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1. 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
Collective bargaining
Issue advocacy
Primary election
2. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Idealism
Writ of habeas corpus
Affirmative action
Environmental impact statement
3. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Plurality
Demographics
Direct primary
Soft money
4. A minor party that believes in extremely limited government. Libertarians call for a free market system - expanded individual liberties such as drug legalization - and a foreign policy of nonintervention - free trade - and open immigration.
Whip
Override
Presidential election
Libertarian party
5. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that the government cannot interfere with speech unless the speech presents a clear and present danger that it will lead to evil or illegal acts.
Midterm election
Clear and present danger test
Three-fifths compromise
Offshoring
6. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Libel
Australian ballot
'Our federalism'
Executive Office of the President
7. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
De jure segregation
Collective bargaining
Gerrymandering
Caucus
8. 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.
Judicial review
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Cabinet
Substantive due process
9. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Capitalism
Random sample
Judicial restraint
Creative federalism
10. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Majority-minority district
11. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for a more serious offense.
Plea bargain
Quid pro quo
Policy agenda
Candidate appeal
12. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Unitary system
Tax expenditure
Bicameralism
Pocket veto
13. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Conference committee
Turnout
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Bipartisanship
14. 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.
Cooperative federalism
Permissive federalism
Issue network
amicus curiae brief
15. A meeting of the members of a party in a legislative chamber to select party leaders and to develop party policy. Called a conference by the Republicans.
Inflation
Party caucus
Grand jury
Suffrage
16. 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.
Enumerated powers
Single-member district
Linkage institutions
Redistricting
17. Elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of the party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
Plea bargain
'Necessary and proper' clause
Closed rule
Safe seat
18. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Poll tax
Keynesian economics
Manifest destiny
Public policy
19. Presidential staff the agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Concurrent powers
Public policy
Political predisposition
20. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Hatch Act
Cycle of decreasing influence
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Weapons of mass destruction
21. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Majority rule
Uncontrollable spending
Open rule
Progressive tax
22. 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.
The Federalist
Department
Discharge petition
Contract clause
23. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Protectionism
Eminent domain
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
24. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
The Federalist
Pocket veto
News media
Gender gap
25. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Caucus
Unitary system
Executive privilege
Bush Doctrine
26. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
Trade deficit
Articles of Confederation
Soft money
Search warrant
27. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Federal Register
Monetarism
Enumerated powers
Federalists
28. 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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29. Promoting a particular position or an issue paid for by interest groups or individuals but not candidates. Much issue advocacy is often electioneering for or against a candidate - and until 2004 had not been subject to any regulation.
Rider
Seniority rule
Reinforcing cleavages
Issue advocacy
30. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Extradition
Reform party
Department
Necessary and proper clause
31. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Supreme Court has interpreted this to forbid governmental support to any or all religions.
Bundling
Indictment
New Jersey Plan
Establishment clause
32. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Reapportionment
Bicameralism
Realism
33. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Voter registration
Presidential election
Federal mandate
National supremacy
34. Legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one states to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.
Representative democracy
Permissive federalism
Extradition
Multilateralism
35. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for more serious offense.
Manifest opinion
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Plea bargain
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
36. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Faction
Policy agenda
Independent expenditures
Federalists
37. The set of arrangements - including checks and balances - federalism - separation of powers - rule of law - due process - and a bill of rights - that requires our leaders to listen - think - bargain - and explain before they act or make laws. We then
Naturalization
Constitutionalism
Bipartisanship
Pocket veto
38. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Vouchers
Majority
Congressional-executive agreement
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
39. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Separation of powers
Candidate appeal
Oversight
Commercial speech
40. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibiting state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Party registration
Due process clause
Medicaid
Pocket veto
41. 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.
Party convention
Due process clause
Fiscal federalism
Property rights
42. Trade status granted as part of an international trade policy that gives a nation the same favorable trade concessions and tariffs that the best trading partners receive.
Grand jury
Normal trade relations
Green party
Three-fifths compromise
43. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
National party convention
Hard power
Impoundment
Checks and balances
44. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
De facto segregation
Selective exposure
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Eminent domain
45. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Marbury v. Madison
Natural rights
Soft money
Faction
46. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Multilateralism
Ethnicity
Public opinion
Popular sovereignty
47. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Community policing
Selective exposure
Independent agency
Direct primary
48. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Judicial restraint
Executive Office of the President
Medicaid
Minor party
49. A president's claim of broad public support.
Hard power
Mandate
Closed rule
Linkage institutions
50. 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.
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Concurring opinion
Single-member district
Delegate