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AP Government
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1. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national governments power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity. Building on this constitutional authority - f
Total and Partial Preemption
Delegate
Crossover voting
Political ideology
2. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Civil disobedience
Pocket veto
Marble cake federalism
Constituents
3. 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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4. Court order directing an official to perform an official duty.
Coattail effect
Writ of mandamus
Joint committee
Quid pro quo
5. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment.
Manifest opinion
Australian ballot
Lobbying
Open shop
6. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Trust
Issue network
Grand jury
amicus curiae brief
7. A theory of international relations that focuses on the tendency of nations to operate from self-interest.
Realism
Bureaucracy
Open primary
Bad tendency test
8. 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.
Seniority rule
Single-member district
Caucus
Override
9. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
Party identification
The Federalist
Theory of deterrence
Value-added tax (VAT)
10. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Independent expenditures
Prospective issue voting
Grand jury
Plea bargain
11. Powers that grow out of the very existence of government.
Inherent powers
Bureaucrat
Shays's Rebellion
Race
12. 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
Bicameralism
Federal Reserve System
Adversary system
13. The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777 - ratified in 1781 - and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.
Sound bites
Articles of Confederation
Express powers
Confederation
14. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
Entitlements
Cabinet
Cycle of decreasing influence
Treaty
15. Segregation imposed by law.
De jure segregation
Race
Mandate
Trust
16. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Candidate appeal
Medicare
Deregulation
Direct democracy
17. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Political action committee (PAC)
White primary
Fundamentalists
Veto
18. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Bundling
Political culture
Dual citizenship
President pro tempore
19. A veto exercised by the president after Congress has adjourned; if the president takes no action for 10 days - the bill does not become law and does not return to Congress for possible override.
Open shop
Pocket veto
Federalists
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
20. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Referendum
Executive Office of the President
Bureaucracy
Fighting words
21. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.
Medical savings account
Direct primary
Political action committee (PAC)
Literacy test
22. Formal orders issued by the president to direct action by the Federal bureaucracy.
Executive orders
Pluralism
Regulation
Environmental impact statement
23. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Demographics
Isolationism
Vouchers
Concurring opinion
24. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
Direct orders
Parliamentary system
amicus curiae brief
Deregulation
25. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Naturalization
Plurality
National party convention
Offshoring
26. 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).
Articles of Confederation
Constitutionalism
White primary
Political culture
27. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Immunity
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Representative democracy
Full faith and credit clause
28. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Due process clause
Independent expenditure
Indexing
Monopoly
29. 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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30. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Executive agreement
Natural rights
Closed primary
Permissive federalism
31. Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. By interpretation - the Fifth Amendment imposes the same limitation on the national government. This clause is t
Isolationism
Federal mandate
Sound bites
Equal protection clause
32. The tendency in elections to focus on the personal attributes of a candidate - such as his/her strengths - weaknesses - background - experience - and visibility.
Hold
Naturalization
Candidate appeal
Sedition
33. A provision attached to a bill
Rider
Direct primary
Reapportionment
Executive privilege
34. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Criminal law
Proportional representation
Natural law
Issue advocacy
35. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Realigning election
Federalism
Trust
Nonpartisan election
36. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Speaker
Standing committee
Keynesian economics
Political ideology
37. 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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38. 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.
Judicial activism
Preferred position doctrine
Regulatory taking
Isolationism
39. 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).
Selected perception
Racial gerrymandering
Government corporation
Capitalism
40. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
National party convention
Hold
Permissive federalism
Natural rights
41. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Coattail effect
Labor injunction
Political action committee (PAC)
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
42. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Divided government
Libel
Commerce clause
Random sample
43. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Voter registration
Winner-take-all system
Proportional representation
Bundling
44. The total amount of money the Federal government has borrowed to finance deficit spending over the years.
Bad tendency test
Trustee
National debt
National supremacy
45. 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.
Stare decisis
Decentralists
Affirmative action
Oversight
46. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or a government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Quid pro quo
Redistricting
Decentralists
Judicial review
47. Assigning police to neighborhoods where they walk the beat and work with churches and other community groups to reduce crime and improve relations with minorities.
Criminal law
Pocket veto
Standing committee
Community policing
48. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Political socialization
Delegate
Independent expenditures
Logrolling
49. The right of women to vote.
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50. Means of communication that are reaching the public - including newspapers and magazines - radio - television (broadcast - cable - and satellite) - films - recordings - books - and electronic communication.
Executive privilege
Administrative discretion
Literacy test
Mass media