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1. 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.
President pro tempore
Value-added tax (VAT)
Safe seat
National party convention
2. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Gerrymandering
527 organizations
Express powers
Closed shop
3. 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.
Deficit
Recall
Virginia Plan
Turnout
4. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
Conference committee
Mass media
Antifederalists
Search warrant
5. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Popular consent
Equal protection clause
Regulatory taking
Ethnocentrism
6. The authority of a court to hear a case 'in the first instance.'
Caucus
Centralists
Original jurisdiction
Open shop
7. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
Candidate appeal
Implied powers
Popular sovereignty
Devolution revolution
8. A president's claim of broad public support.
Mandate
Green party
Creative federalism
Party identification
9. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Petit jury
Implied powers
Issue advocacy
Party convention
10. 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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11. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Entitlement programs
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
12. 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.
Civil disobedience
Public assistance
Social Security
White primary
13. Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergird them.
Democratic consensus
Express powers
Plea bargain
Political party
14. Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials - especially legislators - and the policies they enact.
Lobbying
Closed shop
De jure segregation
National party convention
15. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect the public health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
Establishment clause
Police powers
Adversary system
Unilateralism
16. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Free rider
Lobbying
Party registration
Issue network
17. Programs that the Federal government requires States to implement without Federal funding.
Constitutional Convention
Presidential election
Articles of Confederation
Unfunded mandates
18. 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.
Executive order
Gerrymandering
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Exclusionary rule
19. The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census - to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population.
Community policing
Natural rights
Executive privilege
Redistricting
20. 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.
Reform party
Protectionism
Offshoring
Honeymoon
21. A small political party that rises and falls with a charismatic candidate or - if composed of ideologies on the right or left - usually persists over time; also called a third party.
Safe seat
Minor party
Judicial review
Liberalism
22. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Candidate appeal
Gerrymandering
Inherent powers
Retrospective issue of voting
23. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Discharge petition
Gender gap
Decentralists
Antitrust legislation
24. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Preemption
Independent expenditure
Proportional representation
Issue network
25. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Divided government
Entitlement programs
Reapportionment
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
26. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
Crossover sanctions
527 organizations
Regulations
Bush Doctrine
27. A provision attached to a bill
Rule
Rider
Isolationism
National party convention
28. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Inherent powers
Labor injunction
Petit jury
Natural rights
29. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Parliamentary system
Fundamentalists
Conservatism
Gerrymandering
30. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect what the framers intended and what its words literally say.
Confederation
Suffrage
Judicial restraint
Cooperative federalism
31. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Due process
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Weapons of mass destruction
Public defender system
32. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 3) setting forth the implied powers of Congress. It states that Congress - in addition to its express powers has the right to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out all powers the Co
Necessary and proper clause
Constitutionalism
Normal trade relations
Pluralism
33. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
Community policing
Selected perception
Closed primary
Seniority rule
34. An opinion disagreeing with a majority in a Supreme Court ruling.
Restrictive covenant
Earmarks
Checks and balances
Dissenting opinion
35. A legislative practice that assigns the chair of the committee or subcommittee to the member of the majority party with the longest continuous service on the committee.
Constitutional democracy
Hard money
National party convention
Seniority rule
36. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
Take care clause
Honeymoon
Socialism
Racial profiling
37. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Closed shop
Keynesian economics
News media
Judicial review
38. 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.
National debt
Full faith and credit clause
Court of appeals
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
39. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Green party
Permissive federalism
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Natural law
40. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
National debt
Vouchers
Eminent domain
Representative democracy
41. Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
Rule
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Demographics
Unitary system
42. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Issue advocacy
Entitlement programs
Keynesian economics
Writ of habeas corpus
43. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Popular sovereignty
Random sample
Due process clause
Devolution revolution
44. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and to cooperate. The term has many applications in the various social sciences such as political science - sociology - and
Redistricting
Collective action
Impoundment
Direct democracy
45. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Majority
Override
National party convention
Earmarks
46. 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.
Department
Regulation
Environmental impact statement
Restrictive covenant
47. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Regressive tax
Leadership PAC
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Proportional representation
48. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Bureaucracy
National party convention
Crossover voting
Uncontrollable spending
49. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Political socialization
Antitrust legislation
Primary election
Fiscal federalism
50. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government - promoting a free market economy - a noninterventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in moral - economic - and social life.
Libertarianism
Public policy
Issue advocacy
Interested money