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1. 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
Prospective issue voting
Antitrust legislation
Political socialization
2. 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.
Regulatory taking
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Inherent powers
Horse race
3. The right of women to vote.
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4. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Senatorial courtesy
Regulation
Natural rights
Line item veto
5. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
Majority-minority district
Administrative discretion
Reinforcing cleavages
Leadership PAC
6. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Faction
Name recognition
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Antitrust legislation
7. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Free rider
Candidate appeal
Deficit
Linkage institutions
8. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
Medical savings account
Interstate compact
State of the Union Address
Ethnicity
9. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals (each limited to $2000) and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Bundling
Photo ops
The Federalist
Theocracy
10. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Inflation
Proportional representation
Right of expatriation
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
11. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.
National supremacy
Closed rule
Central clearance
Impeachment
12. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Majority rule
Coattail effect
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Parliamentary system
13. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Natural rights
Midterm election
Preferred position doctrine
Central clearance
14. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Winner-take-all system
Women's suffrage
Public choice
Sound bites
15. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Deficit
Theocracy
Jim Crow laws
Independent agency
16. 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
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Petit jury
Multilateralism
17. The legislative leader selected by the majority party who helps plan party strategy - confers with other party leaders - and tries to keep members of the party in line.
Cooperative federalism
Closed primary
Federal Reserve System
Majority leader
18. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.
Annapolis Convention
'Our federalism'
Grand jury
Winner-take-all system
19. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Single-member district
Natural rights
Offshoring
Indexing
20. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Rally point
Caucus
Entitlement programs
Tariff
21. 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.
Collective action
Regulatory taking
Green party
Logrolling
22. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.
Safe seat
Writ of habeas corpus
Name recognition
Property rights
23. 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
Direct primary
Grand jury
State's rights
Racial gerrymandering
24. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Bush Doctrine
Creative federalism
Party caucus
Defendant
25. A permanent committee established in a legislature - usually focusing on a policy area.
Obscenity
Judicial review
Standing committee
Leadership PAC
26. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Redistricting
Defendant
Closed shop
Soft money
27. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
Protectionism
Plurality
Dissenting opinion
Filibuster
28. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Due process
Midterm election
Political socialization
Exclusionary rule
29. The inclination to focus on national issues - rather than local issues - in an election campaign. The impact of the national tide can be reduced by the nature of the candidates on the ballot who might have differentiated themselves from their party o
'Necessary and proper' clause
Reapportionment
National tide
Name recognition
30. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Political ideology
Judicial review
Establishment clause
Manifest opinion
31. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Collective bargaining
Bicameralism
De facto segregation
Grand jury
32. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Majority leader
Oversight
Monetarism
Fiscal policy
33. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
Divided government
Fundamentalists
Democracy
34. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Constitutional democracy
Party convention
Minority leader
Criminal law
35. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Popular consent
Natural law
Political socialization
Defendant
36. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Federal mandate
527 organizations
Social insurance
Marbury v. Madison
37. Constitutional grant of powers that enables each of the three branches of government to check some acts of the others and therefore ensure that no branch can dominate.
Checks and balances
Criminal law
Independent agency
Bad tendency test
38. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Independent agency
Merit system
Opinion of the Court
Affirmative action
39. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Economic sanctions
Racial profiling
Affirmative action
amicus curiae brief
40. A national meeting of delegates elected at 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.
Medicaid
Administrative discretion
Judicial review
National party convention
41. Primary election in which any voter - regardless of party - may vote.
Random sample
Excise tax
Open primary
Public assistance
42. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Medical savings account
President pro tempore
Regulations
43. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Party identification
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Implied powers
Proportional representation
44. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.
National party convention
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Public assistance
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
45. The authority of a court to hear a case 'in the first instance.'
Original jurisdiction
Executive order
Multilateralism
Green party
46. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Party identification
Concurrent powers
Government corporation
Right of expatriation
47. Tax required to vote; prohibited for national elections by the Twenty-Fourth Amendment (1964) and ruled unconstitutional for all elections in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966).
Electoral college
Public policy
Poll tax
Cloture
48. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Articles of Confederation
Public defender system
Indexing
Poll tax
49. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
Regulations
Regressive tax
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Competitive federalism
50. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Conservatism
Bicameralism
Political socialization
Rider
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