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1. The presiding officer in the House of Representatives - formally elected by the House but actually selected by the majority party.
Connecticut Compromise
Democracy
Political socialization
Speaker
2. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Congressional-executive agreement
Shays's Rebellion
Popular sovereignty
Party caucus
3. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Monopoly
Manifest destiny
Internationalism
Turnout
4. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Impoundment
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Pluralism
Union shop
5. Presidential custom of submitting the names of prospective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Jim Crow laws
Social capital
Social Security
Senatorial courtesy
6. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Delegate
Laissez-faire economics
Winner-take-all system
Coattail effect
7. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Class action suit
Cabinet
Gender gap
Majority leader
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.
Impeachment
Eminent domain
Libertarian party
Referendum
9. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Adversary system
Hold
Women's suffrage
Environmental impact statement
10. 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).
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Reinforcing cleavages
White primary
Revolving door
11. Quality or state of a work that taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex by depicting sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and that lacks serious literary - artistic - political - or scientific value.
Political action committee (PAC)
Contract clause
Obscenity
Senatorial courtesy
12. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Impeachment
Joint committee
Divided government
Majority
13. The number of Americans who are out of work but actively looking for a job. The number does not usually include those who are not looking.
Search warrant
Obscenity
Unemployment
Issue advocacy
14. The process by which provisions of the bill of rights are brought within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applied to state and local governments.
Judicial activism
Selective incorporation
Honeymoon
Minor party
15. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Affirmative action
Direct primary
Selective exposure
Political ideology
16. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
Retrospective issue of voting
Treaty
Trade deficit
Majority-minority district
17. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Administrative discretion
Free rider
Line item veto
Jim Crow laws
18. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Political predisposition
Constitutional Convention
Bush Doctrine
Whip
19. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Merit system
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Fighting words
Natural law
20. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.
Impeachment
Judicial activism
Electoral college
Faction
21. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Monopoly
Redistricting
Initiative
Dissenting opinion
22. The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition.
Minority leader
Liberalism
Exclusionary rule
Divided government
23. A court order forbidding specific individuals or groups from performing certain acts (such as striking) that the court considers harmful to the rights and property of an employer or community.
Pluralism
Take care clause
Department
Labor injunction
24. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Party identification
Bundling
Closed rule
Race
25. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Rule-making process
Party convention
Ethnocentrism
Winner-take-all system
26. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Separation of powers
Trust
Public opinion
27. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Protectionism
Patronage
Judicial review
Internationalism
28. Segregation imposed by law.
Pluralism
Devolution revolution
De jure segregation
Linkage institutions
29. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Plea bargain
Establishment clause
Government corporation
Veto
30. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
National tide
Indexing
Conservatism
Trustee
31. Aid to the poor; 'welfare.'
Due process clause
Constitutional Convention
Public assistance
Attentive public
32. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Isolationism
Regressive tax
President pro tempore
Impoundment
33. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Public opinion
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Procedural due process
Free exercise clause
34. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Rally point
Dealignment
Gerrymandering
Photo ops
35. A tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
Police powers
Progressive tax
Cross-cutting requirements
Inflation
36. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
Conference committee
Statism
Keynesian economics
Marble cake federalism
37. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
Weapons of mass destruction
Necessary and proper clause
Value-added tax (VAT)
Independent regulatory commission
38. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Judicial activism
Line item veto
Earmarks
Libertarian party
39. Citizenship in more than one nation.
Dual citizenship
Soft money
Socialism
Issue advocacy
40. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Primary election
Democratic consensus
Bipartisanship
Petit jury
41. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Eminent domain
Linkage institutions
Preferred position doctrine
Treaty
42. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.
Chief of staff
Discharge petition
Impeachment
Impoundment
43. Constitutional arrangement in which sovereign nations or states - by compact - create a central government but carefully limit its power and do not give it direct authority over individuals.
Majority leader
Leadership PAC
Medicaid
Confederation
44. A landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States - under Article Three of the United States Constitution. The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury - who had b
Extradition
Marbury v. Madison
Civil law
Mandate
45. Legislative or executive review of a particular government program or organization. Can be in response to a crisis of some kind or part of routine review.
Oversight
Impoundment
amicus curiae brief
Caucus
46. 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.
Green party
Congressional-executive agreement
Decentralists
Discharge petition
47. The total amount of money the Federal government has borrowed to finance deficit spending over the years.
Australian ballot
Party identification
Party registration
National debt
48. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Due process clause
Keynesian economics
Articles of Confederation
Independent expenditures
49. The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue - candidate - or institution within a specific population.
Public opinion
Implementation
Social Security
World Trade Organization (WTO)
50. A decision made by a higher court such as a circuit court of appeals or the Supreme Court that is binding on all other federal courts.
Judicial review
Photo ops
Precedent
Trustee