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1. An international trade organization with more than 130 members - including the United States and the People's Republic of China - that seeks to encourage free trade by lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Override
Monopoly
Take care clause
2. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Policy agenda
Presidential ticket
Marbury v. Madison
Political ideology
3. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Impeachment
Direct primary
Retrospective issue of voting
Midterm election
4. 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
Shays's Rebellion
Earmarks
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Entitlements
5. Unlimited and undisclosed spending by an individual or group on communications that do not use words like 'vote for' or 'vote against -' although much of this activity is actually about electing or defeating candidates.
Merit system
Movement
Natural rights
Issue advocacy
6. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Majority rule
Political socialization
Monetarism
Judicial restraint
7. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership can be a condition of employment.
Proportional representation
Amicus curiae brief
Checks and balances
Closed shop
8. 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.
Sound bites
Eminent domain
Executive agreement
Libertarianism
9. 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
Independent expenditures
Logrolling
Executive privilege
Independent expenditure
10. 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.
Restrictive covenant
Grand jury
De facto segregation
White primary
11. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Writ of certiorari
Decentralists
Whip
Bundling
12. A legal action conferring citizenship on an alien.
Patronage
Naturalization
Dealignment
President pro tempore
13. The list of potential cases that reach the Supreme Court.
Revolving door
Dual citizenship
Bipartisanship
Docket
14. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Divided government
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Democracy
Reinforcing cleavages
15. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
Override
Libertarian party
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Idealism
16. A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights.
Civil law
Executive privilege
Open primary
Property rights
17. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Social insurance
Antitrust legislation
Indexing
Stare decisis
18. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Medical savings account
Political culture
Impoundment
Block grants
19. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.
Impeachment
Initiative
Ex post facto law
National party convention
20. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Mass media
Public opinion
Free exercise clause
Writ of certiorari
21. Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787 - protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out.
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22. Programs such as Medicaid and welfare under which applicants must meet eligibility requirements based on need.
Minor party
Means-tested entitlements
'Our federalism'
Value-added tax (VAT)
23. Advisory council for the president consisting of the heads of the executive departments - the vice president - and a few other officials selected by the president.
Attentive public
Reform party
Cabinet
Total and Partial Preemption
24. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Merit system
amicus curiae brief
The Federalist
Referendum
25. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Treaty
Proportional representation
Veto
Crossover voting
26. 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.
Women's suffrage
Discharge petition
Jim Crow laws
Conservatism
27. Money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Economic sanctions
Soft money
Constitutional democracy
Separation of powers
28. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Independent regulatory commission
Centralists
Conservatism
Policy agenda
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.
Soft money
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
'Necessary and proper' clause
Judicial review
30. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
State's rights
Interest group
The Federalist
Socioeconomic status (SES)
31. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Inherent powers
Docket
Impoundment
Trust
32. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Dual citizenship
Hard power
Majority rule
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
33. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Political ideology
Community policing
National party convention
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
34. 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.
Winner-take-all system
Party identification
Stare decisis
Free exercise clause
35. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Party convention
Bureaucracy
Obscenity
Antitrust legislation
36. A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting.
Social insurance
Majority-minority district
Equal protection clause
Voter registration
37. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Party registration
Policy agenda
Majority-minority district
Commercial speech
38. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Reapportionment
Issue network
Theory of deterrence
De facto segregation
39. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Winner-take-all system
Plurality
Discharge petition
40. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Hard power
Substantive due process
Trust
De facto segregation
41. The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition.
Executive Office of the President
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Marbury v. Madison
Minority leader
42. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Deficit
Confederation
Libel
Regulation
43. A type of policy that takes benefits (usually through taxes) from one group of Americans and gives them to another (usually through spending).
Realism
Women's suffrage
Redistributive policy
Laissez-faire economics
44. Segregation imposed by law.
Economic sanctions
Conference committee
De jure segregation
Joint committee
45. An official who is expected to vote independently based on his or her judgment of the circumstances; one interpretation of the role of the legislator.
Political socialization
Suffrage
Fighting words
Trustee
46. Democratic party primary in the old 'one-party South' that was limited to white people and essentially constituted an election; ruled unconstitutional in Smith v. Allwright (1944).
White primary
Libertarianism
Winner-take-all system
Entitlement programs
47. A provision attached to a bill
Rider
National supremacy
Public assistance
National tide
48. The constitutional requirement (in Article II - Section 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws.
Manifest destiny
Interstate compact
Take care clause
Bicameralism
49. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
'Our federalism'
Eminent domain
Majority
Separation of powers
50. 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.
Public opinion
Issue advocacy
Concurrent powers
Police powers