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1. 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.'
Original jurisdiction
Racial gerrymandering
Permissive federalism
Regulatory taking
2. 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.
Commerce clause
Issue advocacy
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Executive agreement
3. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Creative federalism
amicus curiae brief
Joint committee
4. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Shays's Rebellion
Treaty
Speaker
5. A national meeting of delegates elected at primaries - caucuses - or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president - ratify the party platform - elect officers - and adopt rules.
National party convention
Manifest destiny
Natural law
Tax expenditure
6. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
Redistricting
Divided government
Libertarian party
Monetary policy
7. Programs such as Medicaid and welfare under which applicants must meet eligibility requirements based on need.
Precedent
Medicare
Means-tested entitlements
Independent expenditure
8. Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly.
Issue network
Medical savings account
Political party
Direct democracy
9. Government regulation of property so extensive that government is deemed to have taken the property by the power of eminent domain - for which it must compensate the property owners.
Regulatory taking
Justiciable dispute
Interested money
Australian ballot
10. A minor party that believes in extremely limited government. Libertarians call for a free market system - expanded individual liberties such as drug legalization - and a foreign policy of nonintervention - free trade - and open immigration.
Party registration
Speaker
Libertarian party
Issue advocacy
11. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
Indictment
Honeymoon
Cycle of decreasing influence
Hard money
12. Programs that the Federal government requires States to implement without Federal funding.
Plurality
Unfunded mandates
Due process
Laissez-faire economics
13. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Pluralism
Block grants
Turnout
Soft money
14. 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.
Bundling
Presidential election
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Weapons of mass destruction
15. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Majority
Candidate appeal
Mass media
Social insurance
16. A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of camp
Issue network
Majority rule
Minor party
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
17. 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.
Independent regulatory commission
Popular consent
Delegate
Issue advocacy
18. Domination of an industry by a single company; also the company that dominates the industry.
Social Security
Regulatory taking
Monopoly
Petit jury
19. 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.
Policy agenda
Judicial review
Laissez-faire economics
Movement
20. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Public defender system
Plurality
Double jeopardy
Public opinion
21. Exemption from prosecution for a particular crime in return for testimony pertaining to the case.
Excise tax
Commerce clause
Gender gap
Immunity
22. 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.
Marble cake federalism
Commerce clause
Reinforcing cleavages
Environmental impact statement
23. Constitutional division of powers among the legislative - executive - and judicial branches - with the legislative branch making law - the executive applying and enforcing the law - and the judiciary interpreting the law.
Closed shop
Medical savings account
Independent expenditure
Separation of powers
24. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Party convention
Unilateralism
Candidate appeal
Direct orders
25. 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
Bill of attainder
Federal Reserve System
Free rider
26. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Congressional-executive agreement
Linkage institutions
Full faith and credit clause
Class action suit
27. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
Reinforcing cleavages
Multilateralism
Democratic consensus
Soft money
28. The difference between the political opinions or political behavior of men and of women.
Annapolis Convention
Clear and present danger test
Gender gap
Revolving door
29. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Demographics
Three-fifths compromise
Prospective issue voting
Constitutional Convention
30. The president's annual statement to Congress and the nation.
State of the Union Address
Administrative discretion
Unitary system
Independent regulatory commission
31. The rule of precedent - whereby a rule or law contained in a judicial decision is commonly viewed as binding on judges whenever the same question is presented.
Deregulation
Cooperative federalism
Express powers
Stare decisis
32. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Impeachment
Normal trade relations
De jure segregation
Majority rule
33. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Closed shop
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Lobbyist
Antitrust legislation
34. A system of government in which the legislature selects the prime minister or president.
Open primary
Prior restraint
Weapons of mass destruction
Parliamentary system
35. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Monetarism
Liberalism
Decentralists
36. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Political party
Democracy
Tax expenditure
Issue network
37. Segregation imposed by law.
Winner-take-all system
New Jersey Plan
Open rule
De jure segregation
38. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Defendant
Class action suit
Appellate jurisdiction
Divided government
39. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Articles of Confederation
Issue advocacy
Judicial restraint
Express powers
40. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.
Sound bites
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Virginia Plan
Concurring opinion
41. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Defendant
Caucus
Justiciable dispute
Veto
42. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Party registration
Substantive due process
Representative democracy
Unemployment
43. 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
Articles of Confederation
Suffrage
Crossover sanctions
Public choice
44. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Community policing
Minority leader
President pro tempore
Presidential ticket
45. Employment cycle in which individuals who work for governmental agencies that regulate interests eventually end up working for interest groups or businesses with the same policy concern.
Regulations
Revolving door
Class action suit
Public assistance
46. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Veto
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Marble cake federalism
Antitrust legislation
47. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
National tide
Opinion of the Court
Patronage
Political ideology
48. Constitutional requirement that governments proceed by proper methods; limits how government may exercise power.
Uncontrollable spending
Procedural due process
Impeachment
Implementation
49. Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents.
Monetary policy
Dealignment
Pocket veto
Parliamentary system
50. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Department
Uncontrollable spending
Bicameralism
Green party