare.'
Public assistance
Monetarism
Multilateralism
Reform party
50. Championed by Ronald Reagan - presumes that the power of the federal government is limited in favor of the broad powers reserved to the states.
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