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1. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Justiciable dispute
Movement
Political ideology
Contract clause
2. 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.
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Redistricting
Right of expatriation
Equal protection clause
3. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Name recognition
Public defender system
Constituents
Prior restraint
4. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Marble cake federalism
Veto
Interested money
World Trade Organization (WTO)
5. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Earmarks
Implied powers
Marbury v. Madison
Retrospective issue of voting
6. 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
State of the Union Address
Crossover voting
527 organizations
Exclusionary rule
7. Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose - such as school lunches or for building airports and highways. These funds are allocated by formula and are subject to detailed federal conditions - often on a matching basis; that is - the local go
Lobbyist
Indexing
Categorical-formula grants
Spoils system
8. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Manifest opinion
Ex post facto law
Mandate
Executive order
9. The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777 - ratified in 1781 - and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.
Veto
Articles of Confederation
Creative federalism
Political socialization
10. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Initiative
Senatorial courtesy
Political culture
Articles of Confederation
11. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Filibuster
Writ of certiorari
Soft money
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
12. 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
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Obscenity
Writ of certiorari
527 organizations
13. 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.
Bad tendency test
Treaty
Cabinet
Appellate jurisdiction
14. These are broad state grants to states for prescribed activities—welfare - child care - education - social services - preventive health care - and health services—with only a few strings attached. States have greater flexibility in deciding how to sp
Block grants
Establishment clause
Administrative discretion
Retrospective issue of voting
15. A national meeting of delegates elected in 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.
Commercial speech
Manifest opinion
National party convention
Writ of habeas corpus
16. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Party registration
Class action suit
Manifest destiny
Obscenity
17. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Decentralists
Defendant
Laissez-faire economics
Sound bites
18. A career government employee.
Direct democracy
Liberalism
Bureaucrat
Selective exposure
19. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Inherent powers
Public assistance
Laissez-faire economics
Closed rule
20. The residents of a congressional district or state.
Constituents
Policy agenda
Political ideology
Preemption
21. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Total and Partial Preemption
Recall
Entitlement programs
Open shop
22. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Central clearance
Popular sovereignty
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Writ of habeas corpus
23. A legal action conferring citizenship on an alien.
Collective action
Sound bites
Naturalization
Selective exposure
24. A jury of 12 to 23 persons who - in private - hear evidence presented by the government to determine whether persons shall be required to stand trial. If the jury believes there is sufficient evidence that a crime was committed - it issues an indictm
Grand jury
Minor party
Medicaid
Soft money
25. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Community policing
Name recognition
Socialism
Rally point
26. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Federalists
Spoils system
Concurring opinion
Policy agenda
27. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
American dream
Protectionism
Quid pro quo
28. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Federalists
Equal protection clause
Unilateralism
Political socialization
29. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Inherent powers
Executive order
Progressive tax
30. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
Delegate
Administrative discretion
Party caucus
Federalists
31. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Political ideology
Isolationism
Medicaid
Writ of habeas corpus
32. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Project grants
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Popular sovereignty
Commercial speech
33. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Manifest destiny
Name recognition
Hatch Act
Constituents
34. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Plea bargain
Articles of Confederation
Faction
Impoundment
35. 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.
Selected perception
Search warrant
Social capital
National supremacy
36. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Race
Natural rights
Dual citizenship
Justiciable dispute
37. Constitutional arrangement in which power is distributed between a central government and subdivisional governments - called states in the United States. The national and the subdivisional governments both exercise direct authority over individuals.
Due process clause
Marbury v. Madison
Federalism
Natural rights
38. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Ethnocentrism
Establishment clause
Commercial speech
National debt
39. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Party identification
Judicial activism
Bad tendency test
Voter registration
40. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
Cross-cutting cleavages
Ex post facto law
Delegate
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
41. An official who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of legislator.
Delegate
Keynesian economics
Safe seat
Property rights
42. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Virginia Plan
Race
Coattail effect
Representative democracy
43. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Executive privilege
Speaker
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Collective bargaining
44. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Antitrust legislation
Interest group
Dealignment
Closed shop
45. 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.
Closed rule
Executive order
Bureaucrat
Cooperative federalism
46. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Monopoly
Central clearance
Adversary system
Environmental impact statement
47. A formal agreement between a U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that acquires approval by both houses of Congress.
Congressional-executive agreement
Impoundment
Hard power
Literacy test
48. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
Inflation
Weapons of mass destruction
Racial profiling
Direct democracy
49. 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.
Commerce clause
Green party
Union shop
Extradition
50. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendments to bills or provides that only members of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments.
Closed rule
Congressional-executive agreement
Representative democracy
President pro tempore